Global Village or Cyber-Balkans? Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities

By Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Erik Brynjolfsson. Management Sciences, 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Strategy and Management

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Enabling Customer-Centricity Using Wikis and the Wiki Way (2006, background): “Just as too much information leads to overload [32] and too much filtering leads to balkanization rather than collaboration [38], the six propositions taken to their extreme may lead to less knowledge creation rather than more.”
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, unknown): “The production of an online echo chamber can potentially lead to lower integration of knowledge across disparate communities (Van Alstyne & Brynjolfsson, 2005).”
The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off1 (2011, unknown): “Actors with scarce information in a given network neighborhood are better positioned to broker opportunities, make better decisions, and apply information to problems that are intractable given local knowledge (e.g., Hargadon and Sutton 1997; Reagans and Zuckerman 2001; Burt 2004; Rodan and Gallunic”
Recommender systems: from algorithms to user experience (2012, background): “Recommenders can exacerbate cyber-balkanization, by making it even easier for people to find the information, people, and products they are most comfortable with (Van Alstyne and Brynjolfsson 2005).”
Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations (2013, background): “The potential balkanizing effects of the Internet have been examined in diverse arenas, including political behavior (Sunstein, 2009), entertainment choices (Pariser, 2011), and even science (Van Alstyne & Brynjolfsson, 2005).”
Toward a theory of network gatekeeping: A framework for exploring information control (2008, background): “…(Donohue et al., 1972; Gieber, 1956; Lawrence & Giles, 1999; Lewin, 1951; Shoemaker et al., 2001; Singer & Gonzalez-Valez, 2003; Snider, 1967; Van Alstyne & Brynjolfsson, 2005; Wang & Benbasat, 2005; Westley & MacLean, 1957; White, 1950) Addition Joining or uniting information (Introna &…”
Blockbuster Culture's Next Rise or Fall: The Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity (2009, background): “Van Alstyne and Brynjolfsson (2005) find that although increased integration can result, the Internet can also lead to greater balkanization, wherein groups with similar interests find each other.”
Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems (2011, background): “Societally, this balkanization can decrease communication and interactions between groups of people [147].”