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Researchers are increasingly grappling with ways of theorizing social media and its use. This review essay proposes that the theory of Information Grounds (IG) may provide a valuable lens for understanding how social media fosters collaboration and social engagement among information professionals. The paper presents literature that helps us understand how social media can be seen as IG, and maps the characteristics of social media to the seven propositions of IG theory. This work is part of a wider study investigating the ways in which Information Technology (IT) professionals experience social media.
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Narayan, B., Talip, B.A., Watson, J., Edwards, S. (2013). Social Media as Online Information Grounds: A Preliminary Conceptual Framework. In: Urs, S.R., Na, JC., Buchanan, G. (eds) Digital Libraries: Social Media and Community Networks. ICADL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8279. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03599-4_15
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