Domestic Water Charges in Ireland - Issues and Challenges Conveyed through Social Media

Quinn, Martin; Lynn, Theodore G.; Jollands, Stephen; Nair, Binesh

doi:10.1007/s11269-016-1374-y

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“…A number of highly visible accounts related to "experts" on crowdfunding who have typically published books, run events or comment in the media. In line with similar studies in other domains, it can be observed from Tables 2 and 3 that the most active users are not the most visible users and vice versa [85,86]. Similarly, visibility is more likely to be a better predictor of influence.…”

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An Exploratory Data Analysis of the #Crowdfunding Network on Twitter

Lynn

Rosati

Nair

et al. 2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Together, social media and crowdsourcing can help entrepreneurs to attract external finance and early-stage customers. This paper investigates the characteristics and discourse of an issue-centered public on Twitter organized around the hashtag #crowdfunding through the lens of social network theory. Using a dataset of 2,732,144 tweets published during a calendar year, we use exploratory data analysis to generate insights and hypotheses on who the users in the #crowdfunding network are, what they share, and how they are connected to each other. In order to do so, we adopt a range of descriptive, content, network analytics techniques. The results suggest that platforms, crowdfunders, and other actors who derive income from the crowdfunding economy play a key role in creating the network. Furthermore, latent ties (strangers) play a direct role in disseminating information, investing, and sending signals to platforms that further raises campaign prominence. We also introduce a new type of social tie, the “computer as a social actor”, previously unaddressed in entrepreneurial network literature, which play a role in sending signals to both platforms and networks. Our results suggest that homophily is a key driver for creating network sub-communities built around specific platforms, project types, domains, or geography.

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An Exploratory Data Analysis of the #Crowdfunding Network on Twitter

Lynn

Rosati

Nair

et al. 2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Early studies regarding influence on Twitter suggested that the most active and the most visible users may indicate influence on Twitter [ 73 ]. Subsequent studies, in both commercial and non-commercial contexts, highlight qualitative differences in the legitimacy of highly active users when compared to highly visible users [ 82 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 87 ]. By and large, these studies suggest that highly active accounts are more likely to be characterised as automated and they are less likely and unlikely to be the most visible users, and vice-versa.…”

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Sorting the Healthy Diet Signal from the Social Media Expert Noise: Preliminary Evidence from the Healthy Diet Discourse on Twitter

Lynn

Rosati

Santos

et al. 2020

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Over 2.8 million people die each year from being overweight or obese, a largely preventable disease. Social media has fundamentally changed the way we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create content. The ease with which content can be shared has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of individuals or organisations that seek to influence opinion and the volume of content that they generate. The nutrition and diet domain is not immune to this phenomenon. Unfortunately, from a public health perspective, many of these ‘influencers’ may be poorly qualified in order to provide nutritional or dietary guidance, and advice given may be without accepted scientific evidence and contrary to public health policy. In this preliminary study, we analyse the ‘healthy diet’ discourse on Twitter. While using a multi-component analytical approach, we analyse more than 1.2 million English language tweets over a 16-month period in order to identify and characterise the influential actors and discover topics of interest in the discourse. Our analysis suggests that the discourse is dominated by non-health professionals. There is widespread use of bots that pollute the discourse and seek to create a false equivalence on the efficacy of a particular nutritional strategy or diet. Topic modelling suggests a significant focus on diet, nutrition, exercise, weight, disease, and quality of life. Public health policy makers and professional nutritionists need to consider what interventions can be taken in order to counteract the influence of non-professional and bad actors on social media.

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“…As a result, the formation of collective actions and the generation of real impacts from social media activism may be conditional on the presence of a catalyst event, which exposes firm hypocrisy, or on the leadership of organized bodies, such as NGOs or trade unions (Gómez-Carrasco & Michelon, 2017;Guo & Saxton, 2018). While this may be the case, whether social media can actually lead to stakeholder mobilization is an open question (Quinn, Lynn, Jollands, & Nair, 2016). Future research may examine how advocacy groups or stakeholders are forming collective actions using social media and whether the employment of social media collective power may lead to any improvement on CSR accountability and real changes in corporate policies.…”

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Managing stakeholder perceptions: Organized hypocrisy in CSR disclosures on Facebook

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Michelon

2019

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This study examines stakeholders' perceptions of CSR disclosures by exploiting big data about the interactions between firms and stakeholders in social media. Given that social media represent public arenas where divergentsometimes conflicting -stakeholder interests are present and debated, we draw on organized hypocrisy theory to explore how stakeholders react to hypocrisy talk, decisions, and actions strategies employed in CSR disclosures on Facebook. We retrieve and analyze S&P100 firms' Facebook posts and the related stakeholders' reactions for the period starting 24 th February 2016 to 2 nd March 2017. We find that stakeholders exhibit diverse reactions towards firms' hypocrisy strategies. While stakeholders put more value on firms' actions-related information, and such actions disclosures attract both positive and negative reactions, talk and decisions disclosures generate positive reactions and reduce negative perceptions. We also investigate how stakeholder reactions trigger firms' postdisclosure replies and find that firms engage selectively with stakeholders, avoiding those who have concerns or criticism towards firms' CSR practices. Overall, our findings show that the use of organized hypocrisy disclosure strategies in social media allows firms to manage stakeholder perceptions and maintain legitimacy.

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Domestic Water Charges in Ireland - Issues and Challenges Conveyed through Social Media

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

An Exploratory Data Analysis of the #Crowdfunding Network on Twitter

An Exploratory Data Analysis of the #Crowdfunding Network on Twitter

Sorting the Healthy Diet Signal from the Social Media Expert Noise: Preliminary Evidence from the Healthy Diet Discourse on Twitter

Managing stakeholder perceptions: Organized hypocrisy in CSR disclosures on Facebook

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