Social impact in technologically-mediated communication: An examination of online influence

Miller, Michael D.; Brunner, C. Cryss

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.05.004

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“…They argued, that social media lead to ''increasing polarization, as more ideological or polarized citizens may feel a stronger need to organize and affect public outcomes'' (p. 760). Miller and Brunner (2008) confirmed this polarization effect online-their research found that assertiveness and exaggeration were significant factors of online influence efforts.…”

Section: Social Media and The Publicsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Men andTsai (2012, 2013) conducted a pair of studies and found that social media engagement behaviors include information dissemination (i.e., posting an announcements, news), media surveillance, (i.e., reference to media sources), criticism, personal commentary, emotional support (i.e., encouragement), networking (i.e., communicating with others directly), calls for action, and making inquires. Combining the polarizing effect of social media (Fieseler & Fleck, 2013;Miller & Brunner, 2008) with the cognitive immersion and empowerment characteristic of engagement (Oh et al, 2010;Kang, 2014) suggests that publics will use social media in the case of the Taksim Square protests to post personal commentary and criticism, and that the tone of posts will be either negative or positive, rather than neutral. Furthermore, research (Smith, 2010;Valentini et al, 2012) suggests that interactivity will also be prominent.…”

Section: Social Media and The Publicmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In fact, Williams (2013) noted in his literature review that studies tended to analyze empowerment as a concept of social networking. These studies included work by Miller andBrunner (2008, cited in Williams, 2013) and by Latané (1981, cited in Williams, 2013) that confirmed the role of network strength, closeness, and number of members as factors of power and impact, as well as work by Bakshy et al (2011, cited in Williams, 2013) that found ''the most influential users were those with a large number of followers, and who were retweeted frequently in the past'' (p. 5). Williams (2013) suggested that the number of sources might be a key to understanding social media power.…”

Section: Power From Tangible Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tweeting Taksim communication power and social media advocacy in the Taksim square protests

Smith

Men

Al-Sinan

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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Section: Social Media and The Publicsupporting

confidence: 66%

Section: Social Media and The Publicmentioning

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Tweeting Taksim communication power and social media advocacy in the Taksim square protests

Smith

Men

Al-Sinan

2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…A comunicação mediada por computador está impactando na sociedade e influenciando a vida das pessoas, dada à diversificação e à aceleração das informações, acessibilidades e serviços que chegam ao alcance dos usuários (Miller & Brunner, 2008).…”

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Usabilidade e preferência de uso na rede social facebook: uma análise netnográfica dos usuários tecnológicos

Ferreira

Filho

2015

JISTEM USP

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This article presents a study about the preference of use in virtual social networks, using Facebook as object of study, to identify the motivational factors for the usability of this technology platform. The social network Facebook has been chosen to present a technological scenario of high sociability and virtual interaction. The methodology used was the netnography, being made through the collection of discussions in North American sites of news and forums online, where there is a large critical user participation on the internet, about the gains and frustrations in this context. The content analysis was performed comparing the categories of users found in the literature about values that motivate consumer technology, describing the hedonic, social, utilitarian values and perceptions of risk in consumption when related to lack of privacy. The results show two main groups of users of this technology and 7 subgroups. Therefore, the contribution of the study is that the formation of these groups may reflect technological usability of user groups around the world. The study also brings to the discussion issues related to the behaviors of the users of virtual networks which can be useful for businesses and their relationships with consumers and also the development of new knowledge from such criticism and demands that digital consumers expose about the technologies.

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“…Miller and Cryss Brunner have shown how influential posters tend to exaggerate and show high assertiveness in addition to posting longer and more regular messages (Miller and Cryss Brunner, 2008).…”

Section: Persuasion and Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Sociable knowledge sharing online: philosophy, patterns and intervention

Matthews

Stephens

2010

Aslib Proceedings

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PurposeThis paper seeks to outline a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and to emphasise socio‐cognitive and emotional factors behind motivation and credibility in communities supported by social software. An attempt is made to identify positive and negative patterns of interaction from this perspective and to argue for more positive intervention on the part of the information profession.Design/methodology/approachThe paper outlines social epistemological and related theory, cognitive and social drivers of behaviour and then draws together evidence to justify the definition of patterns that will be important to the project.Research limitations/implicationsA programme of evaluating online knowledge exchange behaviour using a social epistemological framework is needed. In order to do this, methodological development coupling formal epistemological with interpretive techniques for examining belief formation are also necessary.Practical implicationsConsiderations for the design and deployment of knowledge platforms and for engagement with existing communities are outlined.Social implicationsThe ideas presented attempt to define an important role for the information profession within a new paradigm of participation and social interaction online.Originality/valueThe connection between social epistemology theory and LIS has long been appreciated, but social epistemology is rarely applied to practice or to online social platforms and communities.

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Social impact in technologically-mediated communication: An examination of online influence

Cited by 40 publications

References 87 publications

Tweeting Taksim communication power and social media advocacy in the Taksim square protests

Tweeting Taksim communication power and social media advocacy in the Taksim square protests

Usabilidade e preferência de uso na rede social facebook: uma análise netnográfica dos usuários tecnológicos

Sociable knowledge sharing online: philosophy, patterns and intervention

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