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10.01.2017

Uncovering stakeholders in public–private relations on social media: a case study of the 2015 Volkswagen scandal

verfasst von: Kyujin Jung, Kenneth Chilton, Jesus N. Valero

Erschienen in: Quality & Quantity | Ausgabe 3/2017

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Abstract

While researchers have focused on the nature of interpersonal communication on social media, few have investigated the patterns and structures of interactions among stakeholders engaged in an unexpected event. On September 18, 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation of the U.S. Clean Air Act to Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., citing Volkswagen’s inappropriate software that circumvented the United States’ emission standards. This research is systemically designed to examine the evolutionary structures of interpersonal issue networks on social media by focusing on the 2015 Volkswagen scandal on social media. The interpersonal network emerged and evolved to build a discourse on issues by stakeholders after the event. By using longitudinal data collected from the Volkswagen USA’s Facebook page between September 17 and 20, 2015, this research tests four hypothesized network structures, which are reciprocity, transitivity, popularity, and activity, which assess the evolution of interpersonal issue networks. The results of exponential random graph models, analyzing 4131 stakeholders, show that interpersonal issue networks on social media have evolved overtime into a set of reciprocal relations and stakeholders transmitting critical information to bystanders. The findings imply that stakeholders who have Volkswagen’s cars and stocks play a critical role in placating the scandal by mutually interacting with diverse bystanders on social media.

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Metadaten
Titel
Uncovering stakeholders in public–private relations on social media: a case study of the 2015 Volkswagen scandal
verfasst von
Kyujin Jung
Kenneth Chilton
Jesus N. Valero
Publikationsdatum
10.01.2017
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Quality & Quantity / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-016-0462-7

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