Structural Differentiation in Social Media : Adhocracy, Entropy, and the "1 % Effect" / by Sorin Adam Matei, Brian C. Britt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matei, Sorin Adam, author.

Britt, Brian C., author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in social networks 2190-5428

Lecture Notes in Social Networks, 2190-5428

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data mining.

Mass media.

Communication.

Social media.

Big data.

Physics.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Media Sociology.

Social Media.

Communication Studies.

Big Data/Analytics.

Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.

Local Subjects:

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

Media Sociology.

Social Media.

Communication Studies.

Big Data/Analytics.

Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 247 pages) : 33 illustrations, 32 illustrations in color.

Edition:

First edition 2017.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book explores community dynamics within social media. Using Wikipedia as an example, the volume explores communities that rely upon commons-based peer production. Fundamental theoretical principles spanning such domains as organizational configurations, leadership roles, and social evolutionary theory are developed. In the context of Wikipedia, these theories explain how a functional elite of highly productive editors has emerged and why they are responsible for a majority of the content. It explains how the elite shapes the project and how this group tends to become stable and increasingly influential over time. Wikipedia has developed a new and resilient social hierarchy, an adhocracy, which combines features of traditional and new, online, social organizations. The book presents a set of practical approaches for using these theories in real-world practice. This work fundamentally changes the way we think about social media leadership and evolution, emphasizing the crucial contributions of leadership, of elite social roles, and of group global structure to the overall success and stability of large social media projects. Written in an accessible and direct style, the book will be of interest to academics as well as professionals with an interest in social media and commons-based peer production processes.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Structural Differentiation and Social Media: Theoretical Framework

Macro-Structural Perspectives on Social Differentiation and Organizational Evolution in Online Groups

Specifying a Wikipedia-centric Explanatory Model for Online Group Evolution and Structural Differentiation

Social Structuration Online: Entropy and Social Systems

Analytic Investigation of a Structural Differentiation Model for Social Media Production Groups

Part II: Configurational Change Phases and Motors in Online Collaboration

The Foundations of a Theoretical Model for Organizational Configurations and Change in Online Collaborative Processes

Organizational Configurations and Configurational Change

A Synthesized Theoretical Framework for Motors Driving Organizational Configurational Change

Wikipedia Evolution: Trends and Phases

Breakpoints and Concurrent Factors

Part III: Future theoretical and practical directions

Conclusions

Appendix A: Data Collection, Management, Pre-Processing, and Analysis

Appendix B: Historical and Media Analysis of Wikipedia's Evolutionary Context

Appendix C: Advantages and Disadvantages of Stepwise Segmented Regression Analysis.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-319-64425-7

9783319644257

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