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Jan 1, 2014 · Social media is a term used to describe and refer to internet-based forms of interactive participation platforms, which allow users to stay in touch with friends and different...
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1. What is social media? Social media is as a set of software and web tools that help users interact online, share content and develop a personalised network of friends, colleagues or organisations. Every individual uses their network differently, and there are no set rules about what is ‘right’ for each site. However, the key word here is ...
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McKinsey Explainers. What is social media? Social media comprises the applications and websites that allow people to interact with other users, businesses, communities, and content. June 2023. You probably already know what social media is.
Understanding Social Media attempts to engage with some of these complex debates about the definitions of social media. We reflect upon the differences between SNSs and social media and how the rise in devices such as smartphones and locative media services such as Facebook Places, Google Maps, and Foursquare are changing the fabric of social ...
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- 2.1.1 Social Media Functionalities
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- 2.2.1 What is social media?
- 2.2.2 What is “in-house” social media?
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This developmental paper is flagging up the issue of insufficiently clear definition of two contemporary concepts: social media and enterprise social media. Drawing on the findings from empirical case studies, differences in users’ perceptions of what is and is not social media are highlighted. These are juxtaposed with extant definitions from IS l...
One of the approaches to identify “social media” is to describe the functionalities of a given platform and application in terms of essential “social” properties. (Kietzmann et al., 2011) specify seven functional building blocks of Social Media which are present to greater or lesser extent any social media application and which can be substituted ...
Social Media use in the context of Human Resource Management (HRM) was investigated in a comparative case study conducted in three large organisations in the UK. Traditionally, HR communications were one-way top-down communications with limited feedback mechanisms. In the case organisations employee feedback would be sought and collected through (b...
The three organisations use a variety of tools – in-house built applications, on-premise applications and web-bases tool, to communicate, share information and connect employees and managers. Some of the applications were used in all organisations, others were organisation specific (Table 1). Legend p = for personal purpose w = for work purpose x...
Some interviewees in each of the organisations made explicit differentiation of using social media platforms for private and professional purposes. Some of the platforms were stated to be used internally, others only externally, however the boundaries of some platforms were blurred. This realization in parts supports findings from other research wh...
Comparing definitions and focus of current IS literature on social media with the perceptions and definitions of social media and personal/professional use of these IT there are possible questions which deserve academic attention. One question is whether our current (set of) definition(s) for what is “social media” allows us to adequately identify ...
Jan 1, 2018 · Social media are defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content” (Kaplan and Haenlein 2010, p. 61).
Social media are defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan and Haenlein 2010, ” p. 61).
