Structural Differentiation in Social Media : Adhocracy, Entropy, and the "1 % Effect" - Matei, Sorin Adam.; Britt, Brian C.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Introduction -- Part I: Structural Differentiation and Social Media: Theoretical Framework -- Macro-Structural Perspectives on Social Differentiation and Organizational Evolution in Online Groups -- Specifying a Wikipedia-centric Explanatory Model for Online Group Evolution and Structural Differentiation -- Social Structuration Online: Entropy and Social Systems -- Analytic Investigation of a Structural Differentiation Model for Social Media Production Groups -- Part II: Configurational Change Phases and Motors in Online Collaboration -- The Foundations of a Theoretical Model for Organizational Configurations and Change in Online Collaborative Processes -- Organizational Configurations and Configurational Change -- A Synthesized Theoretical Framework for Motors Driving Organizational Configurational Change -- Wikipedia Evolution: Trends and Phases -- Breakpoints and Concurrent Factors -- Part III: Future theoretical and practical directions -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Data Collection, Management, Pre-Processing, and Analysis -- Appendix B: Historical and Media Analysis of Wikipedia's Evolutionary Context -- Appendix C: Advantages and Disadvantages of Stepwise Segmented Regression Analysis.
Keywords: Data mining; Mass media; Communication; Social media; Big data; Physics; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Media Sociology; Social Media; Communication Studies; Big Data/Analytics.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks