Overcoming the "Ideology of Openness": Probing the Affordances of Social Media for Organizational Knowledge Sharing

By Jennifer L. Gibbs, Nik Ahmad Rozaidi, Julia Eisenberg. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2013

350 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/23e12e35eed368bd80dad42b2bab39f837380496

How researchers see this paper

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In Communication

1. Paul M. Leonardi
2. Jennifer L. Gibbs
3. Emmanuelle Vaast
4. Jessica Vitak
5. Ward van Zoonen
6. Nicole B. Ellison
7. Joost W. M. Verhoeven
8. Rens Vliegenthart

In Information Systems and Management

1. Paul M. Leonardi
2. Emmanuelle Vaast
3. Nicole B. Ellison
4. Jeffrey William Treem
5. Jennifer L. Gibbs
6. Ward van Zoonen

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Paul M. Leonardi
2. Nicole B. Ellison
3. Jennifer L. Gibbs
4. Jessica Vitak
5. Emmanuelle Vaast
6. Matthew S. Weber
7. Jeffrey William Treem
8. Ward van Zoonen

Citations in the corpus

• Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “In a study looking at how workers in a technology organization used social communication technologies, Gibbs et al. (2013) found that the same technology afforded different levels of visibility, and this influenced behaviors in relation to when they were available to colleagues, their engagement in…”
• Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, positive): “Gibbs et al. (2013) demonstrated that as employees in a globally distributed organization became more aware of what their coworkers were doing and with whom they communicated, they realized that other people were watching them in the same way.”
• Understanding the consequences of public social media use for work (2017, background): “Finally, the relationship between (enterprise) social media use in the workplace and impression management (Gibbs et al., 2013), knowledge-sharing (Gibbs et al., 2013; Treem & Leonardi, 2012), boundary conflicts (Ollier-Malaterre et al., 2013), and workperformance (Leftheriotis & Giannakos, 2014)…”
• The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations (2015, background): “For instance, Gibbs et al. (2013) found that employees strategically managed tensions of visibility versus invis-ibility, engagement versus disengagement, and sharing versus control in social media use in a way that preserved both openness and ambiguity.”