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The Process Of Social Media Migration Among Young Professionals: A Grounded Theory, Maria Hermosa, Frauke Hachtmann Aug 2013

The Process Of Social Media Migration Among Young Professionals: A Grounded Theory, Maria Hermosa, Frauke Hachtmann

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to develop a theory that explains the process of social media migration among young professionals. The theoretical propositions that emerged from this qualitative study explain how different causal, intervening, and contextual conditions interact with and affect the phenomenon of social media migration. Internal and external pressures have an effect on young professionals’ decision to join new social media sites while abandoning others. Intervening and contextual conditions provide specific circumstances in which social media migration might occur. Integrating useful and organizational features to ease the use of social networks were important strategies in the process …


Once More With Feeling …The Art Of Wooing The Public, Singapore Management University Mar 2013

Once More With Feeling …The Art Of Wooing The Public, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Public relations is an art, declares Rose Tan, the doyenne of Singapore’s own sports public relations industry. And although it’s changing rapidly as communications cross multiple platforms, it’s still something that needs to come from the heart.