Matthias Trier

Presentation

I study phenomena related to electronic communication and social influence effects in online media within and outside the organization with a mixed methods approach that blends quantitative, qualitative and network analytical methods. Example topics include the implementation/appropriation of social media, online participation, framing electronic discourses (e.g. from a management perspective), information transfer, dissemination processes or bottom-up community emergence as a part of knowledge management initiatives. One special methodological focus is on developing an event-driven method for dynamic network analysis (see the corresponding software www.commetrix.net). It enables research into emerging structures and dynamic processes of networking among people. 

Primary research areas

• Collective/Collaborative Processes and Information Transfer
• Social Media Implementation, Appropriation and Use
• Dynamic Social Network Analysis
• Social Influence and Diffusion Processes online
• Social and Actor-level Aspects of E-Business

Courses

• Computer-mediated Communication and Collaboration
• Organization, Innovation, and Systems Design
• Communication and Knowledge Management
• Integrated Research Methods
• Social Media Analytics
• The Digital Battlefield

Supervision

• Innovation in Communities/Creative social online interaction
• Content-based Triggers of Web2.0 response activity/patterns
• Emergent Power Games in Online Settings
• Dynamics of Online Interaction
• Collective Social Media Adoption
• Online Social Identity and Sociability and Digital Business Models
• E-Business: Group Buying, Crowd Sourcing, Open Innovation, Trust
• Your related ideas