Latia Johnson
ENGL 105-02-2003A
Unit 3 Discussion Board
SID: 23307156
Article 1: Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of
Social Technologies in Organizations
Leonardi, P. M., Huysman, M., & Steinfield, C. (2013). Enterprise Social Media: Definition, History, and Prospects for the Study of Social Technologies in Organizations.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication,
19
(1), 1-19. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12029 Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/19/1/1/4067484
This article describes how organizations can implement social media with in their business to enable employees complete tasks on the job. It also provides and in depth review of how social media can limit employees from completing their work.
Article 2: Predicting the Future with Social Media
S. Asur and B. A. Huberman, "Predicting the Future with Social Media," 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
, Toronto, ON, 2010, pp. 492-499, doi: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.63. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5616710
This article explain how through the use of social media, real world outcomes are predicted. It also describes how important these prediction have become in areas such as box office revenues and film.
Article 3: Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building block of social media.
Kietzmann, J. H., Hermkens, K., Mccarthy, I. P., & Silvestre, B. S. (2011). Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media.
Business Horizons,
54
(3), 241-251. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2011.01.005 Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681311000061?via%3Dihub
This article explains how social media has become the phenomenon it is today. It also describes how different social media platforms can significantly impact an organization in regards to business acumen in a positive or negative way.
