The Implications of Networked Individualism for Social Participation How Mobile Phone, E-mail, and IM Networks Afford Social Participation for Rural Residents in Taiwan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggested the positive and capital-enhancing implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs), however, the mechanisms connecting ICT use to capital-enhan...
Abstract: An extensive research has suggested the positive and capital-enhancing implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, the mechanisms connecting ICT use to capital-enhan...
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TL;DR: Results show that tie strength appears to be a negative moderating force between satisfaction and continuance intention in SMIM services and arises from the confirmation of social value, which has the strongest association with tie strength enhancement.
Abstract: Second-generation mobile instant messaging (SMIM) is a new structure of social media facilitated by the widespread use of smartphones. It is embedded in social networks and support fundamental functions. However, tie strength, as a social network configuration, is ignored in existing SMIM studies. The present work incorporates the effect of tie strength into expectation-confirmation model, proposing the continuance intention model in the unique context of SMIM and investigating the potential driving forces (i.e., users’ satisfaction, tie strength, confirmation of values, and perceived critical mass). Results show that tie strength appears to be a negative moderating force between satisfaction and continuance intention in SMIM services and arises from the confirmation of social value. In particular, the confirmation of sense of belonging has the strongest association with tie strength enhancement, while the confirmation of self-expression is the most important driver of satisfaction. Both satisfaction and perceived critical mass directly contribute to continuance intention of SMIM users, and perceived critical mass has a stronger impact.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the personal networks of 379 college students in Singapore to explore the social affordances of traditional and new channels in communicating with different types of social relationships and their associations with personal well-being.
Abstract: In this study, we analyze the personal networks of 379 college students in Singapore to explore the social affordances of traditional and new channels in communicating with different types of social relationships and their associations with personal well-being. Results suggest communication channels play a complex role in how strong and weak ties are related to personal well-being. On one hand, face-to-face communication, landlines, mobile phones, text messaging, and social network sites are associated with the strong ties that boost personal well-being. On the other hand, mobile phones, text messaging, social network sites, and video chat (but not face-to-face or landline communication) are associated with weak ties and personal well-being. This study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, we show that strong and weak ties are both important to the personal well-being of college students in Singapore; second, we show how different communication channels are associated with different kinds of s...
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
Abstract: Analysis of social networks is suggested as a tool for linking micro and macro levels of sociological theory. The procedure is illustrated by elaboration of the macro implications of one aspect of small-scale interaction: the strength of dyadic ties. It is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another. The impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored. Stress is laid on the cohesive power of weak ties. Most network models deal, implicitly, with strong ties, thus confining their applicability to small, well-defined groups. Emphasis on weak ties lends itself to discussion of relations between groups and to analysis of segments of social structure not easily defined in terms of primary groups.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
Abstract: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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"The Implications of Networked Indiv..." refers background in this paper
...Social capital, broadly defined as the actually or potentially accessible social resources that reside in one’s personal networks and social groups (Coleman, 1988; Lin, 2001), is the type of capital that people seek to obtain from social relationships....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define political participation as "how much? about what?" and "who participates" and "race, ethnicity, and gender" in the context of political participation.
Abstract: * *1. Introduction * Part I: The World of Participation *2. Defining Political Participation *3. Political Participation: How Much? About What? *4. Interpreting Political Activity: A Report from Activists *5. Recruiting Political Activists * Part II: Participation and Representation *6. Thinking about Participatory Representation *7. Who Participates? Economic Circumstances and Needs *8. Who Participates? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender * Part III: The Civic Voluntarism Model *9. Explaining Participation: Introductory Considerations *10. Resources for Politics: Time and Money *11. Resources for Politics: Civic Skills *12. Resources, Engagement, and Political Activity *13. Institutions and Recruitment *14. Participation and the Politics of Issue Engagement *15. From Generation to Generation: The Roots of [incomplete]
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated six potential explanations of why different types of ties provide different kinds of supportive resources: tie strength, contact, group processes, kinship, network members' characteristics, and similarities and dissimilarities between network members in such characteristics.
Abstract: Community ties with friends and relatives are a principal means by which people and households get supportive resources. Quantitative and qualitative data from the second East York study are used to evaluate six potential explanations of why different types of ties provide different kinds of supportive resources: tie strength, contact, group processes, kinship,network members' characteristics, and similarities and dissimilarities between network members in such characteristics. Most relatioships provide specialized support. The kinds of support provided are related more to characteristics of the relationship than to characteristics of the network members themselves. Strong ties provide emotional aid, small services, and companionship. Parents and adult children exchange financial aid, emotional aid, large services, and small services. Physically accessible ties provide services. Women provide emotional aid. Friends, neighbors, and siblings make up about half of all supportive relationships. The ensemble o...
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...…can be tangible or normative in form (Glanville & Bienenstock, 2009), the accumulation and maintenance of social capital are highly dynamic practices, depending on the type of resources sought and the relationship contexts (Granovetter, 1973; Lin, 2001; Marin, 2012; Wellman & Wortley, 1990)....
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