ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA 2
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Annotated Bibliography on Globalization and social media
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Annotated Bibliography on Globalization and social media
Bateman, P.J., Gray, P.H., & Butler, B.S. (2011). Research note-the impact of community commitment on participation in online communities. Information Systems Research, 22 (4), 841-854.
Online discussion communities have undoubtedly played an immense role as far as globalization is concerned. They have become the medium of interactions on a broadened range of contexts and topic conversations across the world. However, the success of these online discussion communities depends immensely on the willingness of the participants to invest both their attention as well as time whenever there are no formal role or control structures. It’s argued that these online communities of studies, the majority of the people who participate, more often than not, are driven by self-interests whereas a small number of them emphasizes their motivational altruism. By drawing on their study on topologies of commitment of the organization, the authors have tried to bring absolute consistency into a variety of theories that have been put forth to argue for or against these online discussion communities. Their conceptual framework amalgamates these different rationales to explain the validity of different online behaviors as far as online discussion communities are concerned. They conclude their study by arguing that participants of these kinds of online discussion communities often develop psychological bonds to some online community groups based on factors such as their needs, obligations, and needs.
Bharati, P., Zhang, C., & Chaudhury, A. (2014). Social media assimilation in firms:
Investigating the roles of absorptive capacity and institutional pressures. Information Systems Frontiers, 16 (2), 257-272.
The authors of this article argue that firms have startlingly started to employ social media to manage and influence their organizations’ partners’ relationships without studying the assimilative role of social media on institutional pressures. In their study, they used a specified model (which they combined with other two theoretical streams of IT adoption, i.e., institutional theory and organizational innovation) to investigate some firms’ social media assimilation. Their study’s finding pointed out that institutional pressures are necessary antecedents to absorptive capacities – which is a vital capability measure of organizational learning. Consequently, from their augment theory’s finding they argue that institutional pressures don’t pose any direct impact on social media assimilation, but their impact on social media’s absorptive capacity is the one which mediates this assimilation.
Cao, X., Guo, X., Liu, H., & Gu, J. (2015). The role of social media in supporting knowledge integration: A social capital analysis. Information Systems Frontiers, 17 (2), 351-362.
Emerging internet of things (IoT) has taken globalization to another level. The authors of this article argue that the emergence of IoT is just but the architectural representation of the next generation Internet-based information. They point out that social networks’ convergence to IoT’s solutions has redefined social interaction and the impact of globalization as a whole. However, they argue that for IoT to take off in the sector of IT, stakeholders and their respective providers must look for ways of integrating knowledge efficiently. Their study investigates social media’s role in supporting this course of integrating knowledge from the perspective of social capitalism. They recommend or propose that social media should realize its potential to facilitate employees’ forms of social capitalism as indicated by mediational variables such as social trust, networking, and shared language. These variables can be relied upon to impacting knowledge integration positively. This argument is validated by the analysis of their data survey which was collected from 262 working professionals in China. This research finding supported their empirical hypothesis on this topic. There is no doubt that this study’s findings might inspire globalization and future directions of socialization.
Chen, J., Xu, H. & Whinston, A.B. (2011). Moderated online communities and the quality of user-generated content. Journal of Management Information Systems, 28(2), 237-268.
The authors of this article note that Online communities have given a new dimension to globalization. These communities have proved to be the most magnificent spheres for global socialization because now people can exchange knowledge, do business and share information without the barrier of their geographical settings. However, they argue that as much information sharing has become a ubiquitous phenomenon of these Online communities, there is still a lot that needs to be done to resolve the issues surrounding commentators’ anonymity – one of the biggest hurdles towards ensuring information quality or quality inducement on the information that is shared. Their article is centered on the essence of introducing moderations to online reputation systems as one of the ways of improving information quality. Their study found that when different reputation systems are moderated with variant probabilities, commentators can produce reputation oscillations in the form of display patterns and whose content can be used not just to build peak reputation but also exploit their status. Their study underscores the vitality of such kind of moderation. However, moderation frequency must be appropriately chosen to better the performance of online communities as one of the efforts of making globalization useful through the influence of social media.
Choi, B.C., Jiang, Z., Xiao, B., & Kim, S.S. (2015). Embarrassing exposures in online social networks: An integrated perspective of privacy invasion and relationship bonding. Information Systems Research, 26(4), 675-694.
The authors of this article point out the significance of social networks in bringing friends closer through social exchanges. However, more often than not, some people may use this platform of social exchange to trespass other people’s privacy. Involuntary exposures of someone’s privacy such as exposing their dirty past can be offended or amuse victims based on their mindsets. To minimize such traits among online users, the authors conducted a study on a social exchange theory which analyzed to what extent demeaning exposures can affect the process of globalization through social media networks. Their study examined the impacts of network commonality as well as dissemination of the information on someone’s assessment of social exchange and how the results shape their psychological responses. It was found that both network commonality and information dissemination play an influential role in someone’s perceived invasions of privacy as well as their relationship bonding.
Dewan, S., & Ramaprasad, J. (2014). Social media, traditional media, and music sales. MIS
Quarterly, 38(1), 101-121.
Taking into consideration the fact that social media has growingly become very important to globalization, the authors of this article examines the context of music industry’s growth in terms of sales about the influence of both new and old media. Notably, their study interplayed between music sales, blog buzz and radio plays of music albums and song level analysis. They used or employed the method of Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) – which is an extension of autoregression to panel data analysis. They found that future sales, at both the album and song levels, can be positively influenced by radio play. However, the studies indicated that blog buzz indicated a negative impact on the album and song sales. Therefore, it should not be discarded that the role of media in the music industry has become very phenomenal and so it’s to the impact of social media on globalization.