Social Media Definition and the Governance Challenge: An Introduction to the Special Issue

By Jonathan A. Obar, S. Wildman. 2015

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Logistics 4.0: a systematic review towards a new logistics system (2019, background): “Social media as defined by Obar and Wildman (2015) consists of four characteristics: (1) Internet-based applications, (2) user-generated content (3) user-specific profiles for apps of social media services, and (4) the development of social networks online of individuals and/or groups.”
• Share, like, twitter, and connect: Ecological momentary assessment to examine the relationship between non-work social media use at work and work engagement (2018, background): “However, some scholars have called for a more precise definition of social media or for a clear-cut distinction between social media and social networks (e.g. Edosomwan, Prakasan, Kouame, Watson, & Seymour, 2011; Obar & Wildman, 2015).”