The Internet and social capital
Essential readings
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Hypertechnological Growing Economy. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. In press.
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and...
Antoci, F., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2012). See You on Facebook! A framework for analyzing the role of computer-mediated interaction in the evolution of social capital. Journal of Socio-Economics, DOI:j.socec.2012.04.024
Empirical studies have documented a decline in indicators of social participation in the last...
Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (4), article 1
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site...
Important readings
Gentzkow, M., Shapiro, J. M. (2010). Ideological Segregation Online and Offline. Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming
We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological...
Park, N., Kee, K. F., Valenzuela, S. (2009). Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14 (4), 875-901
This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college...
Gil de Zúñiga, H., Jung, N., Valenzuela, S. (2011). Social media use for news and individuals’ social capital, civic engagement and political participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, forthcoming
Traditional news use activates people’s civic and political involvement and is also related...
Matzat, U. (2010). Reducing problems of sociability in online communities: Integrating online communication with offline interaction. American Behavioral Scientist 53 (8), 1170-1193
Social network researchers claim that relations offline affect relations online. However, it is...
Bauernschuster, S., Falck, O., Woessmann, L. (2011). Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake. SOEP WP 392
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the...
Steinfield, C., Ellison, N., Lampe, C. (2008). Social capital, self-esteem, and use of online social network sites: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 29 (6), 434-445
A longitudinal analysis of panel data from users of a popular online social network site, Facebook...
Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2014). Online networks and subjective well-being. MPRA Paper 56436.
Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results...
Sabatini, F., Sarracino, F. (2014). E-participation: social capital and the Internet. MPRA Paper 55722.
We add to the literature by conducting the first empirical assessment of how online networking...
Geraci, A., Nardotto, M., Reggiani, T., Sabatini, F. (2018). Broadband Internet and social capital. IZA Discussion Paper No. 11855
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from...
Reading list archive
Anderson, J., Rainie, L. (2010). The future of social relations. Pew Internet & American Life Research Center
The social benefits of internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the next decade, according...
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F. (2018). Online networks, social interaction and segregation: an evolutionary approach. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-018-0556-6
There is growing evidence that face-to-face interaction is declining in many countries,...
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era. Sapienza University of Rome, mimeo
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world...
Antoci, A., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2013). Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era. Quality & Quantity, Doi:10.1007/s11135-013-9863-z
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world...
Antoci, F., Sabatini, F., Sodini, M. (2011). Economic growth, technological progress and social capital: the inverted U hypothesis. Metroeconomica
We set up a theoretical framework to analyze the possible role of economic growth and technological...
Beaudoin, C. (2008). Explaining the Relationship between Internet Use and Interpersonal Trust: Taking into Account Motivation and Information Overload. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13, 550–568
Although a growing body of empirical research has assessed the relationship between Internet use...
Boyd, D. M, Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.
Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry...
Burke, M., and Settles, B. (2011). Plugged in to the community: Social motivators in online goal-setting groups. C&T 2011: Fifth International Conference on Communities and Technologies
At personal goal-setting websites, people join others in committing to a challenging goal, such...
Burke, M., Kraut, R., Marlow, C. (2011). Social capital on Facebook: Differentiating uses and users. ACM CHI 2011: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Though social network site use is often treated as a monolithic activity, in which all time is...
Burke, M., Marlowe, C., Lento, T. (2010). Social Network Activity and Social Well-Being. Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Previous research has shown a relationship between use of social networking sites and feelings of...
Caplan, S. (2007). Relations among loneliness, social anxiety, and problematic Internet use. Cyberpsychology and Behavior 10 (2), 234-242
he model of problematic Internet use advanced and tested in the current study proposes that...
Cardon, D., Cardon, C. (2007). The Strength of Weak Cooperation:an Attempt to Understand the Meaning of Web 2.0. MPRA Paper 4581, University Library of Munich, Germany.
This paper examines some continuities and ruptures in the use of Web 2.0 such as blogs, social...
Castronova E., Wagner G. G. (2011). Virtual Life Satisfaction. Kyklos 64 (3), 313-328
We study life satisfaction data from the 2005 World Values Survey and a 2009 survey of users of the...
Chaim F., Gandal, N. (2008). Microstructure of Collaboration: The Network of Open Source Software. Working Papers 08-01, NET Institute
The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made...
Chaim F., Gandal, N. (2010). Direct and Indirect Knowledge Spillovers: The 'Social Network' of Open Source Projects. RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming
Knowledge spillovers are a central part of knowledge accumulation. The paper focuses on spillovers...