Help from My “Friends”: Social Capital in the Social Network Sites of Low-Income Students

By Christine Greenhow, Lisa Burton. 2011

91 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. Linda Tuncay Zayer
2. Stacy Neier
3. Marko M. Skoric
4. Qinfeng Zhu
5. Natalie Lee-San Pang
6. Debbie Goh

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1. Linda Tuncay Zayer
2. Stacy Neier
3. Marko M. Skoric

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1. Marko M. Skoric
2. Qinfeng Zhu
3. Natalie Lee-San Pang
4. Debbie Goh

Citations in the corpus

• Students’ Perceptions and Experiences of Social Media in Higher Education (2015, background): “Furthermore, Greenhow and Burton (2011) document how low-income students’ use of social networks is positively associated with some forms of social capital—a factor that has been linked to educational attainment and achievement in past literature. Hung and Yuen (2010) examined Taiwanese students in ”
• Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “Greenhow (2011) found that lower-income students used MySpace more intensively than Facebook, and that MySpace use promoted more bonding social capital than bridging social capital.”