Social InformaticsReview of Professional Resource

Will Jiang U3039179

Selected Professional ResourceIs as part of major publication from International

Computer Association (ICA).Providing audience the opportunity to scan the

academically sound research which reflects the latest social problems involving communications

Topics included culture development and preservation, life span development, quality of life, and political communication among political systems and nations

Not only the theoretical proposition but also indicated to reveal the policy-related solutions for the urge issues sparked

Reviewed articles DOES BLOGGING EMPOWER WOMEN? EXPLORING ROLE OF

AGENCY AND COMMUNITY . MAIN THEME The strong relationship between self-reporting psychological

empowerment benefits for blogging. Relevant psychological empowerment components were associated with blogging type as well as blogging motivation via SOC and /or SOA.

INFORMATION, COMMUNITY, AND ACTION: HOW NONPROFITS ORGANIZATIONS USE SOCIAL MEDIA

MAIN THEME The developed newer forms of communication heralded a qualitative

change in communicative potential beyond that possible through email or website. The advent of social media has opened up even greater possibilities for interpersonal and organizational communication.

Selected Article

Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social Media

Kristen Lovejoy, Gregory D. Saxton. Department of Communication, University at Buffal, SUNY

Article Summary This paper investigated Twitter utilization

practiced of the 100 largest nonprofits enterprises in the United State.

Concentrates on a central feature of non profit organization’s social media utilization-the actual messages sent by using Twitter.

Non-profit Organizations employ new media for the purposes of information-sharing and dialogic relationship-building.

Main ThemeThe advent of social media has opened up

even greater possibilities for interpersonal and for interpersonal and organizational communication.

Exam the content of the aggregate set of tweets via original typology of organizational micro-blogging functions.

Investigate and classify the organizations based on their relative utilization of the various micro-blogging functions.

Main IssuesOrganizational-level research on social media has not

grown as rapidly.Controversies of the profits and weak point of

Twitter.Non-profit organizations are heavy reliance on basic

information uses as a lost opportunity fir furthering interactivity and dialogue with supporters.

Lack of data of how organization use social media to communicate with their stakeholders and general public, therefore author have to adopt fundamental theories from studies of website utilization.

Key FindingsSocial media appears to have created opportunities for

interpersonal engagement, interactivity, and dialogue that qualitatively different from traditional website

12 Types of tweets emerged from the coding process. After group by their functions, there are there major categories: Information, Community, and Action.

59% of tweets been sent by non-profit organization were classifieds as informational. Which can connect a broad array of stakeholders to its mission and help to boost accountability and public trust.

Dialogue may not be the key form of social media-based organizational communication. But also been dominated by community-building, promotion and mobilization.

Social Theory PointsAuthor initiated this report at the social

media and organizational communication literature review. According to Kling (1997), Social theoretical works are not ‘reality transcending’ but they are situation transcending.

Analytical Reduction PointsAuthor have adopted strictly quantitative

social science approach of examining 4,655 tweets been sent between specific period by 73 non-profit organization with Twitter accounts then analyze the result by utilizing an original typology of organizational micro-blogging functions.