Nonrecursive Models of Internet Use and Community Engagement: Questioning Whether Time Spent Online Erodes Social Capital

By Dhavan V. Shah, Mike Schmierbach, Joshua Hawkins, R. Espino, J. Donavan. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Does Internet Use Affect Engagement? A Meta-Analysis of Research (2009, background): “The studies tend to find a positive effect of engagement on Internet use ( Krueger, 2006 ; Price et al, 2002 ; Norris & Jones, 1998 ; Katz & Rice, 2002 ; Jennings & Zeitner, 2003 ), with the exception of Shah, Schmierbach, Hawkins, Espino, and Donavan (2002) .”