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The Meaning of Social Web: A Framework for Identifying Emerging Media Business Models

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In order to create a basis for future empirical inquiries, this paper presents a crossdisciplinary review of literature on Social Web and similar concepts by mapping them in a conceptual framework inspired by the Phaneroscopy and semiotics of the American philosopher C. S. Peirce. The relevance of the framework is demonstrated by an analysis of literature on blogs. The paper concludes by outlining the main challenges that the Social Web poses for traditional media companies, specifically newspapers.

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Rasmussen, S. (2011). The Meaning of Social Web: A Framework for Identifying Emerging Media Business Models. In: Carugati, A., Rossignoli, C. (eds) Emerging Themes in Information Systems and Organization Studies. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2739-2_18

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