The Strength of Weak Ties in Online Social Networks  -  Jonthon Coulson

KORTE INHOUD

The use of online social networks such as Facebook.com are hypothesized to be affecting Robert Putnam s (1995) theory of social capital. The research method is modeled after Dhavan Shah s (2005) Information>Communication>Participation model. This study found that users of these sites tend to have an equal or greater likelihood of engaging in citizen communication or civic participation if they use social networks for informational purposes. Qualitative data indicates that users of online social networks com...
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Uitgever: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH KG 80 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 3838369653 ISBN-13: 9783838369655