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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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The Predictive Power of Social Media: On the Predictability of U.S. Presidential Elections using Twitter.
Kazem Jahanbakhsh,Yumi Moon +1 more
TL;DR: The results aptly suggest that Twitter as a well-known social medium is a valid source in predicting future events such as elections, which implies that understanding public opinions and trends via social media in turn allows us to propose a cost- and time-effective way not only for spreading and sharing information, but also for predicting future Events.
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Social media use in pre-trip planning by tourists visiting a small regional leisure destination
Anja Pabel,Bruce Prideaux +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a better understanding of the use of social media in tourism pre-trip information search patterns for small regional leisure destinations and found that social media was important for 27.9% of respondents when searching for information about their upcoming trip.
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Social media based value creation and business models
TL;DR: This study offers detailed descriptions and analyses of the major social media mechanisms affecting how value is created in social media-based value networks and the kinds of impact social media can have on present and future business models.
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Refuting fake news on social media: nonprofits, crisis response strategies and issue involvement
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effectiveness of crisis response strategies of denial and attack in addressing rumors about consumer privacy when non-profit organizations are targeted on social media and found that issue involvement plays a key role in message perceptions of false information regarding consumer privacy in social media.
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No Reciprocity in "Liking" Photos: Analyzing Like Activities in Instagram
TL;DR: An analysis of the structural, influential, and contextual aspects of Like activities from the test datasets of 20 million users and their 2 billion Like activities in Instagram highlights that Like activities and networks increase exponentially, and are formed and developed by one's friends and many random users.
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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
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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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