How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital

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Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook (2006, background): “An alternative definition is provided by Huysman and Wulf (2004), who write, “Social capital refers to network ties of goodwill, mutual support, shared language, shared norms, social trust, and a sense of mutual obligation that people can derive value from.”
E-Mail as Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery of Community Structure within Organizations (2003, background): “Not surprisingly, e-mail has been established as an indicator of collaboration and knowledge exchange ( Whittaker & Sidner, 1996 ; Quan-Haase & Wellman, 2004 ).”
The Benefits of Facebook "Friends: " Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites (2007, methodology): “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 ”
Collaboration Paradox (2005, background): “However, of the few studies that have investigated the relationship between ICTs and scientific collaboration, none have been conducted in the developing world (Abels et al., 1996; Finholt & Olson, 1997; Galimberti et al., 2001; Koku & Wellman, 2002; Quan-Haase & Wellman, 2004; Ehikhamenor, 2003).”