BISE paper was elected as Best Publication of 2012 by the AIS Senior Scholars Consortium

Published : 19.12.2013 | Categories: Community News

The BISE paper “Raising and Rising Voices in Social Media – A Novel Methodological Approach in Studying Cyber-Collective Movements”
written by Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, and Rolf Wigand
which appeared in the BISE issue 3/2012 received the AIS Best Publication of 2012 Award! This is the first time that a BISE paper was selected by the Senior Scholars Consortium. We congratulate the authors!

Abstract:
“Emerging cyber-collective social movements (CSMs) have frequently made headlines in the news. Despite their popularity, there is a lack of systematic methodologies to empirically study such movements in complex online environments. We develop a novel methodology modeling CSMs from individual, community, and transnational perspectives by utilizing existing collective action theories and computational social network analysis. Using the Al-Huwaider online campaigns as a case study, we establish a rigorous and fundamental analysis that explains CSMs in multi-cultural settings. The methodology also assists in observing the transcending nature of CSMs for modeling transnational outreach. The research has implications to business, marketing and many other settings, beyond the exemplary setting chosen here for illustrative purposes.”

A full version of the paper can be found at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-012-0210-z