"Connecting" and "Disconnecting" With Civic Life: Patterns of Internet Use and the Production of Social Capital

By Dhavan V. Shah, Nojin Kwak, R. Lance Holbert. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Communication, Context, and Community (2001, background): “Research on media reliance has found that effects of media consumption tend to be concentrated among individuals who depend on a given medium, whether that be newspapers, television, or the Internet (McLeod & Becker, 1974; McLeod, Becker, & Byrnes, 1974; Shah et al., 2001).”
Does Internet Use Affect Engagement? A Meta-Analysis of Research (2009, background): “Some studies estimate the explained variance at less than one percent (Bimber, 2003; Hardy & Scheufele, 2005; Kenski & Stroud, 2006; Nisbet & Scheufele, 2004; Scheufele & Nisbet, 2002) or less than two percent (Shah et al., 2001b) or about three percent (Kwak et al., 2006; Moy et al., 2005).”
The Internet and Knowledge Gaps (2002, background): “The higher the educational background, the more people use the Internet in an instrumental way, and the lower the educational background, the more people seem to use the Internet only for entertainment purposes (Shah et al., 2001).”
Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review (2016, background): “…take place on egocentric networks in a non-anonymous or pseudonymous setting, their nature is quite different from social and recreational uses that characterized the early Internet and which were found to have a negative implications for social capital and participation (Shah et al., 2001).”
Social networks (2009, neutral): “As Stolberg (2010) noted, HIV/AIDS activism on university campuses is nothing new.”
A correlation of servant leadership, leader trust, and organizational trust (2005, background): “, 1999; Huff and Kelley, forthcoming), political trust (Hetherington, 1998; Parker, 1989; Parker and Parker, 1993), societal trust (Muller and Mitchell, 1994; Oxendinea et al., 2003; Shah et al., 2001), peer trust in the workplace (Ammeter, 2000; Holton, 2001; McAllister, 1995), trust between superi”
Understanding digital inequality: comparing continued use behavioral models of the socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged (2008, background): “Research Model those with lower education attainment, tend to use ICT more for entertainment purposes, while the advantaged tend to use ICT in an instrumental way (Bonfadelli 2002; Shah et al. 2001).”
On and Off the 'Net: Scales for Social Capital in an Online Era (2006, background): “Because of this, patterns of use may be a more proﬁtable route to explore than gross hours of use (Shah, Kwak, & Holbert, 2001).”
College Students' Motivations for Facebook Use and Psychological Outcomes (2014, background): “For instance, Shah, Kwak, and Holbert (2001) examined the relationship between patterns of Internet use and the production of social capital.”
Weblogs, traditional sources online and political participation: an assessment of how the internet is changing the political environment (2009, background): “Refuting dystopian views of newer technologies, many studies have found a relationship between informational uses of the internet and social capital (Shah et al., 2001a), political participation (Shah et al., 2002), and civic engagement (Jennings and Zeitner, 2003).”