What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda

By Gerald C. Kane, Maryam Alavi, Guiseppe, Joe Labianca, Stephen P. Borgatti. MIS Q., 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations (2015, background): “…should consider these affordances with more specificity, acknowledging that social media are not monolithic and encompass a range of technologies (Kane, Alavi, Labianca, & Borgatti, 2014), and that various applications (e.g., wikis, ESNSs, social tagging, and rater or recommender tools) may…”
Toward Meaningful Engagement: A Framework for Design and Research of Gamified Information Systems (2017, methodology): “This research would benefit from other literature such as the design of online communications (e.g., Li et al. 2012), user-generated content platforms (e.g., Kane et al. 2014), and prosocial charitable giving (e.g., Ariely et al. 2009).”
Social Media and Their Affordances for Organizing: A Review and Agenda for Research (2017, positive): “…employees' interests and expertise more visible to others, and by enabling linkages among like-minded people, social media can foster the creation of communities of practice considered critical to organizational innovation, learning, and knowledge sharing (Aral et al., 2013; Kane et al., 2014b).”
Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom" (2015, background): “…through which dyadic communication can be seen, stored, and added to by anyone in the organization, thereby making it possible for third-parties to learn vicariously from the communication occurring amongst their colleagues (Kane et al. 2014; Majchrzak et al. 2013; Treem and Leonardi 2012).”