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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 motives framework of social media website use: A survey of young Americans
TL;DR: This work extends previous research by evaluating the underlying structure of social media website usage motivations using a 13 item survey and evaluations from 19 different social media websites administered to 1686 young Americans, uncovering 2 major motive dimensions underlying social mediaWebsite use: fun-related and content-specific.
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Style in the Age of Instagram: Predicting Success within the Fashion Industry using Social Media
TL;DR: The framework successfully predicts most of the new popular models who appeared in 2015 and finds that a strong social media presence may be more important than being under contract with a top agency, or than the aesthetic standards sought after by the industry.
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Click here to agree: Managing intellectual property when crowdsourcing solutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the risks associated with using crowdsourcing solutions and present four approaches for managing intellectual property (passive, possessive, persuasive, and prudent) in the context of crowdsourcing.
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Harnessing social media data for pharmacovigilance: a review of current state of the art, challenges and future directions
TL;DR: The present paper explores the state of the art in the application of social data to adverse drug reaction detection; provides a thorough review of existing work in the field, highlighting important research efforts and achievements; and discusses the current challenges and promising avenues for future work.
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Digital channels diminish SME barriers: the case of the UK
TL;DR: The usage of digital channels by UK small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is investigated and the impact caused on their strategic marketing position is assessed and a novel insight into strategic literature for SMEs is opened up.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah boyd,Nicole B. Ellison +1 more
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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.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of complex knowledge to explain the role of weak links in sharing knowledge across organization subunits.
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The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed and analyzed the emerging network paradigm in organizational research and developed a set of dimensions along which network studies vary, including direction of causality, levels of analysis, explanatory goals, and explanatory mechanisms.