Paper ID
2650
Paper Type
short
Description
Social media proliferate in personal and business life and facilitate professionals’ learning through information seeking without spatial and temporal restrictions. Although prior studies have begun to investigate linkages between social media and professionals’ learning, they have yet to scrutinize characteristics of social media-based learning by considering features of social media. Whether this type of learning can result in favorable outcomes remains a mystery for scholars and practitioners. Accordingly, we develop a construct termed social media-enabled fragmented learning to conceptualize the phenomenon where professionals use multiple social media tools to learn for work-oriented purposes at any time and place. A nomological network is designed to explain the value of this type of learning. A measurement scale can be developed for future empirical work. This study expects to contribute to literature on social media, workplace learning, and adult learning, and provide suggestions for managers and professionals.
Recommended Citation
Wang, Youying and Huang, Qian, "Conceptualizing social media-enabled fragmented learning of business professionals" (2019). ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 8.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/learning_environ/learning_environ/8
Conceptualizing social media-enabled fragmented learning of business professionals
Social media proliferate in personal and business life and facilitate professionals’ learning through information seeking without spatial and temporal restrictions. Although prior studies have begun to investigate linkages between social media and professionals’ learning, they have yet to scrutinize characteristics of social media-based learning by considering features of social media. Whether this type of learning can result in favorable outcomes remains a mystery for scholars and practitioners. Accordingly, we develop a construct termed social media-enabled fragmented learning to conceptualize the phenomenon where professionals use multiple social media tools to learn for work-oriented purposes at any time and place. A nomological network is designed to explain the value of this type of learning. A measurement scale can be developed for future empirical work. This study expects to contribute to literature on social media, workplace learning, and adult learning, and provide suggestions for managers and professionals.