TY - GEN
T1 - Social networking technologies and organizational knowledge sharing as a sociotechnical ecology
AU - Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein
AU - Sawyer, Steve
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We focus on how the uses of social networking technologies (SNT) are bound up in knowledge sharing practices. For us SNT include weblogs, wikis, corporate social networking platforms, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Our focus is to the uses of SNT relative to people's informal networks within and across organizations. We conceive these as multidimensional networks, treating technology and humans symmetrically and as members of the same sociotechnical ecology. To date, evidence indicates that SNTs have multiple roles regarding knowledge sharing in organizational contexts, and it appears that uses of SNT advance collaborative practices in ways not fully congruent with contemporary organizational practices.
AB - We focus on how the uses of social networking technologies (SNT) are bound up in knowledge sharing practices. For us SNT include weblogs, wikis, corporate social networking platforms, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Our focus is to the uses of SNT relative to people's informal networks within and across organizations. We conceive these as multidimensional networks, treating technology and humans symmetrically and as members of the same sociotechnical ecology. To date, evidence indicates that SNTs have multiple roles regarding knowledge sharing in organizational contexts, and it appears that uses of SNT advance collaborative practices in ways not fully congruent with contemporary organizational practices.
KW - Informal ties
KW - Knowledge sharing
KW - Social networking technology
KW - Sociotechnical ecology
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U2 - 10.1145/2141512.2141552
DO - 10.1145/2141512.2141552
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858249176
SN - 9781450310512
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 99
EP - 102
BT - CSCW'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
T2 - ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, CSCW'12
Y2 - 11 February 2012 through 15 February 2012
ER -