Brian S Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian S Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian S |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5863-1540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stories of impact
Does Anything Ever Happen Around Here? Assessing the Online Information Landscape for Local Events
Local events foster community pride, cohesion, and community attachment. Keeping residents informed about the existence of local events is necessary to reach events’ targeted audiences and realize their positive consequences. This article reports on an initial study of the online event information landscape of neighborhoods in a mid-sized US city. Our results show that the event information landscape is highly fragmented, decentralized, and has l…
Dialectic Tensions of Information Quality
The hiring process is challenging as the lack of quality information limits the discovery of the true nature of candidates, potentially leading to adverse impacts. Social networking sites (SNSs) have emerged as a potential source for candidate information with more than one billion profiles online. While abundant, the quality of this information for hiring is questionable. Utilizing qualitative interview data, the paper finds issues of quality to…
Rules and Roles vs. Consensus
Deliberative mass collaboration systems, such as Wikipedia, are characterized as undisciplined, unstructured social spaces where individuals participate in collective action. However, examination of Wikipedia reveals that it contains a bureaucratic structure, which ensures that collective goals are primary drivers of that collective action. To support large-scale activity, deliberative mass collaboration systems must provide ways of reconciling t…
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries
The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastructures will reinforce the position of traditional inte…
Coordination and Virtualization
One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make it easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers have on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with …
A Legend in the Making
The quality of online social relationships
Online relationships are less valuable than offline ones. Indeed, their net benefit depends on whether they supplement or substitute for offline social relationships.
Designing Interactive Worlds With Words
No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic report, the letter to the editor). Concealed between g…
Gain ground and glory’
(1992). ‘Gain ground and glory’: metropolitan athletic clubs and the promotion of American football – the case of the Louisville athletic club. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 378-396
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries
The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastructures will reinforce the position of traditional inte…
Stories of impact
Dialectic Tensions of Information Quality
The hiring process is challenging as the lack of quality information limits the discovery of the true nature of candidates, potentially leading to adverse impacts. Social networking sites (SNSs) have emerged as a potential source for candidate information with more than one billion profiles online. While abundant, the quality of this information for hiring is questionable. Utilizing qualitative interview data, the paper finds issues of quality to…
Coordination and Virtualization
One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make it easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers have on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with …
Gain ground and glory’
(1992). ‘Gain ground and glory’: metropolitan athletic clubs and the promotion of American football – the case of the Louisville athletic club. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 378-396
Gain ground and glory’
(1992). ‘Gain ground and glory’: metropolitan athletic clubs and the promotion of American football – the case of the Louisville athletic club. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 378-396
Designing Interactive Worlds With Words
No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic report, the letter to the editor). Concealed between g…
The quality of online social relationships
Online relationships are less valuable than offline ones. Indeed, their net benefit depends on whether they supplement or substitute for offline social relationships.
A Legend in the Making
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries
The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastructures will reinforce the position of traditional inte…
Coordination and Virtualization
One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make it easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers have on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with …
Dialectic Tensions of Information Quality
The hiring process is challenging as the lack of quality information limits the discovery of the true nature of candidates, potentially leading to adverse impacts. Social networking sites (SNSs) have emerged as a potential source for candidate information with more than one billion profiles online. While abundant, the quality of this information for hiring is questionable. Utilizing qualitative interview data, the paper finds issues of quality to…
Rules and Roles vs. Consensus
Deliberative mass collaboration systems, such as Wikipedia, are characterized as undisciplined, unstructured social spaces where individuals participate in collective action. However, examination of Wikipedia reveals that it contains a bureaucratic structure, which ensures that collective goals are primary drivers of that collective action. To support large-scale activity, deliberative mass collaboration systems must provide ways of reconciling t…
Does Anything Ever Happen Around Here? Assessing the Online Information Landscape for Local Events
Local events foster community pride, cohesion, and community attachment. Keeping residents informed about the existence of local events is necessary to reach events’ targeted audiences and realize their positive consequences. This article reports on an initial study of the online event information landscape of neighborhoods in a mid-sized US city. Our results show that the event information landscape is highly fragmented, decentralized, and has l…
Stories of impact
Computer Science (9 works) · Business (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · American Sports and Literature (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)