Session 1: Framing Social Media and Organizations
Session 1 Introduces the themes of the Collaborative Organization and Social Media conference. Talks in this session frame the discussion of Social Media and Organizations. 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM...
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Session 2 feature discussion on ways in which the behaviors and activity of virtual organizations can be measured and studied. 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Measuring Creative Performance of Teams Through Dynamic...
View ArticleSession 3: Case Studies of Collaborative Organizational Social Media
Session 3 features talks which showcase the study of specific organizations and social media. These case-studies investigate how these operate in specific fields and situations 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM...
View ArticleStudent Session: Social Media and the Organization of Race
The Student Session will be a presentation by students from Prof Murthy's Race and Social Media class. It will feature a short panel discussion and poster presentations.
View ArticleVirtual Communities Don’t Exist: Avoiding Digital Dualism in Studying...
Effective collaboration in communities requires information sharing. Though digital media may have certain affordances that encourage us to communicate differently than in the past, the communities...
View ArticleThe “New” Prosumer: Collaboration on the Digital and Material “New Means of...
Many of “cyber-utopians” have lauded the Internet, especially social networking sites, for a variety of reasons, including making possible a dramatic and revolutionary increase in social collaboration...
View ArticleMeasuring Creative Performance of Teams Through Dynamic Semantic Social...
In this project we compare communication structure and content exchanged by members of creative, interdisciplinary teams of medical researchers, physicians, patients and caretakers with their creative...
View ArticleThe Future of Social Movement Organizations: The Waning Dominance of SMOs Online
For scholars interested in the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in protest and social movements, the importance of organizations doesn’t appear to be as axiomatic. Work over the...
View ArticleThe Role of Social Media for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration in...
Social media are providing a medium through which individuals are reshaping how they do many things – finding romantic partners, providing social support, grieving for loved ones, even buying mundane...
View ArticleThe organization (re)invented by its blogs
This article discusses how interactions in organizational blogs participate in the emergence of the organization itself. Based on the principles of The Montreal School of organizational communication,...
View ArticleFraming ICT Usage in the Real Estate Industry
The real estate industry, like many, is one based on a competitive consumer culture in which professionals vie for the business and, ultimately, the loyalty of customers. In this case, those customers...
View ArticleMicroblogging Practices of Virtual Organizations: Commonalities and Contrasts
Microblogging is becoming increasingly pervasive in computer-supported collaboration, attracting various types of users. Organizations, as one type, are willing to leverage this social media service...
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