Social media usage among organizations is growing tremendously. Organizations are now building and maintaining social media public pages to improve their social network salience, enhance interest in their organizations, and build relationships with the online public. The majority of the studies on social media usage are based on the individual perspective while some are from the organizational ...

Social media are in the top of the agenda for many companies to date, however there seems to be very limited understanding of the usage of social media for work purposes. In this study, we investigate what values increase this usage, and whether that usage is related with employees’ performance. Additionally, we explore the impact of employees’ work experience on their social media behaviour. O...

Social media enable individuals to share knowledge, experiences, opinions, and ideas among each other. With regard to political sector, social media can be an enabler for participation and democracy among citizens. As the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaigns have shown, social media platforms such as social network sites (SNSs), microblogging services or weblogs can also be successfully us...

Social media is a growing phenomenon and have the biggest impact on organizations’ continual communication with customers and the public. It also plays increasingly important role as a marketing platform. Even though social media has been recognized as the most powerful medium in business practice, there is lack of understanding in terms of how social media benefits the organization. Therefore,...

Social networking sites (SNS) are quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for social interaction and information exchange. Previous research has shown a relationship between users’ personality and SNS use. Using a general population sample (N=300), this study furthers such investigations by examining the personality correlates (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness-to-Experience, Agreeable...

Acknowledgments The authors thank KLICT: Chain networks, clusters, and ICT for financial support for part of this project; Olga Gommers for valuable research assistance; for insightful comments and suggestions; and an anonymous food product manufacturer for its valuable support of this project. Abstract In this article, the authors investigate consumers' consideration of media channels during d...

This paper presents the results of an online survey which was conducted to analyse the use of social web in the context of daily news. Users’ motivation and habit in the news consumption were focused. Moreover, users’ news behaviour was distinguished in three purposes such news consumption, news production and news dissemination to find out if the usage has a passive or active character. In a s...