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Papers by Eliane Bucher
Small Business Economics, 2021
New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as ho... more New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities and access funding and how they learn. How entrepreneurs learn may be transformed as digital technologies provide new spaces for learning, such as online communities. Online communities can gather thousands of participants and provide entrepreneurs with new opportunities for learning that are not limited by time, space, or social class. Yet, we know little about how entrepreneurs take advantage of the new digital opportunities of learning. To remedy this, we studied a large online community of entrepreneurs on Reddit (r/startups), where we qualitatively analyzed the top-voted 100 threads from 2018 to 2019 (10,277 comments in total). By drawing on coactive vicarious learning, a theory that describes how learning is socially constructed through discursive interactions, we outline how entrepreneurial learning is socially constructed through conversations...
Information, Communication & Society, 2017
Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal s... more Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal services and possessions with othersoften complete strangers. Shared goods can amount to substantial financial and immaterial value. Despite this, little research has investigated privacy in the sharing economy. To fill this gap, we examine the sharing-privacy nexus by exploring the privacy threats associated with Internet-mediated sharing. Given the popularity of sharing services, users seem quite willing to share goods and services despite the compounded informational and physical privacy threats associated with such sharing. We develop and test a framework for analyzing the effect of privacy concerns on sharing that considers institutional and social privacy threats, trust and social-hedonic as well as monetary motives.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion a... more Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion about the stress potential of new media once again becomes pertinent. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media reshape workplaces and accelerate traditional stress factors, such as information overload, the invasion of work into the private domain, and constant change in the applications being employed. However, because they are socially mediated and transcend the traditional boundaries between the professional and private domains, these new social technologies may not necessarily diminish enjoyment and job satisfaction. Based on a survey of 1015 marketing and communication managers, we argue that the traditional elements of technostress experienced in the face of social media may strain individuals’ resources and reduce time off-periods, but they may also make work more stimulating, thus positively affecting perceived enjoyment and job satisfaction. Furthermore, we posit that individuals’ “nativeness” – their...
Information, Communication & Society, 2013
Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholde... more Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholder interaction. Along with new possibilities also come challenges – as professionals are engaging in real-time conversations with their audiences on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and the like, they have to learn to mentally cope with an oversupply of possibly relevant information, with an invasion of work matters
Based on a qualitative interview study and on a quantitative survey among users of the room-shari... more Based on a qualitative interview study and on a quantitative survey among users of the room-sharing platform Airbnb, we show that situational closeness between sharing economy consumers and provide...
Organization, 2020
Algorithmic management is used to govern digital work platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. However... more Algorithmic management is used to govern digital work platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. However, algorithmic decision-making is often non-transparent and rapidly evolving, forcing workers to constantly adapt their behavior. Extant research focuses on how workers experience algorithmic management, while often disregarding the agency that workers exert in dealing with algorithmic management. Following a sociomateriality perspective, we investigate the practices that workers develop to comply with (assumed) mechanisms of algorithmic management on digital work platforms. Based on a systematic content analysis of 12,294 scraped comments from an online community of digital freelancers, we show how workers adopt direct and indirect “anticipatory compliance practices”, such as undervaluing their own work, staying under the radar, curtailing their outreach to clients and keeping emotions in check, in order to ensure their continued participation on the platform, which takes on the role of ...
Small Business Economics
New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as ho... more New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities and access funding and how they learn. How entrepreneurs learn may be transformed as digital technologies provide new spaces for learning, such as online communities. Online communities can gather thousands of participants and provide entrepreneurs with new opportunities for learning that are not limited by time, space, or social class. Yet, we know little about how entrepreneurs take advantage of the new digital opportunities of learning. To remedy this, we studied a large online community of entrepreneurs on Reddit (r/startups), where we qualitatively analyzed the top-voted 100 threads from 2018 to 2019 (10,277 comments in total). By drawing on coactive vicarious learning, a theory that describes how learning is socially constructed through discursive interactions, we outline how entrepreneurial learning is socially constructed through conversations...
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion a... more Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion about the stress potential of new media once again becomes pertinent. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media reshape workplaces and accelerate traditional stress factors, such as information overload, the invasion of work into the private domain, and constant change in the applications being employed. However, because they are socially mediated and transcend the traditional boundaries between the professional and private domains, these new social technologies may not necessarily diminish enjoyment and job satisfaction. Based on a survey of 1015 marketing and communication managers, we argue that the traditional elements of technostress experienced in the face of social media may strain individuals’ resources and reduce time off-periods, but they may also make work more stimulating, thus positively affecting perceived enjoyment and job satisfaction. Furthermore, we posit that individual...
… Center for Internet …, 2010
This report documents a study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Universit... more This report documents a study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University to review international experiences with broadband and plans for next generation connectivity. The most prominent initial findings were that US broadband performance in ...
ABSTRACT Social media are continuously gaining ground in PR workplaces as Facebook, Twitter and C... more ABSTRACT Social media are continuously gaining ground in PR workplaces as Facebook, Twitter and Co. are on their way of becoming standard tools in professional communication. But even though PR is one of the pioneering fields in terms of social media acceptance, not all professionals make equal use of social media nor do they feel equally at home in the new social communication paradigm. On the basis of an online survey among 1579 PR practitioners from 30 European countries, we propose four clusters of social media users in professional communication. The results of our quantitative analysis show, that there are considerable differences among PR professionals in terms of the extent, purpose and virtuosity of their social media usage as well as their attitude towards social media in general. We also show that the differences in social media usage do not necessarily follow traditional demographic patterns of gender, position or age.
Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal s... more Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal services and possessions with others—often complete strangers. Shared goods can amount to substantial financial and immaterial value. Despite this, little research has investigated privacy in the sharing economy. To fill this gap, we examine the sharing-privacy nexus by exploring the privacy threats associated with Internet-mediated sharing. Given the popularity of sharing services, users seem quite willing to share goods and services despite the compounded informational and physical privacy threats associated with such sharing. We develop and test a framework for analyzing the effect of privacy concerns on sharing that considers institutional and social privacy threats, trust and social-hedonic as well as monetary motives.
Information, Communication & Society, 2013
Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholde... more Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholder interaction. Along with new possibilities also come challenges – as professionals are engaging in real-time conversations with their audiences on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and the like, they have to learn to mentally cope with an oversupply of possibly relevant information, with an invasion of work matters
This paper addresses the question of what new sets of skills and competencies communica-tions pra... more This paper addresses the question of what new sets of skills and competencies communica-tions practitioners must develop in order to cope with and handle technology induced changes in their work and information environment. The aim of this paper is to provide an ...
Page 1. Lass uns keine Freunde sein : Social Media für Unternehmen: Eine Kultur-, nicht nur eine ... more Page 1. Lass uns keine Freunde sein : Social Media für Unternehmen: Eine Kultur-, nicht nur eine Strategiefrage Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler & Miriam Meckel ...
alexandria.unisg.ch
This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices,... more This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices, but first and foremost on the mental capacities and constitution needed in order to cope with a changing information environment. We show that being literate in an age ...
Kommunikationsmanager, Jan 1, 2011
alexandria.unisg.ch
Page 1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Media Eliane Bucher,Michael Etter &... more Page 1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Media Eliane Bucher,Michael Etter & Christian Fieseler ...
alexandria.unisg.ch
This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices,... more This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices, but first and foremost on the mental capacities and constitution needed in order to cope with a changing information environment. We show that being literate in an age ...
Kurzfassung With the increasing popularity of Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Li... more Kurzfassung With the increasing popularity of Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn and the like, the communication profession is facing new and exciting opportunities to communicateas well as new challenges that have to be met.
Small Business Economics, 2021
New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as ho... more New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities and access funding and how they learn. How entrepreneurs learn may be transformed as digital technologies provide new spaces for learning, such as online communities. Online communities can gather thousands of participants and provide entrepreneurs with new opportunities for learning that are not limited by time, space, or social class. Yet, we know little about how entrepreneurs take advantage of the new digital opportunities of learning. To remedy this, we studied a large online community of entrepreneurs on Reddit (r/startups), where we qualitatively analyzed the top-voted 100 threads from 2018 to 2019 (10,277 comments in total). By drawing on coactive vicarious learning, a theory that describes how learning is socially constructed through discursive interactions, we outline how entrepreneurial learning is socially constructed through conversations...
Information, Communication & Society, 2017
Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal s... more Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal services and possessions with othersoften complete strangers. Shared goods can amount to substantial financial and immaterial value. Despite this, little research has investigated privacy in the sharing economy. To fill this gap, we examine the sharing-privacy nexus by exploring the privacy threats associated with Internet-mediated sharing. Given the popularity of sharing services, users seem quite willing to share goods and services despite the compounded informational and physical privacy threats associated with such sharing. We develop and test a framework for analyzing the effect of privacy concerns on sharing that considers institutional and social privacy threats, trust and social-hedonic as well as monetary motives.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion a... more Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion about the stress potential of new media once again becomes pertinent. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media reshape workplaces and accelerate traditional stress factors, such as information overload, the invasion of work into the private domain, and constant change in the applications being employed. However, because they are socially mediated and transcend the traditional boundaries between the professional and private domains, these new social technologies may not necessarily diminish enjoyment and job satisfaction. Based on a survey of 1015 marketing and communication managers, we argue that the traditional elements of technostress experienced in the face of social media may strain individuals’ resources and reduce time off-periods, but they may also make work more stimulating, thus positively affecting perceived enjoyment and job satisfaction. Furthermore, we posit that individuals’ “nativeness” – their...
Information, Communication & Society, 2013
Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholde... more Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholder interaction. Along with new possibilities also come challenges – as professionals are engaging in real-time conversations with their audiences on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and the like, they have to learn to mentally cope with an oversupply of possibly relevant information, with an invasion of work matters
Based on a qualitative interview study and on a quantitative survey among users of the room-shari... more Based on a qualitative interview study and on a quantitative survey among users of the room-sharing platform Airbnb, we show that situational closeness between sharing economy consumers and provide...
Organization, 2020
Algorithmic management is used to govern digital work platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. However... more Algorithmic management is used to govern digital work platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. However, algorithmic decision-making is often non-transparent and rapidly evolving, forcing workers to constantly adapt their behavior. Extant research focuses on how workers experience algorithmic management, while often disregarding the agency that workers exert in dealing with algorithmic management. Following a sociomateriality perspective, we investigate the practices that workers develop to comply with (assumed) mechanisms of algorithmic management on digital work platforms. Based on a systematic content analysis of 12,294 scraped comments from an online community of digital freelancers, we show how workers adopt direct and indirect “anticipatory compliance practices”, such as undervaluing their own work, staying under the radar, curtailing their outreach to clients and keeping emotions in check, in order to ensure their continued participation on the platform, which takes on the role of ...
Small Business Economics
New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as ho... more New digital technologies possess the potential to transform entrepreneurial processes, such as how entrepreneurs pursue opportunities and access funding and how they learn. How entrepreneurs learn may be transformed as digital technologies provide new spaces for learning, such as online communities. Online communities can gather thousands of participants and provide entrepreneurs with new opportunities for learning that are not limited by time, space, or social class. Yet, we know little about how entrepreneurs take advantage of the new digital opportunities of learning. To remedy this, we studied a large online community of entrepreneurs on Reddit (r/startups), where we qualitatively analyzed the top-voted 100 threads from 2018 to 2019 (10,277 comments in total). By drawing on coactive vicarious learning, a theory that describes how learning is socially constructed through discursive interactions, we outline how entrepreneurial learning is socially constructed through conversations...
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion a... more Social media are transforming the nature of work. With the rise of social media, the discussion about the stress potential of new media once again becomes pertinent. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media reshape workplaces and accelerate traditional stress factors, such as information overload, the invasion of work into the private domain, and constant change in the applications being employed. However, because they are socially mediated and transcend the traditional boundaries between the professional and private domains, these new social technologies may not necessarily diminish enjoyment and job satisfaction. Based on a survey of 1015 marketing and communication managers, we argue that the traditional elements of technostress experienced in the face of social media may strain individuals’ resources and reduce time off-periods, but they may also make work more stimulating, thus positively affecting perceived enjoyment and job satisfaction. Furthermore, we posit that individual...
… Center for Internet …, 2010
This report documents a study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Universit... more This report documents a study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University to review international experiences with broadband and plans for next generation connectivity. The most prominent initial findings were that US broadband performance in ...
ABSTRACT Social media are continuously gaining ground in PR workplaces as Facebook, Twitter and C... more ABSTRACT Social media are continuously gaining ground in PR workplaces as Facebook, Twitter and Co. are on their way of becoming standard tools in professional communication. But even though PR is one of the pioneering fields in terms of social media acceptance, not all professionals make equal use of social media nor do they feel equally at home in the new social communication paradigm. On the basis of an online survey among 1579 PR practitioners from 30 European countries, we propose four clusters of social media users in professional communication. The results of our quantitative analysis show, that there are considerable differences among PR professionals in terms of the extent, purpose and virtuosity of their social media usage as well as their attitude towards social media in general. We also show that the differences in social media usage do not necessarily follow traditional demographic patterns of gender, position or age.
Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal s... more Internet-mediated sharing is growing quickly. Millions of users around the world share personal services and possessions with others—often complete strangers. Shared goods can amount to substantial financial and immaterial value. Despite this, little research has investigated privacy in the sharing economy. To fill this gap, we examine the sharing-privacy nexus by exploring the privacy threats associated with Internet-mediated sharing. Given the popularity of sharing services, users seem quite willing to share goods and services despite the compounded informational and physical privacy threats associated with such sharing. We develop and test a framework for analyzing the effect of privacy concerns on sharing that considers institutional and social privacy threats, trust and social-hedonic as well as monetary motives.
Information, Communication & Society, 2013
Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholde... more Social media have enriched the communication profession with new and immediate ways of stakeholder interaction. Along with new possibilities also come challenges – as professionals are engaging in real-time conversations with their audiences on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and the like, they have to learn to mentally cope with an oversupply of possibly relevant information, with an invasion of work matters
This paper addresses the question of what new sets of skills and competencies communica-tions pra... more This paper addresses the question of what new sets of skills and competencies communica-tions practitioners must develop in order to cope with and handle technology induced changes in their work and information environment. The aim of this paper is to provide an ...
Page 1. Lass uns keine Freunde sein : Social Media für Unternehmen: Eine Kultur-, nicht nur eine ... more Page 1. Lass uns keine Freunde sein : Social Media für Unternehmen: Eine Kultur-, nicht nur eine Strategiefrage Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler & Miriam Meckel ...
alexandria.unisg.ch
This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices,... more This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices, but first and foremost on the mental capacities and constitution needed in order to cope with a changing information environment. We show that being literate in an age ...
Kommunikationsmanager, Jan 1, 2011
alexandria.unisg.ch
Page 1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Media Eliane Bucher,Michael Etter &... more Page 1. Corporate Social Responsibility in Social Media Eliane Bucher,Michael Etter & Christian Fieseler ...
alexandria.unisg.ch
This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices,... more This paper proposes an approach to literacy that focuses not only on skills and social practices, but first and foremost on the mental capacities and constitution needed in order to cope with a changing information environment. We show that being literate in an age ...
Kurzfassung With the increasing popularity of Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Li... more Kurzfassung With the increasing popularity of Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn and the like, the communication profession is facing new and exciting opportunities to communicateas well as new challenges that have to be met.