The Online Social Networks on Knowledge Exchange: Online Social Identity, Social Tie and Culture Orientation

Xiao, Huilin; Liu, Weifeng; Cao, Xubin; Tang, Zongming

doi:10.1080/1097198x.2012.11082753

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“…This understanding is consistent with the main premise of social cognitive theory. Virtual communities, including online social Q&A communities in this study, provide an attractive platform for people to seek and share information through the internet without face-to-face interaction (Xiao et al, 2012), and online environment for interactions can be critical for users to decide whether conduct participation behaviors. Unexpectedly, perceived familiarity in an online social Q&A community cannot significantly affect users' participation.…”

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What drives users’ participation in online social Q&A communities? An empirical study based on social cognitive theory

Bao

Han

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine some drivers of users’ participation in online social question-and-answer (Q&A) communities based on social cognitive theory and then identify the underlying mechanism of this process. Design/methodology/approach This study developed a research model to test the proposed hypotheses, and an online survey was employed to collected data. Totally, 313 valid responses were collected, and partial least squares structural equation modeling was adopted to analyze these data. Findings This study empirically finds that the outcome expectations (personal outcome expectations and knowledge self-management outcome expectations) are positively related to participation in online social Q&A communities. At the same time, users’ self-efficacy positively influences their participation behaviors. It can not only directly motivate users’ participation, but also indirectly promote participation behaviors through the two dimensions of outcome expectations. Besides, perceived expertise and perceived similarity are two positive and significant environmental elements affecting users’ participation. Originality/value This study extends the understanding about how participation behaviors will be motivated in the context of online social Q&A communities. Drawing on the social cognitive theory, constructs were established based on the features of these communities. Meanwhile, some mediating effects in the motivating process were also discussed.

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What drives users’ participation in online social Q&A communities? An empirical study based on social cognitive theory

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2019

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“…Such perspectives might include the actual, physical bilateral bandwidth between countries and the structural equivalence of nations based on their common website use in IT, business, politics, and academia (Chung et al, 2014). For example, research on social networking services (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and Weibo) might represent the process of forming hyperlink networks among users or organizations as an emerging means for communicating, collaborating, sharing, and organizing (Hsu, Park & Park, 2013;Jung, No, & Kim, 2014;Xiao, Li, Cao, & Tang, 2012;Zhang, Zhang, Ordóñez, De Pablos, & Sun, 2014). Research on the website connections of businesses or NGOs will provide insight into information or knowledge sharing in globally linked networks.…”

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Evolution of the International Hyperlink Network

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Chung

2016

Journal of Global Information Technology Management

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This study describes the evolution of the international hyperlink network. The World Wide Web is a distributed hypertext system consisting of a virtual network of content and hyperlinks with billions of interlinked pages. Since the Web has no "engineered architecture," it can be understood as a self-organized system with a well-defined structure of linkage that implies an underlying social structure. This article examines the evolution of the Web's emergent social structure and communication network at the level of nation-states. It reviews the literature on the international hyperlink network and then focuses on changes between 2009 and 2010 using data on the frequency of bilateral hyperlinks between nations. The article discusses special problems associated with the top-level domain .com as well as other generic top-level domains that do not refer to specific nations whose domain names refer to commercial or vanity applications.

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“…On these grounds, SET may lend itself well to the understanding of social relationships and individuals' behavior in the digital realm. Despite previous studies suggesting that these online spaces have the potential to change existing forms of social relationships (McFarland and Ployhart 2015), individuals mostly maintain the traditional structure of trust circles when they are online and mainly interact with others with high-level subjective knowledge (Xiao et al 2012). Social media allows for anonymity (Anduiza et al 2009), a plausible pathway to diminish the costly privacy risks that users fear in online exchanges (Liu et al 2016).…”

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Out-of-Place Content: How Repetitive, Offensive, and Opinion-Challenging Social Media Posts Shape Users’ Unfriending Strategies in Spain

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Filtering strategies enable social media users to remove undesired content from their feeds, potentially creating homophilic environments. Although previous studies have addressed the individual-level factors and content features that influence these decisions, few have solely focused on users’ perceptions. Accordingly, this study applies social exchange theory to understand how users socially construct the process of unfriending. Based on 30 in-depth interviews with young Spaniards, we identify a widespread pattern of rejection over repetitive, opinion-challenging, and offensive posts, which we conceptualize as out-of-place content, a type of social media stimulus that hinders substantive online exchanges and challenges users’ understanding of social reality and individual values. This study contributes to current literature on unfriending by suggesting that filtering strategies are implemented gradually when posts overwhelm users’ tolerance threshold. Our findings also suggest that their deployment hinges on the closeness of the relationship between peers and social commitments formed in specific platforms. Future research is needed to assess to what extent the patterns identified in our interviews are present in the overall population.

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The Online Social Networks on Knowledge Exchange: Online Social Identity, Social Tie and Culture Orientation

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

What drives users’ participation in online social Q&A communities? An empirical study based on social cognitive theory

What drives users’ participation in online social Q&A communities? An empirical study based on social cognitive theory

Evolution of the International Hyperlink Network

Out-of-Place Content: How Repetitive, Offensive, and Opinion-Challenging Social Media Posts Shape Users’ Unfriending Strategies in Spain

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