Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the introduction of new communication channels facilitates interactive information sharing and collaboration between various actors over social networking services and how social networking fits in the existing European legal framework on data protection. The paper also aims to discuss some specific data protection issues, focusing on the ro...

Although social capital has been researched from many approaches and attempts have made to measure it online, the literature lacks an operational description that would allow its measurement criteria be established a network perspective. Therefore, purpose of this paper is identify in what metrics researchers use on networking sites Thus, contribution offers theoretical key elements for measuri...

This study investigates how an innovative technology, social networking, can be used in the process of building and maintaining social capital and exchanging knowledge in an educational setting. We employ a qualitative methodology, autoethnography, to examine how social networking can help students learn from other classmates and professors, exchange knowledge, and adjust both to a new program ...

Social networking site is a type of repository where you can find all type of information from all around the world. Reddit is a rising social website containing meaningful and useful information. Various view, comments and likes by people on social networking sites enables them to gather a large set of data to arrive at some consensus or analysis. This paper is a study to analyze the tendency ...

This article conceptualizes how the affordances of enterprise social networking systems can help reduce three challenges in sharing organizational knowledge. These challenges include location of expertise, motivation to share knowledge, and social capitalization in the form of developing and maintaining social ties with knowledge providers to actualize knowledge sharing. Building on previous th...

Social networking websites like Orkut, Facebook, Myspace and Youtube are becoming more and more popular and has become part of daily life for an increasing number of people. Because of their features, young people are attracted to social networking sites. In this paper, the authors explore the impact of social networking sites on the education of youth. The study argues that these social networ...

The introduction of the social networking platform has drastically affected the way individuals interact. Even though most of the effects have been positive, there exist some serious threats associated with the interactions on a social networking website. A considerable proportion of the crimes that occur are initiated through a social networking platform [5]. Almost 33% of the crimes on the in...

The primary purpose of this study is to identify the key predictor of undergraduate students’ intentions to use social networking sites. Technology acceptance model with three main unobserved variables, attitude, perceived behavior control, and subjective norms was employed as research framework. Seven other unobserved variables were added to the research framework. A technology acceptance ques...

Social-networking functions are increasingly embedded in online rating systems. These functions alter the rating context in which consumer ratings are generated. In this paper, we empirically investigate online friends’ social influence in online book ratings. Our quasi-experiment research design exploits the temporal sequence of social-networking events and ratings and offers a new method for ...

The introduction of social media has changed the way individuals communicate and collaborate both within and outside the organization. This paper examines a specific social media, Social Networking Sites. Organizational use of social networking sites (both public and enterprise) is discussed followed by a closer examination of intra-organizational social networking sites and how these sites hav...