Digital Social Networks From a Social Capital Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1106-1117
Author(s):  
Suparna Dhar ◽  
Indranil Bose ◽  
Mohammed Naved Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Gender Barriers ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Social Capital Perspective

Digital social networking (DSN) sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, have brought about changes in the way people communicate, interact, and affected human lifestyle across the world. The phenomenon has permeated geographical and cultural boundaries, disregarded age and gender barriers, diffused social and economic strata, and transgressed linguistic and ethnic boundaries. Such widespread and intense impact of technology on human life is unprecedented in human history triggers academic interest in the phenomenon. The unique opportunities offered by digitization of social networking, the novel capabilities of information dissemination and foraging on DSN sites, along with widespread adoption necessitates theoretical interpretation of antecedents and consequences of DSN adoption. In this chapter, the authors offer a social capital perspective of DSN adoption.

scholarly journals Analysis of Network Structure and Doctor Behaviors in E-Health Communities from a Social-Capital Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhigang Li ◽  
Xu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Professional Titles ◽  
Health Communities ◽  
Social Capital Perspective ◽  
Doctor Communication

In tandem with internet development and widespread social media use, e-health communities have begun to emerge in recent years. These communities allow doctors to access forums anywhere, anytime, seek or exchange medical information online, find literature, and so on. This is convenient and can solve some problems for doctors while also promoting doctor communication. This study collected and collated 102 doctors in the “Lilac Forum” and used social network tools to quantify the overall network density, centrality, core–periphery structure, and structural hole indicators of doctors’ information exchange from a social-capital perspective. The results showed that the frequency of interaction between doctors differed because of differences in the identities and participation of doctors in the e-health community. The density of the doctors’ information dissemination network (0.228) and network cohesion (0.610) were relatively high. Thus, the doctors were more closely connected, and information was easily spread. At the same time, doctors with higher professional titles had obvious location characteristics, familiarity and trust, and high levels of reciprocity. They could obtain redundant information in the network and were more likely to influence the behavior of other doctors. This study’s findings provide support for improving information exchange among doctors in e-health communities and improving the service levels of the platforms.

FROM BUSINESS STRATEGY AND SOCIAL CAPITAL PERSPECTIVE TO TRAVEL AGENCIES’ COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 310-310
Author(s):  
Chih-Hsing Liu ◽  
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Jeou-Shyan Horng ◽  
Sheng-Fang Chou ◽  
Yung-Chuan Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Social Capital Perspective

SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY: ACADEMIC SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1169-1180
Author(s):  
Jelena Filipovic ◽  
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Maja Arslanagic Kalajdzic
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Capital Theory

Fun, Friends, and Creativity: A Social Capital Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet A. Boekhorst ◽  
Michael Halinski ◽  
Jessica R.L. Good
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Capital Perspective

scholarly journals The Perceived Impact of Social Networking Sites and Apps on the Social Capital of Saudi Postgraduate Students: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Abdulelah A. Alghamdi ◽  
Margaret Plunkett
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

With the increased use of Social Networking Sites and Apps (SNSAs) in Saudi Arabia, it is important to consider the impact of this on the social lives of tertiary students, who are heavy users of such technology. A mixed methods study exploring the effect of SNSAs use on the social capital of Saudi postgraduate students was conducted using a multidimensional construct of social capital, which included the components of life satisfaction, social trust, civic participation, and political engagement. Data were collected through surveys and interviews involving 313 male and 293 female postgraduate students from Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) in Makkah. Findings show that male and female participants perceived SNSAs use impacting all components of social capital at a moderate and mainly positive level. Correlational analysis demonstrated medium to large positive correlations among components of social capital. Gender differences were not evident in the life satisfaction and social trust components; however, females reported more involvement with SNSAs for the purposes of political engagement while males reported more use for civic participation, which is an interesting finding, in light of the norms and traditional culture of Saudi society.

scholarly journals Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Lucassen
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving Europeans, published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in migration history into the general social and economic history of western Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new studies have proved her point and refined her model.

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