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Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation1
Sebastián Valenzuela 1 Namsu Park 1 Kerk F. Kee 1
1 University of Texas at Austin
1 Earlier versions of this study were presented at the 2008 International Symposium on Online Journalism and the 2008 APSA Preconference on Political Communication. For intellectual and financial support on this research, we thank Sharon Strover. Helpful comments at various stages were provided by Jeff Gulati and Talia Stroud. Corresponding author: Sebastián Valenzuela [sebastianvalenzuela@mail.utexas.edu]
ABSTRACT
This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals' social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students' life satisfaction, social trust, civic engagement, and political participation. While these findings should ease the concerns of those who fear that Facebook has mostly negative effects on young adults, the positive and significant associations between Facebook variables and social capital were small, suggesting that online social networks are not the most effective solution for youth disengagement from civic duty and democracy.
Our networks are important for more than simply the number of people that we know, but for the kinds of people that we know. Sociologists label those in our inner circle -- family, best friends from high school or college, longtime co-workers and perhaps a handful of others -- as "strong ties."
Then there is the larger circle, those with whom we are acquainted but are not nearly as close to. We know who they are and we know how they relate to us, and would likely join them for a cup of coffee if we ran into them unexpectedly. These are our "weak ties."
Each of our personal networks is made up of a similar combination of strong and weak ties. This much is not surprising, given the uniformity of how we organize and grow and live in the western world. But what may surprise you is the difference in relative importance of these two groups in our life's journey.
reface your facebook
Facebook is under pressure to take a stand on groups that want to use its pages to air views that are at best controversial and at worst hateful.
New England Journal of Medicine's Facebook page.
A response to a linked study at Ohio State.
New Lempert marketing study says that "Internet users worldwide spend one out of every 11 minutes" at "member communites" sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.
No visuals, but great; narrative re-write of Hamlet as though it happened on Facebook.
Facebook story. LOL funny. Dance around the room funny.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Volume 14, Issue 2, 2009.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295220/issue
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Pages: 221-243
The (Potential) Benefits of Campaigning via Social Network Sites
Sonja Utz
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295230/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 244-264
U.S. College Students' Internet Use: Race, Gender and Digital Divides
Steve Jones, Camille Johnson-Yale, Sarah Millermaier, Francisco Seoane Pérez
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295227/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 265-285
Echo chambers online?: Politically motivated selective exposure among Internet news users1
R. Kelly Garrett
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295221/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 286-306
Third-Person Perceptions and Online Games: A Comparison of Perceived Antisocial and Prosocial Game Effects
Zhi-Jin Zhong
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295228/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 307-327
Deterrence Effect of Four Legal and Extralegal Factors on Online Copyright Infringement
Xigen Li, Nico Nergadze
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295225/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 328-351
Understanding User Resistance to Participation in Multihop Communications
Yoolee Kang, Seongcheol Kim
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295223/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 352-367
Disentangling the Effects of Social Network Density on Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) Intention
Dongyoung Sohn
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122295222/abstract
Published Online: 30 Mar 2009
Pages: 368-392
Computer-Mediated Word-of-Mouth Communication on RateMyProfessors.com: Expectancy Effects on Student Cognitive and Behavioral Learning
Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, Carrie Shaver, Mark Oaks
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1222
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Links to articles etc. having to do with the study of Facebook.
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Category: Computers & Internet
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