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In this work, the level of influence of the posts published by famous people on social networks on the formation of the cryptocurrency exchange rate is investigated. Celebrities who are familiar with the financial industry, especially with the cryptocurrency market, or are somehow connected to a certain cryptocurrency, such as Elon Musk with Dogecoin, are chosen as experts whose influence through social media posts on cryptocurrency rates is examined. This research is conducted based on statistical analysis. Real cryptocurrency exchange rate forecasts for the selected time period and predicted ones for the same period, obtained using three algorithms, are utilized as a dataset. This paper uses methods such as statistical hypotheses regarding the significance of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and Pearson’s correlation. It is confirmed that the posts by famous people on social networks significantly affect the exchange rates of cryptocurrencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every utterance produced by a speaker has its own type and function. However, this research focuses on illocutionary speech acts. This research aims to describe the types and functions of illocutionary speech acts in the conversation between Elon Musk and the moderator at TED Talk 2022 and describe the function of these speech acts. This data is in the form of sentences and clauses in conversations between Elon Musk and Chris Anderson which contain illocutionary acts. The data source was collected through observation methods using transcribing and note-taking techniques by watching and listening to video to know the context. The data is analyzed qualitatively using the theory proposed by Searle to study various types of illocutionary acts, followed by the theory proposed by Leech regarding the functions of illocutionary acts. The data analysis method used in this study is constant comparative or often called the equivalent method. The problems in this research are (1) What speech acts are contained in the conversation between Elon Musk and the moderator and (2) What is the function of each utterance. The results show that there are 4 types of speech acts in the conversation between Elon Musk and the moderator, namely (1) Assertive, (2) Directive, (3) Commissive, and (4) Expressive. Based on the function of illocutionary speech, two functions are obtained, namely (1) Collaborative function and (2) Convival function. The researcher suggests that further research needs to be carried out to understand illocutionary acts in conversation to be able to provide information and it is also necessary to pay attention to the context and situation to understand the meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current state of social media research struggles to keep pace with a social media ecosystem that features quickly proliferating new platforms and the reinvention of existing platforms. In this perspective article, we encourage social media researchers to adopt systems thinking perspectives to cope with this reality. By thinking systemically, we hope that scholars of social media may be able to uncover complex phenomena that may help to address some of the wicked problems in social media research. We also hope that the field may benefit from scholars discussing the implications of their work in ways that relate to the systemic context of the social media platforms that they study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even after Elon Musk announced Twitter Blue, subscription services such as Snapchat+, YouTube Premium and Meta Verified, remain an uncritiqued aspect of social media. Within this article, subscription services on social media take centre stage. This article focuses on three key points: First, subscription services have remained uncritiqued because of the blind spot created by the emphasis on data collection. Second, the Social Media Subscription Model (SMSM) now asserts social media as part of a mixed model (Fuchs 2020, 134) instead of only being considered as an advertising model. Third, applying the classical Marxian twist of capitalism as self-negating, the SMSM is also a structural response to a contradiction of "peak data", meaning how does social media sustain itself if commodifies all data? Stressing the necessity of viewing the SMSM and social media as part of a Mixed Model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The contemporary business environment steered by forces of globalization, digitization and automation can only be navigated by a resilient workforce. This requires inculcating self-leadership (SL) traits in individuals, which will allow them to exercise self-direction and self-motivation required to survive high-strain situations. The SL characteristics most significantly reflected by Musk are self-goal setting, authenticity and responsibility. Least evidence was found for positive self-talk and self-cueing. This study aims to add to the repertoire of leadership studies, furnishing important implications for academia and practice. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, the authors explore the dimensionality of SL through a systematic literature review. The authors also take the case of Elon Musk, one of the most resilient technopreneurs in the contemporary business world, and scrutinize his journey as a self-leader. Findings: The SL characteristics most significantly reflected by Musk are self-goal setting, authenticity and responsibility. Least evidence was found for positive self-talk and self-cueing. This study adds to the repertoire of leadership studies, furnishing important implications for academia and practice. Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper to explore the controversial Elon Musk's leadership style through the prism of SL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The migration of Twitter users to Mastodon following Elon Musk's acquisition presents a unique opportunity to study collective behavior and gain insights into the drivers of coordinated behavior in online media. We analyzed the social network and the public conversations of about 75,000 migrated users and observed that the temporal trace of their migrations is compatible with a phenomenon of social influence, as described by a compartmental epidemic model of information diffusion. Drawing from prior research on behavioral change, we delved into the factors that account for variations of the effectiveness of the influence process across different Twitter communities. Communities in which the influence process unfolded more rapidly exhibit lower density of social connections, higher levels of signaled commitment to migrating, and more emphasis on shared identity and exchange of factual knowledge in the community discussion. These factors account collectively for 57% of the variance in the observed data. Our results highlight the joint importance of network structure, commitment, and psycho-linguistic aspects of social interactions in characterizing grassroots collective action, and contribute to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms that drive processes of behavior change of online groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employing a critical approach typical of humanities-based research, this article investigates the changing nature of toxic leadership in our digital world. Drawing on the perspective of media ecology, which asserts that the prevailing communication technologies at a given moment create the social conditions that, in turn, condition us, the authors illustrate how the digital logics of publicity, intransigence, impertinence, and impulsivity remake the contours of leadership. Based on a critical case study of Elon Musk's public management of Twitter, which has subsequently been rebranded as "X", it is argued that the four digital logics transform toxic leadership into digital authoritarianism, an unabashed form of authoritarian rule. A concluding section of the essay explores the implications of this evolution for traditional categories of leadership; the importance of attending to communication technologies in leadership research; and the individual, institutional, and social harms of digital authoritarianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the prominence of Durkheim in social theory, various threads of work did continue around the processes of private people coming together to form publics that cut across social categories such as collective identity. (https://twitter.com/fstflofscholars/status/1589273618995109892) The observation about Twitter and what constitutes the social here is apt and seems to be what Musk is missing. On October 27, 2022, the world's wealthiest person walked into the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter Inc. carrying a kitchen sink. Back in the spring of 2022, Musk posted a tweet saying, "Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy" (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777261654605828). [Extracted from the article]

Se presenta un editorial que discute sobre la evolución en el ámbito empresarial, como el cambio de nombre de Facebook a Meta y la adquisición de Twitter por Elon Musk. También se destaca el papel creciente de la inteligencia artificial, incluyendo el uso de GPT-4 y la discusión en torno a su regulación. Se examina cómo la inteligencia artificial se utiliza en la investigación científica y se enfatiza la necesidad de transparencia y ética en su uso. El artículo concluye con un análisis de diversos artículos académicos en el ámbito de la comunicación y el audiovisual.

Purpose: Instead of merely adding a socially popular mission to its existing business goals, Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has innovated its operations by working backwards from its mission of saving the planet by making and selling a vast number of electric cars in order to help remove a principal cause of an approaching global environmental disaster. Design/methodology/approach: When Elon Musk became CEO in 2008, Tesla's mission of saving the planet by replacing gasoline-driven cars with electric cars seemed a preposterous overreach. Findings: Tesla is not only making extraordinary progress towards the accomplishment of its mission, but the mission serves as an accelerator of its business generally and its innovations in particular. Practical implications: The example of CEO Musk showing up on the factory floor, and working shoulder to shoulder with the staff in teams and mobs to solve urgent bottleneck issues sets the tone of Tesla's workplace. The overriding preoccupation with accelerating innovation is enabled by modularity in design. Originality/value: A unique study of Tesla's post-Agile management innovations by an expert on Agile teams and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a textual analysis that explains how Elon Musk's sentiments in his Twitter content correlates with price and volatility in the Bitcoin market using the dynamic conditional correlation-generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model, allowing less sensitive to window size than traditional models. After examining 10,850 tweets containing 157,378 words posted from December 2017 to May 2021 and rigorously controlling other determinants, we found that the tone of the world's wealthiest person can drive the Bitcoin market, having a Granger causal relation with returns. In addition, Musk is likely to use positive words in his tweets, and reversal effects exist in the relationship between Bitcoin prices and the optimism presented by Tesla's CEO. However, we did not find evidence to support linkage between Musk's sentiments and Bitcoin volatility. Our results are also robust when using a different cryptocurrency, i.e., Ether this paper extends the existing literature about the mechanisms of social media content generated by influential accounts on the Bitcoin market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses judicial decisions related to mergers and acquisitions reported by the Annual Survey Working Group. In Crispo v. Musk, a motion was granted by the Delaware Court of Chancery to dismiss, in part, holding that Luigi Crispo did not have standing to seek an order of specific performance of a merger agreement against Elon Musk and entities he controlled. In SPay, Inc. v. Stack Media Inc., the Court denied a motion to dismiss a buyer's claims for breach of contract and others.

The article focuses on four case summaries, including Tesla's dilemma in entering the Indian electric car market, a financial model for a new dealership, cultural conflicts in New York City, and the competitive rivalry in the global semiconductor market. Topics discussed include market entry strategy, valuation, cultural differences, and geopolitical scenarios.

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Sex ratio theory suggests why mating practices have become dysfunctional in the West and other regions. Spain, Japan, and over 20 other nations are on course to have their populations halved by 2100, dramatically aging their citizenry. Experts and opinion makers warn that a demographic collapse cannot be absorbed by our current social order; Elon Musk proclaims this to be "the biggest threat to human civilization." Statistics from the Nordic countries--the world's most gender-equal region--indicate that subjective perceptions of the sex ratio in modern environments drive singledom and low reproduction. Scandinavia has the world's highest occurrence of one-person households: 43-46%. In the past decade, the Norwegian fertility rate dropped from 2.0 to 1.5. Sex ratio studies suggest that women's perception of there being few acceptable partners activates a polygynous mindset, which in prosperous, monogamous societies drives promiscuity to the detriment of pair-bonding. More than 6 million years of hominin evolution under promiscuous, polygynous, and monogamous regimes shaped mate preferences that evoke different cultural and behavioral responses as environments change. The Church's imposition of lifelong monogamy contributed to the emergence of the modern world, but if this world's gender-equal societies no longer motivate reproduction, being more open to polygyny could be worth considering as a means for increasing fertility. This article makes this case by exploring hominin mating from our last common ancestor with chimpanzees--through the genus Homo's forager and agricultural periods--to modern Scandinavians. In the past millennium, mating practices have coevolved with the emergence of modernity, necessitating frequent cultural updates. An evolutionary analysis of Nordic works of literature illuminates the ways in which ideological narratives influence reproductive norms. The insights gleaned are considered in the context of people's perceived sex ratio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Twitter, one of the most important social media platforms, has been in the headlines regularly since its acquisition by Elon Musk in October 2022. This acquisition has had a strong impact on the employees, functionality, and discourse on Twitter. So far, however, there has been no analysis that examines the perception of the acquisition by the users on the platform itself. For this purpose, in this paper, we use georeferenced Tweets from the US and classify them using a polarity-based sentiment analysis. We find that the number of Tweets about Twitter and Elon Musk has increased significantly, as have negative sentiments on the subject. Using a spatial hot spot analysis, we find distinct centres of discourse, but no clear evidence of their significant change over time. On the West Coast, however, we suspect the first signs of polarisation, which could be an important indication for the future development of discourse on Twitter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space has long cultivated the human imagination. For eons, man has looked to it for guidance and inspiration. The earliest seafarers relied on the stars to navigate the Earth’s oceans; the faithful of many a religion beseeched the heavens for guidance; and the philosopher, the artist, the writer, and the poet looked to the endless sky for inspiration. As early as the 1800, that fascination had morphed into something deeper and fantastical at the time. The idea of man embarking boldly into space, a devout confidence that our destiny as species was no longer exclusively tied to the Earth. The rapid development of spaceflight technology during the space race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R in the Cold War era made such earlier fantastical propositions now a plausible, if still distant reality. The national governments of states around the world scrambled to formulate new laws, regulations, and international treaties to deal with the rapidly changing reality of spaceflight. These laws and treaties, products of their time, acknowledged the possible assistance of non-state actors, but never truly accounted for the possibility of a mostly or wholly civilian space market; a market that has rapidly begun to grow and expand as state actors, like NASA, have started withdrawing from direct activity and ceding exclusive control of the field. The void left by this withdraw has created a “Gold Rush”- like market, and billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have rushed in to capitalize on the opportunities now open those with the capital and means to take advantage of them. These investors (and prospective ones), however, are not only contemplating just trips into space. They are looking farfurther, to the possible mining of resource-rich and plentiful space bodies, and even the colonization of other celestial bodies. The law, domestically and internationally, and whether it be treaty or regulatory, lags far behind in this field, and is woefully obsolete or even simply absent. This note examines the most important historical and current treaty and regulatory efforts in the field across several key areas of concern (including: health & safety, environment, property rights & wealth inequality, and international competition and government cooperation) and provides possible solutions to these concerns and a way forward that will allow mankind to continue to embark on its new destiny amongst the stars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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