{"title":"Business history and social media: A concise review","authors":"Zhaojin Zeng, Junyi Tao","doi":"10.1080/17449359.2023.2177675","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this short essay, we draw on recent studies in history, communication, information science, and social sciences to offer a concise review of the history of social media both as a business model and as a distinctive academic data source. We start with an overview of the development of social media platforms in the past several decades and then move into a brief survey of the state of the field, examining how business, economic, and management historians engage with social media. Next, we introduce several commonly adopted analytical approaches and computational tools for processing historical social media data. Our final discussion addresses several key issues surrounding the analysis of historical social media data in business and economic history.","PeriodicalId":45724,"journal":{"name":"Management & Organizational History","volume":"18 1","pages":"24 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Management & Organizational History","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2023.2177675","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT In this short essay, we draw on recent studies in history, communication, information science, and social sciences to offer a concise review of the history of social media both as a business model and as a distinctive academic data source. We start with an overview of the development of social media platforms in the past several decades and then move into a brief survey of the state of the field, examining how business, economic, and management historians engage with social media. Next, we introduce several commonly adopted analytical approaches and computational tools for processing historical social media data. Our final discussion addresses several key issues surrounding the analysis of historical social media data in business and economic history.
期刊介绍:
Management & Organizational History (M&OH) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish high quality, original, academic research concerning historical approaches to the study of management, organizations and organizing. The journal addresses issues from all areas of management, organization studies, and related fields. The unifying theme of M&OH is its historical orientation. The journal is both empirical and theoretical. It seeks to advance innovative historical methods. It facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue, especially between business and management history and organization theory. The ethos of M&OH is reflective, ethical, imaginative, critical, inter-disciplinary, and international, as well as historical in orientation.