Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association

By Jeffrey William Treem, Paul M. Leonardi. 2013

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations (2013, positive): “Visibility is tied to the amount of effort people must expend to locate information (Treem & Leonardi, 2012).”
Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom" (2015, positive): “2012) and organizational and information systems theorists (Jarrahi and Sawyer 2013; Kane et al. 2014; Majchrzak et al. 2013; Treem and Leonardi 2012) that enterprise social media may play a key role in helping companies to more effectively share knowledge among their workers.”
The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes (2019, neutral): “Different types of digital affordances might operate or assume relevance at different levels—for example, affordances associated with social media may hold implications for different types of actors (individuals, organizations, and communities) in different innovation (use) contexts (e.g., Cabiddu e”
Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, and Multimediality (2015, neutral): “describe how technologies such as social media (Majchrzak et al., 2013; Treem & Leonardi, 2012) and social network sites (boyd, 2010) alter communication.”
Self‐Disclosure in Social Media: Extending the Functional Approach to Disclosure Motivations and Characteristics on Social Network Sites (2014, positive): “Functional model of self-disclosure on SNSs Media affordances and audiences on SNSs According to Treem and Leonardi (2012), social media affordances reflect users’ perceptions of media utility in supporting social practices.”
Understanding the consequences of public social media use for work (2017, positive): “The first stream of research focuses on social media affordances, examining how the use of social media shapes the way people communicate with one another (e.g., Treem & Leonardi, 2012; Gibbs et al., 2013).”
The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age: Introduction (2016, positive): “Recently, Treem and Leonardi (2012) analyzed the large corpus of articles written about how people use digital technologies (social media in particular) in the workplace.”
Feeling Authentic on Social Media: Subjective Authenticity Across Instagram Stories and Posts (2021, positive): “Editability describes whether a message can be altered as the communicator desires before sending it (Treem & Leonardi, 2013, p. 159; Walther, 1996).”
Overcoming the "Ideology of Openness": Probing the Affordances of Social Media for Organizational Knowledge Sharing (2013, positive): “Treem and Leonardi (2012) propose four unique affordances of social media in organizations: visibility and association (of content and people), as well as persistence and editability (of content).”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, neutral): “For example, Treem and Leonardi (2012) identify persistence , the fact that in social media the contents are usually available to users and do not expire or disappear when the user logs out, as an affordance.”
Social Media as Social Lubricant (2015, positive): “…in organizations, including knowledge seekers, use multiple media to improve relationships and develop knowledge (Haythornthwaite, 2002), but instead supports the idea that successful outcomes arise when communication media support the task at hand (Daft & Lengel, 1986; Treem & Leonardi, 2012).”