{"title":"The corporate social media creep","authors":"S. Schaefer","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2022.2153129","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses an empirical case study of a corporate social media platform, and suggests and elaborates the concept of corporate social media creep framed by the notion of imagined affordances. The corporate social media creep describes the gradual expansion and encroachment of corporate social media on work and private life beyond its supposed productive function and purpose. The corporate social media creep is fuelled by ambient pervasive awareness which arouses users’ hope for exposure to relevant pieces of information and creates a perception of other users’ panoptic gaze. The concept of corporate social media creep extends theoretical knowledge of corporate social media users’ experience and provides a critical discussion of why users keep paying attention to corporate social media applications they largely deem to be irrelevant for their work.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":"29 1","pages":"124 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Culture and Organization","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2022.2153129","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper analyses an empirical case study of a corporate social media platform, and suggests and elaborates the concept of corporate social media creep framed by the notion of imagined affordances. The corporate social media creep describes the gradual expansion and encroachment of corporate social media on work and private life beyond its supposed productive function and purpose. The corporate social media creep is fuelled by ambient pervasive awareness which arouses users’ hope for exposure to relevant pieces of information and creates a perception of other users’ panoptic gaze. The concept of corporate social media creep extends theoretical knowledge of corporate social media users’ experience and provides a critical discussion of why users keep paying attention to corporate social media applications they largely deem to be irrelevant for their work.
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Culture and Organization was founded in 1995 as Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies . It represents the intersection of academic disciplines that have developed distinct qualitative, empirical and theoretical vocabularies to research organization, culture and related social phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as organizational, communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The Journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understanding of organizational phenomena. Culture and Organization features refereed articles that offer innovative insights and provoke discussion. It particularly offers papers which employ ethnographic, critical and interpretive approaches, as practised in such disciplines as communication, media and cultural studies, which go beyond description and use data to advance theoretical reflection. The journal also presents papers which advance our conceptual understand-ing of organizational phenomena.