In the past ten years, social media has become an integral part of everyday life with large
economic, political, and societal implications. While the influence of traditional media …

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the most pressing methodological issues
and challenges social media scholars need to address. Social media is pervasive in …

Social media continues to grow as a focus of social, organizational, and scholarly interest,
yet there is little agreement as to what constitutes social media and how it can be effectively …

Accepting the challenges of social media research | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case
studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced search Accepting the …

Current models of data access in social media research offer clear benefits, but are also
fraught in a number of ways, including by posing risks to user privacy, being constrained in …

The institutions we have come to call “media” have been involved for over a century in
providing an infrastructure for social life and have invested in a quite particular and …

Drawing upon the social media phenomena in both practical and academic arenas, this
study explored patterns and trends of social media research over the past fourteen years …

In just one decade, social media have revolutionized the life of many people and thus
attracted much attention, not only from industry, but also academia. To understand how …

In this paper, we highlight some of the challenges and opportunities that social media
presents to researchers, and offer relevant theoretical avenues to be explored. To do this …

In this article, the authors present the results from a structured review of the literature,
identifying and analyzing the most quoted and dominant definitions of social media (SM) …