Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association

Patient Data as Medical Facts: Social Media Practices as a Foundation for Medical Knowledge Creation

“…Self--tracking can be useful to patients, not only for health monitoring, but also for socialization opportunities (Treem and Leonardi 2012). New lab results, disease courses, or other unfortunate health developments can be important subjects for interaction with other patients.…”

“…When it is not, they establish new medical items, which, once integrated into the While it is hard to assess the stability and practical embedding of these changes, the pervasive nature of social media across the social and economic fabric suggests that they may well be part and parcel of wider institutional and organizational changes (Benkler 2007;Faraj et al 2011;Majchrzak et al 2013;Treem and Leonardi 2012;Zittrain 2008 (Kallinikos et al 2013), these computational means and resources enable the expert to draw links between varying phenomena. In many respects, this expert work is data work as Zuboff (1988) depicted it some time ago (see also Kallinikos 1995Kallinikos , 1999.…”

“…In some basic ways, the technological underpinnings of the network coincide with its Studies have shown how social media enables certain interactions that assist with knowledge production and collaboration within, across, or beyond organizations (Faraj et al 2011;Majchrzak et al 2013;Treem and Leonardi 2012). Actors in organizations use social media to reach out to heterogeneous, public tools that afford several kinds of associations.…”

“…While the precise resources and solutions by which such a task will be pursued in the future may vary, the need for documenting patient experience through the means offered by social media platforms and web technologies will persist and possibly grow. The diffusion of these social technologies across the social and economic fabric suggests that they may well be part of wider cultural change in which the boundaries of institutional and organizational practices and arrangements are refigured (Benkler 2007;Faraj et al 2011;Majchrzak et al 2013;Treem and Leonardi 2012;Zittrain 2008).…”

Does social media usage matter? An analysis of online practices and digital media perceptions of communication practitioners in Europe

“…The focus of research shifted from normative propositions like the promise of more symmetrical and dialogical communication approaches (e.g., Kent, Taylor, & White, 2003;Wilcox, 2006;Duhé, 2012;Wright, 1998Wright, , 2001 to rational arguments about benefits, limits and structural prerequisites of online strategies (e.g., Treem & Leonardi, 2012;Zerfass & Pleil, 2012) to empirical studies on online practices in various regions of the world (Wright & Hinson, 2009, 2012Macnamara & Zerfass, 2012;.…”