Social Media Screening and Procedural Justice: Towards Fairer Use of Social Media in Selection

Companies have started using social media for screening applicants in the selection process. Thereby, they enter a low-cost source of information on applicants, which potentially allows them to hire the right person on the job and avoid irresponsible employee behaviour and negligent hiring lawsuits. However, a number of ethical issues are associated with this practice, which give rise to the question of the fairness of social media screening. This article aims to provide an assessment of the procedural justice of social media screening and to articulate recommendations for a fairer use of social media in the selection process. To achieve this, a systematic literature review of research articles pertaining to social media screening has been conducted. Thereby, the benefits and ethical issues relating to social media screening, as well as recommendations for its use have been extracted and discussed against Leventhal’s (1980) rules of procedural justice. It turns out that without clear guidelines for recruiters, social media screening cannot be considered procedurally fair, as it opens up way too many opportunities for infringements on privacy, unfair discrimination, and adverse selection based on inaccurate information. However, it is possible to enhance the fairness of this practice by establishing clear policies and procedures to standardize the process.

     

人文城市发展中的社交媒体管理

随着科学技术的快速发展、城市进程的加快,社交媒体被越来越广泛地应用到各个领域。年轻人更是将其作为了生活中不可或缺的一部分。然而,在人文城市建设的过程中,由社交媒体所引发的种种骚乱,其失控的形势也直逼1929年的全球经济大萧条,这使得许多国家的政府无所适从,不知如何应对。社会正在隐约地呼吁着"在传媒领域建立一种新的社会秩序",这可能便是"有限干预的社交媒体"的模型。     

Mutual Help Networks and Social Transformation in Japan

Japanese society has changed from the past as a result of modernization. However, there is one aspect of social action that has persisted at least in spirit. The purpose of the article is to show how traditional mutual help remains important, has been transformed in the transition to modernity, and has contributed to the continuing development of Japanese society. Mutual help can be divided into three types: yui, reciprocity through exchanging labor; moyai, redistribution based on a common store of goods and resources; and tetsudai, nonreciprocal support in social rites of passage. While these customs have almost disappeared from modern life, the tradition of mutual help is still manifest in some modern civic activities. The social system of mutual help arose from indigenous conditions in order to overcome the “tragedy of the commons.” Modern society might do well to reconsider such mutual help networks in search of ways of solving both public and private social problems in Japan and overseas as well.     

The Power of Stakeholders' Voice: The Effects of Social Media Activism on Stock Markets

Building on social movement theory, this study assesses the influence of social media activism on the stock market performance of targeted firms. We focus on information published on Twitter by two critical stakeholders: consumer associations and trade unions. To the extent that social media represent a valid medium to mobilize stakeholders' activism, protests on Twitter may damage firm reputation, leading to capital market reactions. Using a corpus of over 1.5 million tweets referring to Spanish listed banks, we study the impact of activism by looking at targeted firms' abnormal variations in price and trading volume. Our findings suggest that the Twitter activism of key stakeholders has a significant impact on investors' decisions. Further, our empirical analyses indicate that the mechanisms affecting investors' behavior differ depending on the characteristics of the stakeholder group. Hence, this study contributes to understanding how social movements influence corporate behavior via social media. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

媒体的社会责任研究——以虚假广告为例

近年来,虚假广告严重侵害消费者利益的案件层出不穷。当人们纷纷把矛头指向代言人、广告商等主体时,却忽略了虚假广告的发布者——媒体的责任。文章介绍了虚假广告的界定、特征以及危害,对媒体的角色扮演和原因进行分析,并从归责原则和构成要件两个方面阐述了媒体责任的认定,最后,为虚假广告的防范提出了若干建议。     

社会化媒体中的网络口碑运用研究

随着社会化媒体的发展,网络中的人际沟通越来越受到关注,网络口碑传播的重要性凸显。许多企业开始意识到社会化媒体的优势,并利用它来塑造品牌口碑。本文研究了社会化媒体的特征、社会化媒体中的网络口碑现状、网络口碑在社会化媒体中的传播路径,分析了网络口碑在社会化媒体中的具体运用,以帮助品牌建立良好的口碑。并为企业在社会化媒体中运用网络口碑提出有效建议。     

On Two Existing Approaches to Statistical Analysis of Social Media Data

Using social media data for statistical analysis of general population faces commonly two basic obstacles: firstly, social media data are collected for different objects than the population units of interest; secondly, the relevant measures are typically not available directly but need to be extracted by algorithms or machine learning techniques. In this paper, we examine and summarise two existing approaches to statistical analysis based on social media data, which can be discerned in the literature. In the first approach, analysis is applied to the social media data that are organised around the objects directly observed in the data; in the second one, a different analysis is applied to a constructed pseudo survey dataset, aimed to transform the observed social media data to a set of units from the target population. We elaborate systematically the relevant data quality frameworks, exemplify their applications and highlight some typical challenges associated with social media data.     

不同社交媒体平台上与企业相关的用户生成内容比较研究

本研究以小米和魅族两个手机品牌为例,采用关键词搜索和客观评判方法,对比了在新浪微博、人人网和优酷网上与这两个品牌相关的用户生成内容在数量、质量和情感方面的真实表现。通过对比研究发现：首先,不同社交媒体平台上与企业相关的用户生成内容在数量、质量和情感方面存在显著差异性;其次,企业在社交媒体上采用不同的营销策略对于与企业相关的用户生成内容数量、质量和情感有一定影响。这一研究结论弥补了理论界对此研究的不足,同时对于企业选择社交媒体开展营销活动有现实指导意义。     

Trending Now: Digital Leadership Education Using Social Media and the Social Change Model

The current article examines social media applications as a tool for positive social change. The number of users on applications from Facebook to Twitter and Instagram continues to increase in all demographics. These tools are being integrated into our daily activities and challenging boundaries, roles, and even possibilities globally. Currently, there exists a gap in developing competent leaders capable of leading change using social media. Education leaders and leadership education programs can adapt the values of the Social Change Model to reflect and apply digital competencies to their practice. Digital leadership requires reflection on online self‐awareness and congruence, grappling with the controversy that comes with cyber civility and how to be a digital citizen prepared to inspire positive social change.     

社会化媒体背景下企业公关危机处理新思路

当今社会已经进入了社会化媒体时代,人人都有手机,人们随时随地都能利用网络传播个人信息与观点。企业成为了一座时时刻刻被人们用放大镜围观的孤岛。因此,传统的危机公关正面临严峻的挑战。论文详细分析并总结了社会化媒体背景下运用传统的公关危机方法处理企业品牌危机存在的不足,并针对社会化媒体背景的特点提出了企业品牌危机处理的新思路。     

Corporate Sustainable Development and Marketing Communications on Social Media: Fortune 500 Enterprises

This study proposes a measurement to evaluate corporate sustainability marketing communications on social media implemented by Fortune 500 enterprises. The results reveal significant differences between sustainability marketing communications in blogs and on Facebook. This study makes theoretical contributions by proposing a customer‐centric SMC framework that integrates sustainability issues, stimulation of sustainable mindsets and encouragement of sustainable consumption. It also demonstrates how corporate sustainability marketing communications differ on different social media. In addition, practical suggestions are provided. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

社交媒体对大学生人际关系负面影响分析

社交媒体的网络空间属性和大学生的心理特殊性,使得社交媒体给大学生人际关系带来很多的负面影响,社交媒体带来的网络暴力由虚拟平台向现实生活蔓延,社交媒体给大学生人际关系带来更多压力,社交媒体增加大学生人际关系中的不确定因素。结合负面影响产生的原因,本文从法律层面、教育层面和学生管理层面分析解决这一问题的对策。     

Social Relations of Landed Property: Gentrification of a Polish Enclave in Brooklyn

Despite the extensive literature on ethnic enclaves in American cities, the role of landed property in ethnic enclave formation and transformation has received no attention to date. Drawing upon nearly four years of work as a tenant organizer, I address this issue by examining how the social relations of landed property have been integral to the formation, transformation, and deterioration of ethnic ties among Polish migrants in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Specifically, I argue that the social relations of property among Polish migrants—what I call “enclave property”—have enabled the acquisition, maintenance, and improvement of landed property in and through the production of ethnicity. With the gentrification of the neighborhood, however, the social relations of immigrant housing that helped produce the enclave in the 1980s and 1990s have been strained, and rising property values have transformed relations of ethnicity among Polish migrants into mechanisms for property accumulation by dispossession. The upshot has been the “hollowing out” of the enclave, as Polish migrant tenants have been displaced from Greenpoint, leaving behind a co‐ethnic landlord class and their wealthier American tenants.     

论新闻媒体在经济社会发展中的战略作用

新闻媒体作为主流的大众传媒,是传播社会重要信息的窗口,具备宣传、引导、教育组织、协调、监督等功能,这些功能对现代经济社会的发展有着不可替代的作用。其在社会主义市场经济发展中对产业发展起着重要的导向作用,推动着社会效益的实现,实现不同社会领域融合发展,同时也对经济社会的相关侧位面起到有效的监控作用。