Sciweavers

514 search results - page 2 / 103
» Social Capital in Online Social Networks
Sort
View
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Bonding vs. Bridging Social Capital: A Case Study in Twitter
Online communities are connecting large numbers of individuals and generating rich social network data, opening the way for empirical studies of social behavior. In this paper, we ...
Matthew S. Smith, Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier
ICWL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Enhancing the Social Capital of Learning Communities by Using an Ad Hoc Transient Communities Service
In online learning, communities can help to enhance learning. However, because of the dynamic nature of communities, attaining and sustaining these communities can be difficult. On...
Sibren Fetter, Adriana J. Berlanga, Peter B. Sloep
HICSS
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Social network activity and social well-being
Previous research has shown a relationship between use of social networking sites and feelings of social capital. However, most studies have relied on self-reports by college stud...
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas M. Lento
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Identifying social capital in the facebook interface
A number of studies have identified a robust relationship between the use of social network sites, particularly Facebook, and positive outcomes such as social capital. Social netw...
Christian Yoder, Fred Stutzman