Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices

By Nicole B. Ellison, Charles W. Steinfield, Cliff Lampe. New Media & Society, 2011

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures (2012, background): “Ellison et al. (2011c) found that Facebook users who employed advanced privacy features reported more Friends on the site, which they suggested could be because users with larger networks feel compelled to organize Friends in some way.”
Toward an Integrated and Differential Approach to the Relationships Between Loneliness, Different Types of Facebook Use, and Adolescents’ Depressed Mood (2020, background): “Facebook communication practices on users’ level of social capital (Burke, Kraut, & Marlow, 2011; Ellison, Gray, Lampe, & Fiori, 2014; Ellison et al., 2011) has received much more research attention.”
Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence (2019, background): “As outlined earlier, social media could further help at developing social capital (Ellison et al., 2007, 2011; Wang et al., 2015).”
Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to “lol” about (2014, background): “…for what is termed “healthy” socialization and does not address underlying feelings of social disconnection (e.g., Anderson, Fagan, Woodnutt, & Chamorro-Premuzic, 2012; Kujath, 2011; Ellison et al., 2007), even if it may offer a tempting coping device for the lonely (Sheldon, Abad, & Hinsch, 2011).”
Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes (2014, methodology): “In addition to gender (dichotomous), age (continuous), and education (ordinal), we included self-esteem as a control variable in our regressions because it has been a significant predictor of social capital (Ellison et al., 2007, 2011; Steinfield et al., 2008).”
Too much face and not enough books: The relationship between multiple indices of Facebook use and academic performance (2012, background): “In newer research, Ellison, Steinfield, and Lampe (2011) extended their previous study and found that engaging in social information-seeking behaviors on Facebook (to learn more about a person with whom the user already has a connection) was related to increased social capital, while using Facebook…”