Sub-theme 05: [SWG] Digitalization of Social Evaluations – Social Media, Platforms, and their Evaluative Roles
Convenors:
Mike Barnett, Rutgers University, USA
Michael Etter, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Anastasiya Zavyalova, Rice University, USA
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Agentic Qualities of Technology
Chair: Anastasiya Zavyalova
Hui Sun and Renwen Zhang
Algorithmic governance of value divergence on a user-generated content platform
Laura Illia, Nicole Giorgi and Diana Ingenhoff
The role of an Artificial Intelligent (AI) text agent in legitimation through deliberation
Andreas Georg Scherer and Cristina Neesham
Organized immaturity as an obstacle for social evaluation: Toward a critical theory of surveillance capitalism
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Scandals, Stigma, and Irresponsibility
Chair: Michael Etter
Dejun "Tony" Kong, Dezhi (Denny) Yin and Lin Jiang
Is moral outrage always contagious on social media?
Marco Clemente, Alessandro Piazza, Mike Mai and Joseph Porac
Status reset: How scandals affect the evaluative advantages of status
Giulio Nardella, Stephen Brammer, Jukka Rintamäki and Irina Surdu
What’s the harm in being remembered? Exploring the collective memory of corporate social irresponsibility and its influence
on corporate reputation
Itziar Castelló Molina, Laura Illia, Alessandra Zamparini and Nicole Giorgi
The micro-mechanisms of stigma formation
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Platforms and Professions
Chair: Anastasiya Zavyalova
Agathe Morinière, Irène Georgescu and Matilda Sea Bez
Emotional capitalism and digitalization: Exploring the implications of online patient evaluation for medical professionals
Sabrina A. Gottschalk and Luigi Mosca
The impact of job wellbeing on job seekers’ reactions to online firm evaluations
David J. Langley and Tijs Adriaan van den Broek
The dual role of employees in legitimacy judgment on social media
Siddhant Ritwick, Johanna Moisander and Kushagra Bhatnagar
The affective experiential regime – The impact of online lay evaluations on professional autonomy
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Online Communities
Chair: Michael Etter
James Wade, J. Cameron Verhaal and Stanislav Dobrev
Peer and social influence effects of authenticity on appeal in low and high-status categories in the US cigar industry
Katerina Antonopoulou and Christos Begkos
Pluralistic value creation on social media: Evidence from Greek Instagram community
Yinji Zhou and Simone Santoni
Reputation, competition, and pecking order in darknet markets: A natural experiment based on operation onymous
David A. Kirsch and Mohsen Chowdhury
Fanbois and fanbots: Entrepreneurial narratives and corporate computational propaganda
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Communication and Social Evaluations
Chair: Anastasiya Zavyalova
Anna Jasinenko, Patrick Haack and André Bächtiger
Legitimacy formation in online deliberation: The case of the Responsible Business Initiative
Toni Eagar, Meg Elkins and Anna E. Hartman
Countering work: Social media activism and vigilantism in defense of institutional belief
Daniel Lundgaard, Julie Uldam, Lukas Bogner and Anne Vestergaard
Sustainability and fear of criticism: Challenges to aspirational talk on social media
Cleo Silvestri
When evaluators are evaluated for their evaluations: An impression management perspective
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Emotions and Fame Online
Chair: Michael Etter
Jelena Brankovic, Astrid Van den Bossche and Morten Hansen
‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’ How student influencers use genre to query rankings as a form of organisational
evaluation
Paul Richard
Feeding off employees’ values: Managerial injunctions towards employees’ online-self
Agnieszka Kwapisz
Are emotions profitable? Subscription-based crowdfunding and gender
Syed Eraj Hassan
Organizational online hyper-celebrity and infamy: The ‘extremization’ of affective social evaluations on social media
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Reputation and Online Evaluations
Chair: Anastasiya Zavyalova
Carolin Waldner, Antoaneta Petkova and Jurgen Willems
Doing good while saving money? The formation of initial reputational perceptions about a new social venture
Fernando Vianna, Marcos Barros and Rafael Alcadipani
Cross platform reputation management: Online and offline interactions at Chocolat
Weiliang Zhang, Wei Wang, Michael Etter and Kaomeng Ni
The impact of socio-political context on organizational reputation: A study on Chinese online evaluations about Western products
Parham Ashur
Cultural Frames in Social Evaluations: Decoding Audience Dynamics and Responses
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Economia – A – 0_Magna Baffi
Ratings, Rankings, and Assessments
Chair: Michael Etter
Elanor Colleoni and Patrick Haack
The asymmetric impact of propriety-validity (in)congruence on organizational legitimacy assessments
Arijit A. Basu, Farjam Eshraghian and Sergio de Cesare
Discerning popularity of innovations on digital platforms using an exploratory developer motivational perspective framework
Jason Greenberg, Daniel B. Sands, Gino Cattani and Joseph Porac
Rating systems and increased heterogeneity in firm performance: Evidence from the New York City restaurant industry, 1994–2013