Discussion

The Obligatory Discussant

These are really nice research efforts, and SIOPers could be doing a lot more of this cutting edge work

Weidner et al., Schmidt et al., and Nguyen & Siu, are in one genre, whereas Landers & Callan is in another genre

Both kinds of work are needed and relevant to SIOP, but my comments below pertain more to the former genre and less to the latter

Three Things: #1

There's a lot of scholarship in this area (some of it good) that appears in conference proceedings instead of journals: CSCW, iConference, ACM SIGCHI, and HCI International... We need them AND they need us!

Three Things:#2Alternative and non-traditional employment arrangements are one of the fastest areas of job growth

Temps, independent contractors, contracted services, eLancers

The boundary between work and non-work use of social media may (have already) become much more fluid

Three Things: #3

Social networking and social media provide powerful new opportunities for data collection and analysis that can complement the use of employee surveys

Example: "twitteR" provides a simple DIY interface for extracting structured data from Twitter for statistical and/or text analysis (using the free and open source R statistics platform)