This link has been bookmarked by 251 people and liked by 1 people. It was first bookmarked on 15 Oct 2007, by tetyana tt.
-
06 Aug 13
-
The Facebook intensity scale
-
-
10 May 13
melissafungSocial networking site Facebook acts as a socialization agent to maintain offline communication
-
Our participants overwhelmingly used Facebook to keep in touch with old friends and to maintain or intensify relationships characterized by some form of offline connection such as dormitory proximity or a shared class. For many, Facebook provided a way to keep in touch with high school friends and acquaintances.
-
-
18 Dec 12
-
we can definitively state that there is a positive relationship between certain kinds of Facebook use and the maintenance and creation of social capital
-
highly engaged users are using Facebook to crystallize relationships that might otherwise remain ephemeral
-
create latent tie connectivity among group members that provides the technical means for activating weak ties"
-
It can lower barriers to participation and therefore may encourage the formation of weak ties but not necessarily create the close kinds of relationships that are associated with bonding social capital. Yet the strong coefficient for Facebook intensity suggests that Facebook use is important for bonding social capital as well. One explanation is that it may help individuals to maintain pre-existing close relationships,
-
-
22 Oct 12
-
Much of the early research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group or location, liberating them to form communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared geography (Wellman, Salaff, Dimitrova, Garton, Gulia, & Haythornthwaite, 1996)
-
-
-
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital
-
one's ability to stay connected
-
might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction
-
20 minutes a day on the site
-
identity presentation and privacy concerns
-
resources accumulated through the relationships among people
-
better public health, lower crime rates, and more efficient financial markets
-
declining in the U.S. for the past several years
-
increased social disorder, reduced participation in civic activities, and potentially more distrust among community members.
-
may also be used for negative purposes
-
former
-
bridging and bonding social capital
-
weak ties,
-
bonding social capital is found between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationships
-
importance of Internet-based linkages for the formation of weak ties
-
Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived bridging social capital.
-
Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived bonding social capital.
-
heavy Internet users rely on email to maintain long distance relationships, rather than using it as a substitute for offline interactions with those living nearby.
-
friendsickness
-
Granovetter (1973, 1982) has suggested that weak ties provide more benefit when the weak tie is not associated with stronger ties
-
Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived maintained social capital.
-
Facebook Intensity
-
number of Facebook "friends" and the amount of time spent on Facebook on a typical day
-
Self-Esteem
-
Satisfaction with Life at MSU
-
measures of social capital
-
bridging, bonding, and maintained social capital
-
10 and 30 minutes on average using Facebook
-
150 and 200 friends
-
offline connection
-
maintaining connections to former high school classmates
-
primary audience for their profile to be people with whom they share an offline connection
-
supporting Hypothesis 1
-
see if gender or time at MSU accounted for variation in the association between bridging social capital and Facebook use. These interactions were not significant and are not included in the table.
-
independent factors accounted for nearly half of the variance in bridging social capital
-
Facebook is indeed implicated in students' efforts to develop and maintain bridging social capital at college
-
Both hypotheses, which predicted that the relationship between Facebook use and bridging social capital would vary based upon the degree of self-esteem and satisfaction with life, are supported
-
definitively state that there is a positive relationship between certain kinds of Facebook use and the maintenance and creation of social capital
-
keep in touch with old friends and to maintain or intensify relationships characterized by some form of offline connection such as dormitory proximity or a shared class
-
geographically-bound user base.6
-
can help students accumulate and maintain bridging social capital.
-
weak ties
-
maintain such ties cheaply and easily
-
crystallize relationships that might otherwise remain ephemeral
-
Facebook use may be helping to overcome barriers faced by students who have low satisfaction and low self-esteem.
-
Bonding social capital was also predicted by high self-esteem, satisfaction with university life, and intense Facebook use
-
much less useful for maintaining or creating bonding social capital,
-
increased levels of maintained social capital
-
Internet use alone did not predict social capital accumulation, but intensive use of Facebook did.
-
-
04 Oct 12
Isabella BruniThis study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of undergraduate students (N=286) suggest a strong association between use of Facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest relationship being to bridging social capital. In addition, Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
-
20 Jul 12
-
13 Mar 12
-
10 Mar 12
-
07 Mar 12
Stacey KizerThis study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of undergraduate students (N=286) suggest a strong association between use of Facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest relationship being to bridging social capital. In addition, Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
-
22 Feb 12
-
15 Feb 12
-
opl e
-
opl e
-
people they already know offline or to meet new people
-
enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate "friends" who can post comments on each other's pages, and view each other's profiles
-
romantic relationship status through the profiles
-
they "browse" for complete strangers to meet
-
relationships are formed or abandoned
-
email and instant messaging help college students remain close to their high school friends
-
social capital after this major life change experienced by college students
-
maintain social connections from high school.
-
completely abandoning these high school networks would mean a loss of social capital
-
maintained relationships with high school acquaintances
-
maintain existing connections or meet new people.
-
relationship between Facebook use and bridging social capital would vary based upon the degree of self-esteem and satisfaction with life
-
low self-esteem appeared to gain in bridging social capital
-
-
09 Feb 12
-
The fact that nearly all Facebook users include their high school name in their profile (96%) suggests that maintaining connections to former high school classmates is a strong motivation for using Facebook.
-
03 Feb 12
-
24 Jan 12
-
20 Jan 12
-
individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others. These sites can be oriented towards work-related contexts (e.g., LinkedIn.com), romantic relationship initiation (the original goal of Friendster.com), connecting those with shared interests such as music or politics (e.g., MySpace.com), or the college student population (the original incarnation of Facebook.com). Participants may use the sites to interact with people they already know offline or to meet new people
-
Online SNSs support both the maintenance of existing social ties and the formation of new connections
-
The typical user spends about 20 minutes a day on the site, and two-thirds of users log in at least once a day
-
Internet use detracts from face-to-face time with others, which might diminish an individual's social capital.
-
researchers have emphasized the importance of Internet-based linkages for the formation of weak ties, which serve as the foundation of bridging social capital
-
The strong linkage between Facebook use and high school connections suggests how SNSs help maintain relations as people move from one offline community to another. It may facilitate the same when students graduate from college, with alumni keeping their school email address and using Facebook to stay in touch with the college community. Such connections could have strong payoffs in terms of jobs, internships, and other opportunities
-
Online social network sites may play a role different from that described in early literature on virtual communities. Online interactions do not necessarily remove people from their offline world but may indeed be used to support relationships and keep people in contact, even when life changes move them away from each other.
-
-
14 Jan 12
-
Facebook has garnered a very strong percentage of users on college campuses. In our sample, 94% of the undergraduate students we surveyed were Facebook members.
-
having between 150 and 200 friends listed on their profile
-
more Facebook use involving people with whom they share an offline connection—either an existing friend, a classmate, someone living near them, or someone they met socially
-
nearly all Facebook users include their high school name in their profile (96%)
-
maintaining connections to former high school classmates is a strong motivation for using Facebook
-
97% report that high school friends had seen their profile
-
primary audience for their profile to be people with whom they share an offline connection
-
acebook primarily to maintain existing offline relationships or to solidify what would otherwise be ephemeral, temporary acquaintanceships
-
Students reporting low satisfaction and low self-esteem appeared to gain in bridging social capital if they used Facebook more intensely, suggesting that the affordances of the SNS might be especially helpful for these students.
-
-
11 Jan 12
-
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. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html
-
Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of undergraduate students (N=286) suggest a strong association between use of Facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest relationship being to bridging social capital. In addition, Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
-
The typical user spends about 20 minutes a day on the site, and two-thirds of users log in at least once a day (Cassidy, 2006; Needham & Company, 2007)
-
Much of the existing academic research on Facebook has focused on identity presentation and privacy concerns (e.g., Gross & Acquisti, 2005; Stutzman, 2006)
-
Other recent Facebook research examines student perceptions of instructor presence and self-disclosure (Hewitt & Forte, 2006; Mazer, Murphy, & Simonds, 2007)
-
Social capital broadly refers to the resources accumulated through the relationships among people (Coleman, 1988)
-
it is possible that new forms of social capital and relationship building will occur in online social network sites
-
Overall, our independent factors accounted for nearly half of the variance in bridging social capital. The results suggest that Facebook is indeed implicated in students' efforts to develop and maintain bridging social capital at college, although we cannot assess causal direction.
-
Students reporting low satisfaction and low self-esteem appeared to gain in bridging social capital if they used Facebook more intensely, suggesting that the affordances of the SNS might be especially helpful for these students.
-
Returning to our original research question, we can definitively state that there is a positive relationship between certain kinds of Facebook use and the maintenance and creation of social capital. Although we cannot say which precedes the other, Facebook appears to play an important role in the process by which students form and maintain social capital
-
only one community
-
-
09 Jan 12
Bill Guineethinking about facebook friends in terms of cultural capital - from forte syllabus
-
23 Nov 11
Tracy TutenIn the past week, on average, approximately how many minutes per day have you spent on Facebook?
0=less than 10, 1=10-30, 2=31-60, 3=1-2 hours, 4=2-3 hours, 5=more than 3 hours 1.07 1.16
Facebook is part of my everyday activity 3.12 1.26
I am proud to tell people I'm on Facebook 3.24 0.89
Facebook has become part of my daily routine 2.96 1.32
I feel out of touch when I haven't logged onto Facebook for a while 2.29 1.20
I feel I am part of the Facebook community 3.30 1.01
I would be sorry if Facebook shut down 3.45 1.14smm capital social capital Facebook chp4 measures stats 2007
-
17 Nov 11
-
04 Nov 11
-
These sites can be oriented towards work-related contexts (e.g., LinkedIn.com), romantic relationship initiation (the original goal of Friendster.com), connecting those with shared interests such as music or politics (e.g., MySpace.com)
-
Created in 2004
-
-
27 Sep 11
-
24 Sep 11
-
22 Sep 11
-
19 Sep 11
-
14 Sep 11
-
13 Sep 11
-
social capital
-
social capital
-
online and offline connections
-
restricted
-
-
11 Sep 11
nique004How Facebook is changing the way college students communicate with each other. Explains why Facebook is one of the top choices.
-
10 Sep 11
-
07 Sep 11
-
11 Aug 11
-
10 Jun 11
-
08 Jun 11
-
temporal patterns of use (
-
Gross, R., & Acquisti, A. (2005, November). Information revelation and privacy in online social networks. Paper presented at the WPES'05, Alexandria, Virginia.
-
-
30 May 11
-
Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others. These sites can be oriented towards work-related contexts (e.g., LinkedIn.com), romantic relationship initiation (the original goal of Friendster.com), connecting those with shared interests such as music or politics (e.g., MySpace.com), or the college student population (the original incarnation of Facebook.com). Participants may use the sites to interact with people they already know offline or to meet new people.
-
Created in 2004, by 2007 Facebook was reported to have more than 21 million registered members generating 1.6 billion page views each day (Needham & Company, 2007). The site is tightly integrated into the daily media practices of its users: The typical user spends about 20 minutes a day on the site, and two-thirds of users log in at least once a day (Cassidy, 2006; Needham & Company, 2007). Capitalizing on its success among college students, Facebook launched a high school version in early September 2005. In 2006, the company introduced communities for commercial organizations; as of November 2006, almost 22,000 organizations had Facebook directories (Smith, 2006). In 2006, Facebook was used at over 2,000 United States colleges and was the seventh most popular site on the World Wide Web with respect to total page views (Cassidy, 2006).
-
Much of the existing academic research on Facebook has focused on identity presentation and privacy concerns (e.g., Gross & Acquisti, 2005; Stutzman, 2006). Looking at the amount of information Facebook participants provide about themselves, the relatively open nature of the information, and the lack of privacy controls enacted by the users, Gross and Acquisti (2005) argue that users may be putting themselves at risk both offline (e.g., stalking) and online (e.g., identify theft). Other recent Facebook research examines student perceptions of instructor presence and self-disclosure (Hewitt & Forte, 2006; Mazer, Murphy, & Simonds, 2007), temporal patterns of use (Golder, Wilkinson, & Huberman, 2007), and the relationship between profile structure and friendship articulation (Lampe, Ellison, & Steinfield, 2007).
-
contrast to popular press coverage which has primarily focused on negative outcomes of Facebook use stemming from users’ misconceptions about the nature of their online audience
-
Social capital broadly refers to the resources accumulated through the relationships among people (Coleman, 1988). Social capital is an elastic term with a variety of definitions in multiple fields (Adler & Kwon, 2002), conceived of as both a cause and an effect (Resnick, 2001; Williams, 2006). Bourdieu and Wacquant (1992) define social capital as "the sum of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition" (p. 14). The resources from these relationships can differ in form and function based on the relationships themselves.
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). According to several measures of social capital, this important resource has been declining in the U.S. for the past several years (Putnam, 2000). When social capital declines, a community experiences increased social disorder, reduced participation in civic activities, and potentially more distrust among community members. Greater social capital increases commitment to a community and the ability to mobilize collective actions, among other benefits. Social capital may also be used for negative purposes, but in general social capital is seen as a positive effect of interaction among participants in a social network (Helliwell & Putnam, 2004).
-
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. However, this perspective has received strong criticism (Bargh & McKenna, 2004). Moreover, some researchers have claimed that online interactions may supplement or replace in-person interactions, mitigating any loss from time spent online
-
Indeed, studies of physical (e.g., geographical) communities supported by online networks, such as the Netville community in Toronto or the Blacksburg Electronic Village, have concluded that computer-mediated interactions have had positive effects on community interaction, involvement, and social capital (Hampton & Wellman, 2003; Kavanaugh, Carroll, Rosson, Zin, & Reese, 2005).
-
It is clear that the Internet facilitates new connections, in that it provides people with an alternative way to connect with others who share their interests or relational goals (Ellison, Heino, & Gibbs, 2006; Horrigan, 2002; Parks & Floyd, 1996). These new connections may result in an increase in social capital; for instance, a 2006 Pew Internet survey reports that online users are more likely to have a larger network of close ties than non-Internet users, and that Internet users are more likely than non-users to receive help from core network members
-
Some forms of computer-mediated communication can lower barriers to interaction and encourage more self-disclosure (Bargh, McKenna, & Fitzsimons, 2002; Tidwell & Walther, 2002); hence, these tools may enable connections and interactions that would not otherwise occur. For this reason, we explore whether the relationship between Facebook use and social capital is different for individuals with varying degrees of self-esteem (Rosenberg, 1989) and satisfaction with life (Diener, Suh, & Oishi, 1997; Pavot & Diener, 1993), two well-known and validated measures of subjective well-being. This leads to the two following pairs of hypotheses:
-
Social networks change over time as relationships are formed or abandoned. Particularly significant changes in social networks may affect one's social capital, as when a person moves from the geographic location in which their network was formed and thus loses access to those social resources. Putnam (2000) argues that one of the possible causes of decreased social capital in the U.S. is the increase in families moving for job reasons; other research has explored the role of the Internet in these transitions (Cummings, Lee, & Kraut, 2006; Wellman et al., 2001). Wellman et al. (2001), for example, find that heavy Internet users rely on email to maintain long distance relationships, rather than using it as a substitute for offline interactions with those living nearby.
-
Some researchers have coined the term "friendsickness" to refer to the distress caused by the loss of connection to old friends when a young person moves away to college (Paul & Brier, 2001). Internet technologies feature prominently in a study of communication technology use by this population by Cummings, Lee, and Kraut (2006), who found that services like email and instant messaging help college students remain close to their high school friends after they leave home for college
-
-
14 May 11
-
21 Apr 11
-
12 Apr 11
-
19 Mar 11
-
08 Mar 11
-
enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate "friends" who can post comments on each other's pages, and view each other's profiles. Facebook members can also join virtual groups based on common interests,
-
represents an understudied offline to online trend in that it originally primarily served a geographically-bound community (the campus).
-
For individuals, social capital allows a person to draw on resources from other members of the networks to which he or she belongs. These resources can take the form of useful information, personal relationships, or the capacity to organize groups (Paxton, 1999
-
atent ties
-
Latent ti
-
Facebook
-
might make it easier to convert latent ties into weak ties, in that the site provides personal information about others, makes visible one's connections to a wide range of individuals, and enables students to identify those who might be useful in some capacity (such as the math major in a required calculus class), thus providing the motivation to activate a latent tie.
-
-
01 Mar 11
-
Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others
-
-
27 Feb 11
Ahmad Muhyiddinhealth
-
09 Feb 11
Roxanne PersaudBenefits of Facebook "Friends:" #SocialCapital & College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites http://ow.ly/3T2DC #research
-
08 Feb 11
-
06 Feb 11
-
30 Jan 11
-
27 Jan 11
-
19 Jan 11
-
Moreover, some researchers have claimed that online interactions may supplement or replace in-person interactions, mitigating any loss from time spent online
-
computer-mediated interactions have had positive effects on community interaction, involvement, and social capital
-
importance of Internet-based linkages for the formation of weak ties,
-
onding social capital reflects strong ties with family and close friends, who might be in a position to provide emotional support or access to scarce resources.
-
online users are more likely to have a larger network of close ties
-
Internet users are more likely than non-users to receive help from core network members
-
Internet might help individuals with low psychological well-being due to few ties to friends and neighbors
-
heavy Internet users rely on email to maintain long distance relationships, rather than using it as a substitute for offline interactions with those living nearby.
-
Granovetter (1973, 1982) has suggested that weak ties provide more benefit when the weak tie is not associated with stronger ties, as may be the case for maintained high school relationships.
-
students view the primary audience for their profile to be people with whom they share an offline connection
-
students use Facebook primarily to maintain existing offline relationships or to solidify what would otherwise be ephemeral, temporary acquaintanceships.
-
"create latent tie connectivity among group members that provides the technical means for activating weak ties" (p. 125). Latent ties are those social network ties that are "technically possible but not activated socially" (p. 137).
-
Facebook might make it easier to convert latent ties into weak ties,
-
ho might be useful in some capacity
-
college students, many of whom have moved away
-
"strength of weak ties"
-
nternet use alone did not predict social capital accumulation, but intensive use of Facebook did.
-
The strong linkage between Facebook use and high school connections suggests how SNSs help maintain relations as people move from one offline community to another. It may facilitate the same when students graduate from college, with alumni keeping their school email address and using Facebook to stay in touch with the college community. Such connections could have strong payoffs in terms of jobs, internships, and other opportunities.
-
Online interactions do not necessarily remove people from their offline world but may indeed be used to support relationships and keep people in contact, even when life changes move them away from each other. In addition to helping student populations, this use of technology could support a variety of populations, including professional researchers, neighborhood and community members, employees of companies, or others who benefit from maintained ties.
-
-
11 Jan 11
-
05 Jan 11
-
04 Jan 11
-
12 Dec 10
-
08 Dec 10
-
06 Dec 10
-
19 Nov 10
-
16 Nov 10
-
05 Nov 10
-
04 Nov 10
-
Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others.
-
Participants may use the sites to interact with people they already know offline or to meet new people.
-
Facebook, enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate "friends" who can post comments on each other's pages, and view each other's profiles. Facebook members can also join virtual groups based on common interests, see what classes they have in common, and learn each others' hobbies, interests, musical tastes, and romantic relationship status through the profiles.
-
Created in 2004, by 2007 Facebook was reported to have more than 21 million registered members generating 1.6 billion page views each day (Needham & Company, 2007).
-
The typical user spends about 20 minutes a day on the site, and two-thirds of users log in at least once a day (Cassidy, 2006; Needham & Company, 2007).
-
In 2006, Facebook was used at over 2,000 United States colleges and was the seventh most popular site on the World Wide Web with respect to total page views (Cassidy, 2006).
-
Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived bridging social capital.
-
Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived bonding social capital.
-
The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bridging
-
social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's self esteem.
-
The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bridging social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's satisfaction with life.
-
The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bonding social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's self esteem. -
The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bonding social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's satisfaction with life.
-
Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived maintained social capital.
-
In our sample, 94% of the undergraduate students we surveyed were Facebook members
-
Facebook members report spending between 10 and 30 minutes on average using Facebook each day and report having between 150 and 200 friends listed on their profile
-
The fact that nearly all Facebook users include their high school name in their profile (96%) suggests that maintaining connections to former high school classmates is a strong motivation for using Facebook. Not surprisingly, 97% report that high school friends had seen their profile.
-
-
10 Oct 10
-
04 Oct 10
-
03 Oct 10
-
students view the primary audience for their profile to be people with whom they share an offline connection
-
-
01 Oct 10
-
26 Sep 10
-
Our empirical results contrast with the anecdotal evidence dominating the popular press. Although there are clearly some image management problems experienced by students as reported in the press, and the potential does exist for privacy abuses, our findings demonstrate a robust connection between Facebook usage and indicators of social capital, especially of the bridging type. Internet use alone did not predict social capital accumulation, but intensive use of Facebook did.
The strong linkage between Facebook use and high school connections suggests how SNSs help maintain relations as people move from one offline community to another. It may facilitate the same when students graduate from college, with alumni keeping their school email address and using Facebook to stay in touch with the college community. Such connections could have strong payoffs in terms of jobs, internships, and other opportunities. Colleges may want to explore ways to encourage this sort of usage.
Online social network sites may play a role different from that described in early literature on virtual communities. Online interactions do not necessarily remove people from their offline world but may indeed be used to support relationships and keep people in contact, even when life changes move them away from each other. In addition to helping student populations, this use of technology could support a variety of populations, including professional researchers, neighborhood and community members, employees of companies, or others who benefit from maintained ties.
-
-
02 Sep 10
Scarlet BoggsEllison, 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. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html
-
09 Aug 10
-
30 May 10
-
28 May 10
-
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. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html
-
-
17 May 10
-
02 May 10
-
30 Apr 10
Melanie VanDerPloeg"The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and
College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
Nicole B.
Ellison
Charles
Steinfield
Cliff
Lampe
Department of Telecommunication,
Information Studies, and Media
Michigan State University
Go to a section in the
article: Abstract Introduction Literature
Review Methods Measures Findings
Discussion Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes References
About the Authors
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook,
a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of
social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we
explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay
connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call
maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a
survey of undergraduate students (N=286) suggest a strong association between
use of Facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest
relationship being to bridging social capital. In addition, Facebook usage was
found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it
might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low
life satisfaction.
Introduction
Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster,
CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their
social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others. These sites
can be oriented towards work-related contexts (e.g., LinkedIn.com), romantic
relationship initiation (the original goal of Friendster.com), connecting those
with shared interests such as music or politics (e.g., MySpace.com), or the
college student population (the original incarnation of Facebook.com).
Participants may use the sites to interact with people they already know offline
or to meet new people. The online social network -
21 Apr 10
-
18 Apr 10
Clive ThompsonStudy shows that students use Facebook largely to connect with people they already know.
Also, students with low self-esteem appear gain in "bridging" social capital if they use Facebook "more intensely":
"Students reporting low satisfaction and low sel -
01 Apr 10
pomo psycheComputer Mediated Communication: The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
-
24 Mar 10
-
22 Mar 10
-
Natalie SpenceNB Ellison, C Steinfield, C Lampe - JOURNAL OF COMPUTER …, 2007 - jcmc.indiana.edu
... The online social network application analyzed in this article, Facebook, enables its users to
present themselves in an online profile, accumulate "friends" who ... can -
21 Mar 10
David BoyerStatistic of facebook users in college
-
n a short period of time, Facebook has garnered a very strong percentage of users on college campuses. In our sample, 94% of the undergraduate students we surveyed were Facebook members.
-
-
20 Mar 10
-
17 Mar 10
-
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital.
-
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital
-
Previous research suggests that Facebook users engage in "searching" for people with whom they have an offline connection more than they "browse" for complete strangers to meet
-
Social capital broadly refers to the resources accumulated through the relationships among people
-
For individuals, social capital allows a person to draw on resources from other members of the networks to which he or she belongs. These resources can take the form of useful information, personal relationships, or the capacity to organize group
-
Putnam (2000) distinguishes between bridging and bonding social capital. The former is linked to what network researchers refer to as "weak ties," which are loose connections between individuals who may provide useful information or new perspectives for one another but typically not emotional support (Granovetter, 1982). Alternatively, bonding social capital is found between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationships, such as family and close friends.
-
we introduce an additional dimension of social capital that speaks to the ability to maintain valuable connections as one progresses through life change
-
H1: Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived bridging social capital. -
a 2006 Pew Internet survey reports that online users are more likely to have a larger network of close ties than non-Internet users, and that Internet users are more likely than non-users to receive help from core network members
-
H2: Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived bonding social capital. -
H3a: The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bridging social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's self esteem. H3b: The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bridging social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's satisfaction with life. H4a: The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bonding social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's self esteem. H4b: The relationship between intensity of Facebook use and bonding social capital will vary depending on the degree of a person's satisfaction with life. -
Wellman et al. (2001), for example, find that heavy Internet users rely on email to maintain long distance relationships, rather than using it as a substitute for offline interactions with those living nearby
-
To test the role of maintained high school relationships as weak, bridging ties, we adapted questions about general bridging relationships, such as those in Williams (2006), to be specific to maintained relationships with high school acquaintances as opposed to close frien
-
H5: Intensity of Facebook use will be positively associated with individuals' perceived maintained social capital. -
We collected information about demographic and other descriptive variables, including gender, age, year in school, local vs. home residence, ethnicity
-
Facebook Intensity
-
This measure includes two self-reported assessments of Facebook behavior, designed to measure the extent to which the participant was actively engaged in Facebook activities: the number of Facebook "friends" and the amount of time spent on Facebook on a typical day.
-
In our sample, 94% of the undergraduate students we surveyed were Facebook members
-
gnificantly more Facebook use involving people with whom they share an offline connection
-
students view the primary audience for their profile to be people with whom they share an offline connection.
-
This suggests that students use Facebook primarily to maintain existing offline relationships or to solidify what would otherwise be ephemeral, temporary acquaintanceships.
-
key finding is that, after first controlling for demographic factors, psychological well-being measures, and general Internet use, the extent to which students used Facebook intensively still contributed significantly (scaled beta5=.34, p<.0001), supporting Hypothesis 1
-
he results suggest that Facebook is indeed implicated in students' efforts to develop and maintain bridging social capital at college, although we cannot assess causal direction.
-
extent of students' satisfaction with life at MSU was strongly correlated with bridging social capital
-
-
12 Mar 10
Florence DujardinThis study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results from a survey of undergraduate students (N=286) suggest a strong association between use of Facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest relationship being to bridging social capital. In addition, Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
Facebook social capital identity measurement social networking survey undergraduate
-
11 Mar 10
-
25 Feb 10
-
we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital.
-
Facebook constitutes a rich site for researchers interested in the affordances of social networks due to its heavy usage patterns and technological capacities that bridge online and offline connections. We believe that Facebook represents an understudied offline to online trend in that it originally primarily served a geographically-bound community (the campus).
-
Previous research suggests that Facebook users engage in "searching" for people with whom they have an offline connection more than they "browse" for complete strangers to meet (Lampe, Ellison, & Steinfield, 2006).
-
A hallmark of this early research is the presumption that when online and offline social networks overlapped, the directionality was online to offline—online connections resulted in face-to-face meetings.
-
Although this early work acknowledged the ways in which offline and online networks bled into one another, the assumed online to offline directionality may not apply to today's SNSs that are structured both to articulate existing connections and enable the creation of new ones.
-
Social capital broadly refers to the resources accumulated through the relationships among people (Coleman, 1988). Social capital is an elastic term with a variety of definitions in multiple fields (Adler & Kwon, 2002), conceived of as both a cause and an effect (Resnick, 2001; Williams, 2006). Bourdieu and Wacquant (1992) define social capital as "the sum of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition" (p. 14). The resources from these relationships can differ in form and function based on the relationships themselves.
-
For individuals, social capital allows a person to draw on resources from other members of the networks to which he or she belongs. These resources can take the form of useful information, personal relationships, or the capacity to organize groups (Paxton, 1999). Access to individuals outside one's close circle provides access to non-redundant information, resulting in benefits such as employment connections (Granovetter, 1973).
-
Putnam (2000) distinguishes between bridging and bonding social capital. The former is linked to what network researchers refer to as "weak ties," which are loose connections between individuals who may provide useful information or new perspectives for one another but typically not emotional support (Granovetter, 1982). Alternatively, bonding social capital is found between individuals in tightly-knit, emotionally close relationships, such as family and close friends.
-
This concept, "maintained social capital," permits us to explore whether online network tools enable individuals to keep in touch with a social network after physically disconnecting from it.
-
-
16 Feb 10
-
09 Feb 10
-
05 Feb 10
-
-
31 Jan 10
-
25 Jan 10
Kholod Matook"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. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html "
-
24 Jan 10
INF6400A34 aEllison, N.B., Steinfield, C. & Lampe, C. (2007). The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites [Online]. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html [Accessed 09 Jan 2010]
-
14 Jan 10
INF6400A35 aEllison, N. B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007). The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
[Online]. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. http://socialimpact.wikispaces.com/The+Social+Impact+of+Facebook
[Accessed 5 December 2009]. -
01 Jan 10
-
04 Dec 09
-
03 Dec 09
Jim ParkerThis study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenance of social capital. In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital
vuvc socialcapital article socialmedia research socialnetworking facebook
-
03 Nov 09
-
27 Oct 09
-
22 Oct 09
-
04 Oct 09
-
14 Sep 09
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.