DANCING WITH THE PARADOX — SOCIAL MEDIA IN INNOVATION THROUGH COMPLEXITY LENS

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550014 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRI JALONEN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Complexity Thinking ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Ways Of Being

This paper discusses the social media paradox in the context of innovation. Innovation is defined as a knowledge intensive process of seeing and doing things differently, whereas social media refers to new ways of being connected. Social media has revolutionised the ways how knowledge is produced, shared and accumulated through social interactions within the organisation and across the organisation's boundaries. From an organisational perspective, this raises the question of how social media influences — enabling or inhibiting — its ability to see and do things differently. Social media offers tempting opportunities but also poses new threats. It is a paradox involving contradictory forces. Despite growing interest among academics, there is a lack of understanding of the possibilities of social media in the specific context of innovation. This paper fills the research gap by arguing that complexity concepts offer a new type of language to understand social media. Seeing interaction as intrinsic to innovation activity, complexity thinking opens the paradox of being in charge but not in control.

Evaluating the Social Media Usage Pattern Among the Hearing Impaired and Visually Impaired Students at University of Tabuk.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
pp. 5840-5851
Author(s):  
SAHAR ZAIEN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Usage Pattern ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visually Impaired Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media is a modern innovation for effective communication. Researchers are investigating a useful framework to integrate social media in an educational setting of deaf and blind students. Deaf or hearing impaired and visually impaired people have poor communication skills that cause lowered social interactions and make them feel isolated. The current study aimed at evaluating the social media usage pattern among the deaf or hard of hearing and visually impaired students. The findings revealed that the majority of the students used Whatsapp for communication purposes. Furthermore, the use of social media bolstered communication among the deaf or hearing impaired and visually impaired students with ordinary people. The study revealed that the primary motivation behind social media usage was social interaction. The social media usage pattern was found to be statistically significant with the motivation behind usage. The social media usage pattern was also statistically significant with the experienced benefits of increased communication. Moreover, the study also revealed that students had learned something from social media usage. These associations were found to be statistically significant at P≤0.05.

Social antecedents and consequences of political privacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2352-2369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Jin Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Racial Background ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interactive Relationship ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Using a national sample in the United States ( n = 1047), we test the social stratification of (1) political disclosure and (2) its effects on one’s decision to connect into and disconnect from communities, as indicated by friendship or follower status. The analysis poses larger questions about the function of social media in bringing together diverse communities and explores how one’s political disclosure is (1) affected by social backgrounds and (2) affects the characteristic of mediated social interactions. We found that political disclosure and racial background had the interactive relationship in influencing one’s social connection. Frequent social media use, on the other hand, was not associated with the disclosure of political viewpoints. We discuss the implications of how socialization might incubate the differential effects among social segments, as well as the mixed effects of social media on the users from different communities.

scholarly journals Wikileaks and consequences for modern diplomacy – observations by a foreign policy practitioner

Politik ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
The People ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Arab Spring

Wikileaks did not reveal much we did not know about U.S. foreign policy already. e true revelations were – as many had suspected – that some foreign leaders pursue a di erent foreign policy agenda than the of- cial one. Sources providing information to foreign diplomats will be more prudent from now on. e main impact is a new type of diplomacy bypassing leaders to communicate directly with the people – increasing people’s power and highlighting the growing importance of civic society and the social media. e ability to intensively monitor social media also brings a markedly better understanding of the domestic context of foreign countries. Events surrounding the Arab spring bears testament to this. 

Navigating the Social Media Space for Māori and Indigenous Communities

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Indigenous Worldview ◽  
Ways Of Being

This chapter explores how Māori and Indigenous communities are engaging in social media in ways that reflect their cultural aspirations and Indigenous ways of being. Social media provides opportunities for Indigenous people to represent an Indigenous worldview that encompasses cultural, political, and social preferences. Highlighted also in this chapter are the risks inherent within the use of social media for Māori and Indigenous communities: in ways in which the misrepresentation, commodification, and exploitation of Indigenous culture and traditions are amplified through the use of social media that support colonial ideologies and the ongoing practice of colonization.

Social media usage and employee creativity: is relational energy a missing link?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Zhou ◽  
Jian Mou ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yenchun Jim Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Paired Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Relationship

PurposePrevious studies overemphasize the negative effects of social media usage (SMU) within organizations and underestimate its positive influences on employees' behavior. This study attempts to link employees' social media use at work to their creativity performance.Design/methodology/approachBased on the bounded generalized reciprocity theory and unbounded indirect reciprocity (UIR) theory, the authors developed a research model. To test the model, the authors collected a set of 172 paired data of organizations and employees from 31 knowledge-intensive enterprises in China to test the hypothesis.FindingsThis research found that the social, cognitive and hedonic uses of social media all directly affect employee creativity. Relational energy fully mediates the effects of the cognitive and hedonic usages on creativity. Moreover, job autonomy moderates the effects of the relationships among the social, cognitive and hedonic uses on employee creativity.Originality/valueThe conclusions not only enriched authors’ understanding of the effectiveness of interpersonal interaction but also extended the research boundary of the relationship between SMU and employee creativity.

scholarly journals Who Are Controlled by The Same User? Multiple Identities Deception Detection via Social Interaction Activity (Student Abstract)

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 13853-13854
Author(s):  
Jiacheng Li ◽  
Chunyuan Yuan ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Jingli Wang ◽  
Songlin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Real World ◽  
Deception Detection ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Multiple Accounts

Social media has become a preferential place for sharing information. However, some users may create multiple accounts and manipulate them to deceive legitimate users. Most previous studies utilize verbal or behavior features based methods to solve this problem, but they are only designed for some particular platforms, leading to low universalness.In this paper, to support multiple platforms, we construct interaction tree for each account based on their social interactions which is common characteristic of social platforms. Then we propose a new method to calculate the social interaction entropy of each account and detect the accounts which are controlled by the same user. Experimental results on two real-world datasets show that the method has robust superiority over state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Unveiling Social Gratifications Sought and Obtained from Social Media Utilization

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Ridwan Adetunji Raji ◽  
Olawale Abdulgaffar Arikewuyo ◽  
Adeyemo Saheed Oladimeji Adeyemi ◽  
Muhammad Ramzan Pahore
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Networking Tool ◽  
Bonding And Bridging ◽  
Social Gratification

<p class="Default"><em>Going by the proposition of the Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), people are motivated to use media by various psychological factors and for obtaining different forms of gratifications. However, as social media continue to play an essential role in shaping the sociability and bridging social connectivity and interactions among its users, therefore, this study seeks to incorporate social influence and social interactions as the social gratification sought in social media utilization, as well as both bonding and bridging social capital as social gratification obtained from social media utilization. An online survey was conducted among 400 users of Instagram </em><em>in Nigeria. </em><em>The data analyzed with PLS-SEM revealed that social influence and social interaction significantly motivate social media utilization. Also, social media utilization is significantly associated with bonding and bridging social capital. Impliedly, this study shows that social media is a social and networking tool which is stimulated by social factors and for achieving social purposes such as getting help, support and community engagements.</em></p>

scholarly journals Social Media and Youth: Uses, Problems, and Prospects in Southern Punjab (Pakistan)

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 138-146
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilal Nawaz ◽  
Abdul Wajid Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Uses And Gratification ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Usage Patterns

The current study aimed to explore and investigate the social media uses and gratifications among the youth of Southern Punjab with regard to problems and prospects. The researcher aimed to investigate the social media usage behavior, preferences, gratification,and motives of the youth aged between 17-25 years to measure the prospects and problems of social media usage patterns. It was also measured that the level of impact of social media on social interactions, on religious information and level of trust and reliability over the information provided by social media websites. A survey research design has been utilized as a data collection tool. A total of 1200 respondents were selected by purposive sampling technique from the three selected districts. The results supported both theories Uses and Gratification and Social Learning as there was significant difference in usage patterns among youth belonging to different socio-demographic characteristics.

scholarly journals The e-lang Project: Towards a Socio-Interactional Approach for Language Teaching and Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 154-169
Author(s):  
Catherine Jeanneau ◽  
Christian Ollivier
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Real World ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type ◽  
Theoretical Paper

In this theoretical paper, we present an innovative pedagogical approach to language learning and teaching. This approach is based on a dialogical conception of communication and the principle that any human action and communication is determined by the social interactions within which it takes place. On the strength of this approach, we propose an extension of the usual typology of tasks in order to include what we call real-world tasks. The characteristics of this new type of tasks are then specified. Finally, we give a concrete example of a real-world task.

scholarly journals Kapitał uwagi jako skutek powstania mediów społecznościowych

Adeptus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jędrzej Maliński
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
New Type ◽  
New Form ◽  
The One

Attention capital as a result of the emergence of the social mediaIn this paper a theoretical model based on Pierre Bourdieu’s forms of capital is presented. It is applied to an analysis of cultural content production, distribution and consumption mechanisms. It assumes that on the cultural market there is always a social entity mediating between a sender and a receiver – on the one hand as a medium, on the other as institution granting salary to the author. After sketching a historical background, a new type of capital – attention capital – is presented. It has been emerging as a result of the technical development of the mass media and its functioning is profoundly transformed by the social media. Though attention capital (measured, e.g., by the number of likes or comments) is often translatable to other forms of capital, it remains rather autonomous. However, the development of the Internet allows us to broader our choice of content, consistent with our preferences, but the gratification, in form of views, is gained not so much by the author of content, but rather by a person who has shared it. This process is even more noticable in the case of memes, whose authorship often cannot even be established. As a result of the changes on the Internet, the emergence of new form of a sociocultural economy can be noticed. Kapitał uwagi jako skutek powstania mediów społecznościowychW niniejszym artykule przedstawiony zostaje model teoretyczny oparty na formach kapitału Pierre’a Bourdieu. Zostaje on zaaplikowany do analizy mechanizmów produkcji, dystrybucji i konsumpcji treści kulturowych. Obserwując rynek kultury, należy bowiem zauważyć, że pomiędzy nadawcą a odbiorcą każdorazowo istnieje byt społeczny zapośredniczający odbiór treści kulturowych – z jednej strony jako medium, z drugiej strony jako instytucja wynagradzająca autora. Po krótkim rysie historycznym następuje prezentacja, w jaki sposób poprzez powstanie technicznych mediów masowych wyłania się nowy typ kapitału – kapitał uwagi. Jego funkcjonowanie zostaje w jeszcze większym stopniu przekształcone przez powstanie mediów społecznościowych. Choć kapitał uwagi (mierzony w wymiernej liczbie wyświetleń, odwiedzin strony, lajków itd.) jest często przekładalny na inne formy kapitału, to sam w sobie jest autonomiczny. Wprawdzie rozwój internetu pozwala nam na szerszy wybór treści, zgodny z naszymi preferencjami, ale nagrody w postaci wyświetleń (czy komentarzy lub ocen) trafiają nie tyle do autora materiału, co do osoby, która go udostępniła. Proces ten jest jeszcze wyraźniejszy w przypadku memów, których autorstwa często nawet nie sposób ustalić. Obserwując wyłaniające się w internecie zjawiska, możemy w rezultacie mówić o nowej formie społecznej ekonomii kulturowej.

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