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Stephan Schaefer . Photo

Stephan Schaefer

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Stephan Schaefer . Photo

The corporate social media creep

Author

  • Stephan Schaefer

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Organizational Studies
  • CIRCLE

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

124-138

Publication/Series

Culture and Organization

Volume

29

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Business Administration
  • Media Studies

Keywords

  • Imagined affordances
  • qualitative research
  • ambient pervasive awareness
  • corporate social media creep
  • critical social media research

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1477-2760