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Uses and gratifications of social networking sites for bridging and bonding social capital
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Examination of users of four social networking sites and their influence on online bridging and bonding social capital found that Twitter users had the highest bridging social capital, followed by Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, while Snapchat usersHad the highest bonding socialcapital, following by Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.About:
This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 374 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & Uses and gratifications theory.read more
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Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community
TL;DR: As an example of how the current "war on terrorism" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says "permanently marked" the generation that lived through it and had a "terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century."
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The Impact of Social Media on Learning Behavior for Sustainable Education: Evidence of Students from Selected Universities in Pakistan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed a focalized investigation on revealing the relationship between positive and negative characteristics of social media and the learning attitude of university students for sustainable education, and they applied the social gratification theory to examine students' behavior practicing social media usage.
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Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-GroupPerspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of opinion leaders' characteristics (interactivity, authority, and activity) on online groups' knowledge sharing engagement and found that in-group knowledge-sharing engagement was driven by an opinion leader's interactivity and authority, whereas outgroup knowledgesharing engagement could not be facilitated by these types of characteristics.
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Why do college students prefer Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram? Site affordances, tensions between privacy and self-expression, and implications for social capital
TL;DR: It is suggested that associations between privacy settings, disclosure, and social capital vary as a function of both user motivations and the affordances of specific social media sites.
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The Impact of Perceived Usefulness of Online Reviews, Trust and Perceived Risk on Online Purchase Intention in Emerging Markets: A Mexican Perspective
Ivan Ventre,Diana Kolbe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate online purchase intention in emerging markets focusing on the impact of perceived usefulness of online reviews, trust and perceived risk on the perceived risk of online review.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
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Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
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