Conflicts in social media

Understanding the Mediating Role of Social Media in Virtual Team Conflicts

Communication technology is recognized as an important component of a virtual team (VT). Communication technologies other than social media have been linked to VT conflicts by prior research. This research in progress explores using social media to see if any improvements can be made to conflicts in VTs. The researchers emphasize on the “feature richness” of social media which is understood as ...

Examining the Effect of Social Media Tools on Virtual Team Conflicts: A Process Model

This research investigates how the use of social media tools affects virtual team conflicts. The novel concept of “feature richness”, which is understood as affordances of social media tools, is theorized. Feature richness distinguishes social media tools from other commonly used communication tools in virtual teams. The researchers propose a process model which suggests that operationally, fea...

Social Cognitive Semantic Conflicts and Social Cognitive Reaction Conflicts: Mechanism of Self-Control

The aims of this study were to investigate the differences in responses for varied self-control experiment paradigms, and to explain these differences on the basis of social cognitive semantic conflicts and social cognitive reaction conflicts. Using two mixed experimental designs, the study incorporated the stop signal and single-attribute implicit association test paradigms into a selfcontrol ...

Social Media Mining: Major Concerns in Social Media Mining

Social Media has gained remarkable attention. This is due to the affordability of accessing social network sites such as Twitter, Google+, Facebook and other social network sites. Organizations and people relying on the Social Media for information and opinion of other users on diverse subject matters Online Social Network (OSN) mining has been a active area of research in the current years. Th...

The Role of the News Media in Unequal Political Conflicts