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Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's

Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018.

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Other Authors: Rensburg, Ronel S.
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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/67926 Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's Rensburg, Ronel S. juran@solidariteit.co.za Van den Heever, Juran Jurgens Unrestricted UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate whether a proposed online reputation management framework can be implemented for an NPO to determine whether content and conversations on social media have an influence on stakeholder engagement and whether such reputation can be managed. The study also assesses whether an NPO can afford greater control of the social web by tracking critical comments and negative publicity and by using it to manage the reputation of the organisation. The latter was achieved by exploring the Facebook page of a well-known South African trade union, Solidarity, to determine what the impact of online conversations on the reputation of the trade union is, regardless of the content. A case study was used in this research. This study departs from the phenomenology/interpretivist tradition and is aimed to study the interactions or behaviour of human beings and organisations in the social media world and what impact these have on the reputation of the organisation. During this case study, content analysis of texts and interviewing were used as methods for collecting data during the testing of the social media reputation framework. This research might assist NPOs in reputation management by implementing the online reputation management framework as a tool to manage and control their online content and conversations for the sake of reputation. Communication Management PhD Unrestricted 2018-12-05T08:06:00Z 2018-12-05T08:06:00Z 2009/05/18 2018 Thesis van den Heever, JJ 2018, Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67926> S2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67926 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
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Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's
title Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's
title_full Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's
title_fullStr Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's
title_full_unstemmed Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's
title_short Investigating social media conversations : towards designing an online reputation management framework for NGO's
title_sort investigating social media conversations towards designing an online reputation management framework for ngo s
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