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Workplaces and Social Networking The Implications for Employment Relations

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This report sets out the results of a small-scale research project commissioned by Acas examining the implications of social networking and mobile information and communications technologies (ICT) for employment relations. Social networking involves use of an online platform or website that enables people to communicate, usually for a social purpose, through a variety of services, most of which are web-based and offer opportunities for people to interact over the internet, e.g. via e-mail and ‘instant messaging’1. As this is a relatively new phenomenon and there is no common international regulatory body, it is difficult to find an official or universally agreed definition. However, Boyd and Ellison’s overview of the field in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (2007) comments on the particular communication opportunities provided by social network sites (SNSs):

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: ., 2009

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