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Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media
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In this article, the authors present a framework that defines social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups, and explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media.About:
This article is published in Business Horizons.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 3073 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & User-generated content.read more
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A Meta-Analysis of Social Networking Online and Social Capital:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the relationship between social network site (SNS) use and two types of social capital: bridging social capital and bonding social capital, and found that SNS use promotes social capital by facilitating contact and interaction among people who already know each other offline rather than contact with people who were met online.
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Garbage in, Garbage Out: Data Collection, Quality Assessment and Reporting Standards for Social Media Data Use in Health Research, Infodemiology and Digital Disease Detection
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for the filtering and quality evaluation of social data that addresses several common challenges and moves toward establishing a standard of reporting social data is set forth.
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Corporations and Citizenship Arenas in the Age of Social Media
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of social media in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has been highlighted through utilizing the notion of "citizenship arenas" to identify three dynamics in social media-augmented corporate-society relations.
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Social media use by community-based organizations conducting health promotion: a content analysis
TL;DR: Much of the use of social media tools appeared to be uni-directional, a flow of information from the organization to the audience, which can help community-based organizations reap greater benefits from the non-trivial investment required to use social media well.
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The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review
TL;DR: Social media has the ability to facilitate disease surveillance, mass communication, health education, knowledge translation, and collaboration amongst health providers in low- and middle-income countries.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
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Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media
TL;DR: A classification of Social Media is provided which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds.
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The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
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