Motivations for social networking at work

By Joan Morris DiMicco, David R. Millen, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, Beth Brownholtz, Michael J. Muller. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Social media recommendation based on people and tags (2010, background): “Similarly to their counterparts on the web, enterprise social media sites also face challenges stemming from a continuously growing number of applications and the expanding volumes of information within them [8,11].”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “pany network, allowing employees to get to know coworkers, seek collaborators, or position themselves for advancement (DiMicco et al., 2008).”
Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository (2012, background): “Previous work on social media for work purposes has shown that systems like Facebook and LinkedIn are useful for maintaining weak tie relationships and bridging organizational boundaries [6, 21].”
Distilling the Outcomes of Personal Experiences: A Propensity-scored Analysis of Social Media (2017, background): “People do this for many reasons [30, 51, 57, 71, 74]: keeping in touch with friends, gaining social capital, or even helping others.”
Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and Instant Messaging (2010, neutral): “In our review of the SNS literature, we were able to identify only a few studies examining gratifi-cations obtained (e.g., DiMicco et al., 2008; Joinson, 2008), but no study had examined the motivations for joining.”
Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace (2010, methodology): “We know from existing research that workplace use of publicly available technologies differ from use of proprietary versions of such tools (DiMicco et al. 2008; Efimova and Copyright © 2010, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org).”
Bowling online: social networking and social capital within the organization (2009, background): “This opens the possibility of making connections in the future, either through the site or elsewhere [12, 14].”
LibRA (2019, neutral): “In fact, many companies already provide their employees with internal social media platforms [36], online engagement forums, or even email profile description spaces, where they can regularly update their self-explained expertise and role descriptions, along with manager or peer-appraised testimonia”
Using social media for work: Losing your time or improving your work? (2014, background): “For example, there have been studies on the use of blogging software (Liao, Pan, Zhou, & Gan, 2012), social bookmarking tools (Millen, Feinberg, & Kerr, 2006), wikis within the boundaries of an intranet (Grudin & Poole, 2010), enterprise forums, micro-blogging (Riemer & Richter, 2010), and social ne”
What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda (2014, background): “Organizational application of social media will likely cultivate greater interest in and need for strategic networking at multiple levels, leading to greater use of information about network structure (DiMicco et al. 2008; Weng et al. 2010).”
Human-AI Collaboration in Data Science (2019, methodology): “In order to build the understanding of data scientist work practices and their views on AutoAI in the real-world business setting, we conducted semi-structured interviews (following research method in [9, 28]) with data scientists (N=20) who conduct data science tasks as their primary job function a”
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing (2013, neutral): “12030”
Make new friends, but keep the old: recommending people on social networking sites (2009, methodology): “For more details about activity on the site and various motivations for employees to participate in social networking in the enterprise see [3].”
A longitudinal study of Facebook, LinkedIn, & Twitter use (2012, background): “Absent also are privacy concerns that arise with public sites [3].”
Motivations for sharing information and social support in social media: A comparative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr (2015, background): “In work environments, the reasons that employees would like to be connected, use, and share their personal and professional contents via social media have been examined (DiMicco et al., 2008).”
Towards Decision Support and Goal Achievement: Identifying Action-Outcome Relationships From Social Media (2015, background): “With the wide-spread adoption of social networking services over the last 10-15 years, much research has focused on understanding people’s motivations and participatory behavior on these sites, both from a qualitative as well as quantitative perspective [27, 14, 19, 21, 13, 32, 26, 36, 6, 42].”
Social Media as Social Lubricant (2015, background): “Studies of social media use within organizations (and of social networking sites in particular) largely explore the profile of people’s social networks created and maintained on enterprise social networking sites (DiMicco et al., 2008), the way that these technologies promote collaboration on projec”