Department of Business Administration, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy.
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2021 Apr;24(4):215-222. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0134. Epub 2020 Oct 13.
In this article, the authors present the results from a structured review of the literature, identifying and analyzing the most quoted and dominant definitions of social media (SM) and alternative terms that were used between 1994 and 2019 to identify their major applications. Similarities and differences in the definitions are highlighted to provide guidelines for researchers and managers who use results from previous research to further study SM or to find practical applications. In other words, when reading an article about SM, it is essential to understand how the researchers defined SM and how results from articles that use different definitions can be compared. This article is intended to act as a guideline for readers of those articles.
在这篇文章中，作者呈现了对文献的系统回顾结果，识别和分析了在 1994 年至 2019 年间最常被引用和主导的社交媒体 (SM) 的定义以及替代术语，并分析了它们的主要应用。突出了定义中的相似点和不同点，为使用先前研究结果进一步研究 SM 或寻找实际应用的研究人员和管理人员提供了指导。换句话说，当阅读关于 SM 的文章时，了解研究人员如何定义 SM 以及如何比较使用不同定义的文章的结果是至关重要的。本文旨在为这些文章的读者提供指导。
