Business Communications: Evaluation of Social Media in Workplaces

This report analyzes the usage of social media in business communications, drawing on five different journal articles. Each journal is evaluated based on its audience, transparency, objectivity, and currency. The first journal explores the impact of social media on work performance, particularly within the insurance sector. The second paper examines social media's affordances in organizational settings, focusing on visibility, editability, persistence, and association. The third journal investigates how social media leverages personal and collective knowledge processes. The fourth paper addresses the definition of social media and the governance challenges associated with it. The fifth journal presents a meta-analysis of current research on social media use and participation. The report synthesizes the findings from these journals, offering a comprehensive overview of social media's role in modern business communication and its implications for workplaces.

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Journal 1
Leftheriotis, I., & Giannakos, M. N. (2014). Using social media for work: Losing your time
or improving your work?. Computers in Human Behavior, 31, 134-142.
Audience: After analyzing this particular website it has been defined that, over the last
few years the worldwide popularity of social media is increasing rapidly. For most of the
business organizations social media is represented as the top of the agenda. The audiences of this
website are the employees of different business organizations. The social media network usage
for this website deals with insurance industries.
Transparency: The information represented in the website is verified with different tools
such as leadership and motivational approaches. The information implies that, social media is
very much useful to meet the purposes of the workplaces. The information would be verified
through the investigation of work performances.
Objectivity: The objectives represented in the journal states that, an empirical study for
investigating the social media usage within the insurance sector. In order to collect information
from the resources, 1799 responses from the employees of insurance industry are questioned.
This resource also highlights the influence of utilitarian and hedonic values in the social media
usage.
Currency: The information used in this website deals with different data however, all
information are not up to dated.

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Journal 2
Treem, J. W., & Leonardi, P. M. (2013). Social media use in organizations: Exploring the
affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association. Annals of the International
Communication Association, 36(1), 143-189.
Audience: The paper implies the social media use in business organizations that helps to
explore the affordances of visibility, edit-ability, persistence and association. The audiences of
this particular paper are employees who are working for the computer mediate communication
companies. The organizational processes could be enhanced with the help of these new
technologies.
Transparency: This particular academic resource is reliable in nature which offers free
lessons to the social media application domain. The usage of social media technologies such as
blogs, Wikipedia, Social networking sites, Micro blogging etc should not be used in the working
environment. However, the computer mediated organizational communication approaches are
absolutely reliable.
Objectivity: After analyzing the journal paper it has been found that the information
gained from the analysis are objective in nature. The consequences of the organizational
communication processes are not accurately presented in this paper. Thus, it is realized that the
paper is objective it means that it provided only an overview of the research topic.
Currency: The information used in the journals is not up to dated. The journal implies
that, in order to improve the organizational processes, the hope of the managers and there
leadership for using social media in the workplaces is stated as very much helpful. However, the
information represented in the paper is not up to dated.

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Journal 3
Razmerita, L., Kirchner, K., & Nabeth, T. (2014). Social media in organizations: leveraging
personal and collective knowledge processes. Journal of Organizational Computing and
Electronic Commerce, 24(1), 74-93.
Audience: The essence of this particular journal refers social; media usages in the
organizations are leveraging personal as well as collective knowledge processes. For this
particular paper the audiences are employees who are working in the business organizations. The
audience of this model is top down approach based.
Transparency: The information for this particular journal paper is verified accordingly.
The information collected for this particular journal paper, are verified through collective
knowledge based upon social collaborative dimension. The set of questions those are verified in
this journal include social media support for the personal and collective knowledge.
Objectivity: The information used in this journal paper is completely objective in nature
which implies that, the paper fails to represent the details of the paper rather it represents just an
outline of the paper. With the help of this particular tool the individuals could be kept under
control. However, this paper deploys and adopts new tools in the business organizations.
Currency: From the organizational context it has been found that the data are enough up
to dated in nature because it introduces a framework which classifies the social software in four
different categories considering the level of interaction.

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Journal 4
Obar, J. A., & Wildman, S. S. (2015). Social media definition and the governance
challenge: An introduction to the special issue
Audience: This particular paper deals with the social media definition and governance
challenges including the special issues of social network platform. The audiences of the journals
paper are the students and employees who are working in the business organizations.
Transparency: The social media serves web 2.0 internet based applications. Social
media serves facilities for the development of the social network through the connection of the
online networking.
Objectivity: For this particular journal, the collected information is absolutely subjective
in nature. It means that the information those have been collected for this paper, are subjective
and details the collected information according to the requirements of the authors.
Currency: The information collected are not up to dated.
Journal 5
Boulianne, S. (2015). Social media use and participation: A meta-analysis of current
research. Information, Communication & Society, 18(5), 524-538.
Audience: The audiences of this particular journal are the employee, who have been
working in the business organization and uses the social media platform as their marketing
media.

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Transparency: The information collected and represented in this particular journal is
verified through secondary data analysis.
Objectivity: The information exploited in this journal paper is objective in nature which
implies that information is clearly detailed in this paper.
Currency: The gathered information is not up to dated.

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References
Boulianne, S. (2015). Social media use and participation: A meta-analysis of current research.
Information, Communication & Society, 18(5), 524-538.
Leftheriotis, I., & Giannakos, M. N. (2014). Using social media for work: Losing your time or
improving your work?. Computers in Human Behavior, 31, 134-142.
Obar, J. A., & Wildman, S. S. (2015). Social media definition and the governance challenge: An
introduction to the special issue
Razmerita, L., Kirchner, K., & Nabeth, T. (2014). Social media in organizations: leveraging personal and
collective knowledge processes. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic
Commerce, 24(1), 74-93.
Treem, J. W., & Leonardi, P. M. (2013). Social media use in organizations: Exploring the
affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association. Annals of the
International Communication Association, 36(1), 143-189.