The Identification and Influence of Social Roles in a Social Media Product Community

Benamar, Lamya; Balagué, Christine; Ghassany, Mohamad

doi:10.1111/jcc4.12195

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“…More in detail, we envisage a significant stream of emerging research dealing with the diffusion of access-based consumption and business models, and examination of its dynamics in the context of the sharing economy as represented by the few recent publications already available [133][134][135]. Moreover, investigation of behavioural practices and circular business models related to replacement, repair and reuse in the context of the circular economy could also represent a future trend supported, also in this case, by few recent publications already showing such tendency [136][137][138][139][140][141].…”

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The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

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The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practice theories to this field are expanding geometrically and to date, little retrospective work on this evolution has been made. We conduct a bibliometric analysis of applications of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies. Our results show a temporal succession of research trends: ‘consumer identity’ dominated the field between 2009 and 2012, ‘business and governance’ between 2012 and 2014, ‘sustainable consumption and production’ between 2013 and 2014, ‘urban living and policy’ between 2014 and 2015 and ‘household energy’ from 2015 until the present. We see a high potential of future applications of practice theories in the fields of the sharing and circular economy, as well as in research on smart cities. We provide new insights into the evolution and future trends of applications of social practice theory to domains that are relevant for research on sustainability and consumer studies.

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confidence: 92%

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“…Fables are implemented as a web-based tool called F4BL3s, conceived to accommodate the different roles of teachers and pupils. This means that differently from current studies like [16], the roles of users are recognized and translated into distinct, interconnected working environments, hence partially reproducing the interactional ecology involving the participants and their different roles. In this respect, F4BL3s is designed to fit within e-learning practice seen as a social, transformative practice that teachers and pupils co-design through forms of distant and in person interactions, where the targeted result is mainly a learning experience for the pupils.…”

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confidence: 82%

Fables for Teachers and Pupils

Valente

Marchetti

2019

Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing Learning Experiences

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The Fables project is grounded on an ecological approach to elearning, where we analyze the practice of e-learning as an information ecology, centered on the interaction among teachers, pupils and their tools, placed within the classroom. A simple Fable represents one of Schön's exemplars; a Fable can be interacted with digitally, as a simulation, to help understand and predict the behavior of a real-world system or scenario. In schools Fables can be used to represent the knowledge that pupils have, to be shared/showed interactively to others, and they are experienced as a more dynamic version of presentation slides. In this paper we strengthen the formal definition of Fables, and we investigate Fables' expressive power. A new version of the online Fables tool F4BL3s has been implemented and used in the evaluation. The main new features of this version are: better visualization of Fables in playback, possibility for the authors to associate custom images to the characters in their Fables, and new export functions to convert a Fable into Twine stories and Microsoft Pow-erPoint compatible slides. According to our knowledge of the needs of teachers and pupils, the last feature is needed to improve interoperability of F4BL3s with other standard tools, which is in turn a key factor for the acceptance of the tool. Future work includes an improved visual editor as suggested by the data from our evaluation, and continue in-classroom tests.

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“…For example, as shown in Figure 3, Benamar et al (2017) and Combs represent two case studies each detecting different roles in different settings. Benamar et al (2017) analysed a dicussion forum on Facebook and Combs a discussion forum on Usenet. Both case studies detected roles which are characterised by selfish and purpose-driven behaviour, such as the product fan learner (Benamar et al, 2017) and the flame warrior (Combs Turner et al, 2005).…”

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“…Despite these differences, role detection analyses in networks do not account for network-specific complex structures which leads to a flawed detection of roles. Moreover, role detection in networks adheres to using case studies, the approach of small group research (Benamar et al, 2017;Combs Turner et al, 2005;de Valck et al, 2009). Results of these case studies are not interrelated in an overarching framework and therefore cannot be used to systematically advance insights and theory-building in role detection.…”

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A new theory of social roles in networks

Roller¹,

Schweitzer²

2021

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Theories of social roles neglect social clusters. However, accounting for clusters is essential because individuals in social networks (e.g., social media) cannot oversee the whole network and have to restrict their interactions to local substructures. Roles that do not account for this cluster formation may lead to misinterpretations of the network’s dynamics and functions. This article proposes a theory of social roles in large social networks. We group roles detected in previous empirical studies into meta-roles and embed them along two dimensions, strategicness describing whether the person works towards a particular goal or not, and the type of strategy (selfish or group-oriented). We extend this framework by adding a cluster dimension describing to what extent a person’s interactions are embedded locally or globally in the network. We argue that empirical role analyses would benefit from our theory by systematically accounting for complex structures specific to the network perspective, generalising empirical findings beyond individual case studies, and understanding human interactions better.

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The Identification and Influence of Social Roles in a Social Media Product Community

Cited by 32 publications

References 48 publications

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

Fables for Teachers and Pupils

A new theory of social roles in networks

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