The Identification and Influence of Social Roles in a Social Media Product Community
研究在消费者对消费者的社交媒体产品社区中识别了十种核心社会角色，并解释了这些角色如何通过定位参与社区动态，促进烹饪作为社会实践的创造和传播。
This research focuses on the identification of social roles and an investigation of their influence in online context. Relying on a systemic approach for role conceptualization, we investigate member's activity, shared content and position in the network within a consumer to consumer social media-based community (SMC) around a product. This investigation led to the identification of ten core roles, based on three key elements: object of interest (product, practice, and community), main contribution type (sharing information and seeking information), individual orientation (factual, emotional). We propose an explanation about how these roles, through their positioning, participate in the community dynamics and how they contribute to the creation and diffusion of cookery as a social practice, shaping the periphery around this practice.