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Social Media Information Literacy – What Does It Mean and How Can We Measure It?

“…In an increasingly digital environment, social media services have become a key channel for individuals to share information and news [1], but are understood and used heterogeneously [2]. Compared to traditional and mostly unidirectional media services (such as printed newspapers or television), these services change the characteristic of distributed information towards being dynamic.…”

Electronic Markets on digitalization

“…Using the example of social media, Julian Bühler and Markus Bick, investigate the use of terminology based on an analysis of scholarly papers that were published between 2005 and 2017. They confirm an imprecise usage, where different terms are used interchangeably and propose a taxonomy of five semantic clusters that add to a more stable and precise use of terminology (Bühler and Bick 2018). & The fourth paper analyzes the BDynamics of investor communication in equity crowdfunding^and connects to Electronic Markets' last special issue (Alt et al 2018).…”

Introduction to the Minitrack on Social Information Systems

“…While the former aim at conceptualizing and measuring causal relationships between the attributes of the information systems, the latter are more concerned with understanding and designing information systems in a cultural context and with applying social mechanisms. Referred to as social information systems [7], they differentiate from other information systems by their human element [4] and have received increased attention with the advent of social media, social software, and social platforms [1] [3].…”