Is LinkedIn making you more successful? The informational benefits derived from public social media

Public Protests, Social Media and Policy Making Public Protests, Social Media and Policy Making *

We explore the limits of petitions and public protests as mechanisms to aggregate dispersed information. We show that if citizens’ signals are not sufficiently precise, information aggregation is impossible, even if the conflict with the policy-maker is small, no matter how large is the population of informed citizens. We characterize the conditions on conflict and the signal structure that gua...

Mining the Social Web - Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites

Mining the Social Web by Matthew Russell is a delightful reading which covers a wide array of very pertinent social media technologies. When working in the field of social media and web mining, one comes across a plethora of buzz words, tools and techniques to do various web data analysis tasks. This book does a great job at demystifying these topics. What I liked most about Mining the Social W...

Making Succinate More Successful

Who Benefits More from Social Media: Evidence from Large-Sample Firm Value Analysis

This study examines the relationship between social media presence and the market value of firms. Using the creation of a Facebook Company page as a social media adoption event, we find that while firms are deriving some positive value from using social media, the effects are heterogeneous. Specifically, we find that social media adoption and use are complementary to “data skills” – the market ...

Visions of Social Media: Surfacing Schemas from Firms' Informational Engagements

Prior research has noted the salience of informational engagements that culminate in an organizing vision to the diffusion of technology and the value firms garner from the technology. In contrast to sociological theories that view meaning as inherently pluralistic, information technology research has espoused a single community-level organizing vision. Drawing upon schema theory, we posit that...