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The role of social networking technologies in sociomaterial ecology

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    This poster reports preliminary findings from our ongoing research project that empirically investigates the role of various social networking technologies (SNTs) in informal knowledge sharing practices within and across organizations. In this research the definition of SNT includes corporate social networking platforms, weblogs, wikis, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. To explain the role of SNTs along with other communication tools in organizations we draw on the concept of communicative ecology and sociomateriality. By integrating the two theoretical positions, we treat SNTs and people symmetrically and as members of the same sociomaterial ecology. The primary outcome of the initial stage of research is a holistic understanding of how various SNTs fit into the organizational members' sociomaterial ecology, facilitating disparate forms of knowledge sharing.

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      iConference '12: Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
      February 2012
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      ISBN:9781450307826
      DOI:10.1145/2132176

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      1. communicative ecology
      2. informal ties
      3. multidimensional networks
      4. organizational knowledge sharing
      5. social networking technology

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      February 7 - 10, 2012
      Ontario, Toronto, Canada

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