COMM 2F00 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Capital Accumulation, Social Capital
2 Jan 2017
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The benefits of facebook (cid:498)friends(cid:499): social capital and college students" use of http://onlinelibrary. wiley. com/doi/10. 1111/j. 1083-6101. 2007. 00367. x/full. Social capital has been linked to a variety of positive social outcomes, such as better public health, lower crime rates, and more efficient financial markets (adler & kwon, 2002) For individuals, social capital allows a person to draw on resources from other members of the networks to which he or she belongs the internet has been linked both to increases and decreases in social capital. Nie (2001), for example, argued that internet use detracts from face-to-face time with others, which might diminish an individual"s social capital. Some researchers have claimed that online interactions may supplement or replace in-person interactions, mitigating any loss from time spent online (wellman, haase, witte, & hampton, 2001) Some research has shown, for example, that the internet might help individuals with low psychological well-being due to few ties to friends and neighbors (bargh & mckenna, 2004).
