Description: Structural Differentiation in Social Media Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Adhocracy, Entropy, and the "1 % Effect" Author(s): Sorin Adam Matei, Brian C. Britt Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319877914, 978-3319877914 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Structural Differentiation in Social Media
Number of Pages: 247 Pages
Publication Name: Structural Differentiation in Social Media: Adhocracy, Entropy, and the 1 % Effect
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Sociology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Business
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 403 g
Author: Brian C. Britt, Sorin Adam Matei
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
Format: Paperback
