Social media platforms have been widely adopted by firms. Yet, research has failed to provide an indepth understanding of social media collective practices in an industry level. This study utilises the case of a well-established hashtag and analyse it in terms of its content and structure. To theorise the collective social media practices, we explore the social media affordance of association i...

.T HE Social Security Act in 1935 established a dual program of protection against old-age dependency-old-age benefits, a contributory social insurance system covering primarily industrial and commercial workers; and old-age assistance, a program administered by the States (but partly financed by the Federal Government) to give financial assistance to aged persons who were in need. Under both p...

A sample of the Myspace artist network is examined to investigate the relationship between social connectivity and audio-based similarity. Audio data from the Myspace artist pages is analyzed using well-established signal-based music information retrieval techniques. In addition to showing that the Myspace artist network exhibits many of the properties common to social networks, we show there i...