The Internet and social capital

Letture essenziali

Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Hypertechnological Growing Economy. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. In press.

We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and...

Antoci, F., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2012). See You on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital. Journal of Socio-Economics, DOI:j.socec.2012.04.024

Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last...

Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (4), article 1

This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site...

Letture importanti

Gentzkow, M., Shapiro, J. M. (2010). Ideological Segregation Online and Offline. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming

We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological...

Park, N., Kee, K. F., Valenzuela, S. (2009). Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14 (4), 875-901

This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college...

Gil de Zúñiga, H., Jung, N., Valenzuela, S. (2011). Social media use for news and individuals’ social capital, civic engagement and political participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, forthcoming

Traditional news use activates people’s civic and political involvement and is also related...

Matzat, U. (2010). Reducing problems of sociability in online communities: Integrating online communication with offline interaction. American Behavioral Scientist 53 (8), 1170-1193

Social network researchers claim that relations offline affect relations online. However, it is...

Bauernschuster, S., Falck, O., Woessmann, L. (2011). Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake. SOEP WP 392

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the...

Steinfield, C., Ellison, N., Lampe, C. (2008). Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 29 (6), 434-445

A longitudinal analysis of panel data from users of a popular online social network site, Facebook...

Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2014). Online networks and subjective well-being. MPRA Paper 56436.

Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results...

Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2014). E-participation: social capital and the Internet. MPRA Paper 55722.

We add to the literature by conducting the first empirical assessment of how online networking...

Geraci, A., Nardotto, M., Reggiani, T., Sabatini, F. (2018). Broadband Internet and social capital. IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from...

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Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2017). Online networks and subjective well-being. Kyklos 70(3), 456-480.

We test the relationship between the use of social networking sites (SNS) and a proxy of utility, i...

Safferling, C. (2011). Social Capital and Online Games. Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz 2011-32.

We use data from an online game economy and econometric matching methods to test whether social...

Sheldon, P. (2009). "I'll poke you. You'll poke me!" Self-disclosure, social attraction, predictability and trust as important predictors of Facebook relationships . Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 3(2), article 1.

The purpose of this research was to test how social attraction on Facebook influences self-...

Shen, C., Williams, D. (2010). Unpacking Time Online: Connecting Internet and MMO use with Psychosocial Well-being. Communication Research, in press

By unpacking different forms of Internet and MMO use, the present study adopts a nuanced approach...

Smith, A. (2011). 22% of online Americans used social networking or Twitter for politics in 2010 campaign. Pew Internet & American Life Research Center

After first gaining prominence as tools for political engagement during the 2008 presidential...

Stern, M., Adams, A. (2010). Do Rural Residents Really Use the Internet to Build Social Capital? An Empirical Investigation. American Behavioral Scientist 53 (9) 1389-1422.

Recent research suggests that Internet usage can positively influence social capital in rural...

Subrahmanyam, K., Reich, S. M., Waechter, N., Espinoza, G. (2008). Online and offline social networks: Use of social networking sites by emerging adults. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 29,420–433.

Social networking sites (e.g., MySpace and Facebook) are popular online communication forms among...

Trentacosti, F. (2011). Social Capital, Happiness and Social Networking Sites. Surfing Alone: do countries with higher numbers of users in online communities have higher happiness levels? Msc Dissertation in Development Economics, University of Sussex

Fabrizio Trentacosti MSc Development Economics – University of Sussex Supervisor: Dr....

Williams, D. (2006). On and Off the ’Net: Scales for Social Capital in an Online Era. Journal of Computer-Mediated CommunicationVolume 11 (2)

Scholars investigating the relationship between the Internet and social capital have been stymied...

Zhang, W., Johnson, T. J., Seltzer, T., Bichard, S. L. (2010). The Revolution Will be Networked. The Influence of Social Networking Sites on Political Attitudes and Behavior. Social Science Computer Review 28 (1), 75-92

Social networking is a phenomenon of interest to many scholars. While most of the recent research...

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