On and Off the 'Net: Scales for Social Capital in an Online Era

By Dmitri Williams. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The Benefits of Facebook "Friends: " Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites (2007, methodology): “Williams (2006) points out that little empirical work has explicitly examined the effects of the Internet on bonding social capital, although some studies have questioned whether the Internet supplements or supplants strong ties (see Bargh & McKenna, 2004, for a review).”
Social network activity and social well-being (2010, background): “The survey included five items each from the bonding and bridging scales in [4,17].”
Facebook Psychology: Popular Questions Answered by Research (2012, background): “Both weak and strong ties provide benefits in terms of increasing social capital (Williams, 2006; Ellison et al., 2007), that is, increasing the individ- ual and group utility resulting from use of personal networks or relationships.”
The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures (2012, methodology): “The instrument included a modified version of Williams’ (2006) 10-item bridging social capital scale, which was developed to capture four criteria outlined by Putnam (2000): outward looking, contact with a broad range of people, viewing oneself as part of a broader group, and generalized…”
A Meta-Analysis of Social Networking Online and Social Capital (2016, methodology): “Although several self-developed scales were used, the two most widely used measures of bonding social capital were Williams’ (2006) version of the 5-item bonding Social Capital Scale and Ellison and colleagues (2007) adapted 5-item version.”
Bowling online: social networking and social capital within the organization (2009, methodology): “We further added several items regarding employees’ abilities to find needed information or expertise in the company, given the organizational locus of this study as compared to Williams [35] and Ellison et al. [17].”
Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook (2006, methodology): “" We therefore adapted five of Williams (2006) Bridging Social Capital subscale and created three additional items intended to prove these dimensions of bridging social capital in the MSU context.”
Uses and gratifications of social networking sites for bridging and bonding social capital: A comparison of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat (2017, background): “First, this study makes theoretical contributions to extant literature on UGT and social capital formation and maintenance among SNS users (e.g. Chu and Kim, 2011; Ellison et al., 2014; Gil de Zuniga et al., 2012; Phua and Jin, 2011; Valenzuela et al., 2009; Williams, 2006) by examining how bridging”
Interactive Digital Advertising vs. Virtual Brand Community (2011, background): “The term "online" was added, because the focus of the study was on online social networking (Williams 2006).”
Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes (2014, neutral): “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”
Influence of Social Support Received in Online and Offline Contexts on Satisfaction With Social Support and Satisfaction With Life: A Longitudinal Study (2015, methodology): “The response options we applied for the items developed by Williams (2006) do not represent the scaling applied to the original scale, a difference that may reduce the validity of the measure.”
How Doctors Gain Social and Economic Returns in Online Health-Care Communities: A Professional Capital Perspective (2017, background): “) in a hierarchical structure are a form of status, and may be used to characterize and measure one’s individual advantages in a structural position [25, 42, 73].”
The role of perceived social capital and flow experience in building users' continuance intention to social networking sites in China (2012, methodology): “Measurements of the constructs were developed from the studies of Ellison et al. (2007), Williams (2006), Lee and Tsai (2010) and Bhattacherjee (2001), with some of the scale items slightly reworded to reflect the current research context.”
The Role of Social Networking Sites in Early Adolescents’ Social Lives (2016, methodology): “To measure bridging social capital, we used four items based on the Internet Social Capital Scales from Williams (2006).”
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users (2011, background): “social capital [39], social communication skill (a subscale of”
The social side of gaming: How playing online computer games creates online and offline social support (2012, background): “In the context of online gaming, Williams et al. (2006) have demonstrated that approximately 50% of World of Warcraft users seem to be able to extend their offline friendships to the online game, and that bonding social capital (extending online friendships to offline realms) was established by…”