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Online Identities and Social Networks in Organizational Settings

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Synonyms

Corporate networking; Lattices and ties; Organizational online grids

Glossary

Company Identity:

An identity created in organizational settings by workers and stakeholders

Online Identity:

An identity created and maintained in online settings

Online Network:

A network created and maintained in online settings

Social Network Analysis (SNA):

An approach used to study the characteristic features of social networks

Social Network:

A system of grids, lattices, and ties determining the relationships between people

Definition

The modern organization can be characterized by the growing role of technology in creating, distributing, and using organizational content as well as offering different possibilities to diversified stakeholders outside their typical use. With the increasing importance of organizational activities that occur outside the traditional settings (e.g., on the Internet), online identity has become an important part of corporate and institutional representation. Online...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Intercultural Communication and Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Department of Translation Studies, Institute of English, Faculty of Languages, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

    Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska

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  1. Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska
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Correspondence to Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska .

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. UC-Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Felix Wu

  2. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Henric Johnson

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Bielenia-Grajewska, M. (2018). Online Identities and Social Networks in Organizational Settings. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_337-1

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