Social media and their affordances for organizing: A review and agenda for research

PM Leonardi, E Vaast - Academy of Management Annals, 2017 - journals.aom.org
Social media—computer-mediated tools of the Web 2.0 generation that make it possible for
anyone to create, circulate, share, and exchange information in a variety of formats and with …

Understanding user participation in online communities: A systematic literature review of empirical studies

S Malinen - Computers in human behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Online communities have become a popular and widely studied research topic. As active
participation has been acknowledged as essential for the sustainability of the communities …

Using social media for work: Losing your time or improving your work?

I Leftheriotis, MN Giannakos - Computers in Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
Social Media have been gaining in popularity worldwide over the last years at an
increasingly growing rate. The introduction of social media in companies enables a new …

Show me the money! An analysis of project updates during crowdfunding campaigns

A Xu, X Yang, H Rao, WT Fu, SW Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding campaigns have been launched, but more than half
of them have failed. To better understand the factors affecting campaign outcomes, this …

Personality matters: Balancing for personality types leads to better outcomes for crowd teams

I Lykourentzou, A Antoniou, Y Naudet… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
When personalities clash, teams operate less effectively. Personality differences affect face-
to-face collaboration and may lower trust in virtual teams. For relatively short-lived …

Multiple social media in the workplace: Contradictions and congruencies

E Forsgren, K Byström - Information Systems Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we report an investigation on the use of multiple social media in knowledge
work and explore the contribution of activity theory for such a study. As social media are …

Empowerment on the margins: The online experiences of community health workers

A Ismail, N Kumar - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Research in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) routinely relies on and
engages with the increasing penetration of smartphones and the internet. We examine the …

Mining expertise and interests from social media

I Guy, U Avraham, D Carmel, S Ur, M Jacovi… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
The rising popularity of social media in the enterprise presents new opportunities for one of
the organization's most important needs--expertise location. Social media data can be very …

From rookie to all-star: professional development in a graphic design social networking site

J Marlow, L Dabbish - Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Communities of practice have traditionally supported learning and knowledge exchange
within a professional field. However, little work to date has examined how individuals use …

Crowdfunding inside the enterprise: employee-initiatives for innovation and collaboration

M Muller, W Geyer, T Soule, S Daniels… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We describe a first experiment in enterprise crowdfunding-ie, employees allocating money
for employee-initiated proposals at an Intranet site, including a trial of this system with 511 …