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Annotated Bibliography
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Carr, C. T., & Hayes, R. A. (2015). Social media: Defining, developing, and
divining. Atlantic journal of communication, 23(1), 46-65.
Both the author's Carr and Rebecca is the associate instructor in the school of communication at
Illinois State University. The author in this article has given out the definition of social media.
The authors state that there is no basic description of social media and together functionally as
well as theoretically. According to the authors, there is a limitation in the understanding of the
media and the cogent theorizing. The author has drawn a comparison of the various types of
social media in all the disciplines, which includes public relations, management scholarship, and
information technology the article overall delivers a collective framework base to enable the
future of communication. This work is very much useful as it will assistance in underlining the
basic concept of social media and what social media is all about. However, the article has just
underlined the concept, and there is less attention to the detail.
Aichner, T., & Jacob, F. (2015). Measuring the degree of corporate social media
use. International Journal of Market Research, 57(2), 257-276.
Thomas Aichner and Frank Jacob are both eminent scholars. While Thomas is associated with
the University Of Padova, Frank Jacob is associated with ESCP Europe. The authors in this
article have provided a measure to the degree in which social media is used by the corporate
people or the companies. The article is taking into account how social media is used by the brand
in order to smooth out the process of communication. It is also tracing the corporate social media
degree as a significant indicator to trace down the metrics of social media and conclude where
there is an intensification in the usage of social media. The article can be used in the research

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paper by taking into account the author's view about the frequency of social media usage in the
companies; however, the limitation of the article is the conclusion drawn by the author is there is
an increase in the use of social media is very generalized.
Collins, K., Shiffman, D., & Rock, J. (2016). How are scientists using social media in the
workplace?. PloS one, 11(10).
Kimberley Collins and Jenny Rock hail from the University of Otago, while David Shiffman is
associated with the University Of Miami. The authors in the article have said that social media
has formed a network that has enabled interactions and has allowed information to enter in the
professional and social circumstances. The authors have focused their paper on how the scientist
is using social media to communicate in the research in the workplace. The authors in the
conclusion of the study state it has not been utilized by the scientist in the workplace the
frequency of the usage is very low. However, the authors state that the scientist has derived
advantages from social media in the workplace despite their low usage. The article is useful in
putting out the perspective of the scientist in the workplace; however, the researchers have only
done a sampling of 587 scientists; therefore, the authors have conducted a generalized result.
Upchurch, M., & Grassman, R. (2016). Striking with social media: The contested (online)
terrain of workplace conflict. Organization, 23(5), 639-656.
Martin Upchurch is a professor of the Middlesex University of London while Rickard Grassman
is from Upsala University, Sweden. The authors in this article stated how social media had been
used in the workplace by the workers for mobilization in order to revolt. The authors have
focused on the labor conflicts and the social movement by the workers. The authors have given
reference of the 2010-211 British Airways Cabin Crew disagreement in the United Kingdom,