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Does Facebook make people lonely and unhappy? Empirical studies have produced conflicting results about the effect of social networking sites (SNS) use on individual welfare. We use a representative sample of the Italian population to investigate how actual and virtual networks of social...
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participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has … resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first … participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions. However, social trust …
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This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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We examine the long-run effect of homophily in online social networks on interpersonal interactions in local communities. We measure online homophily across counties in the US using Facebook data. For identification, we exploit a conflict between Facebook and Google over data sharing of user...
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participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has … resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first … sociability. We find that participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions …
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We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most … infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss …
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participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has … resulted in a steep rise in online social participation. Our study adds to this body of research by conducting the first … sociability. We find that participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face to face interactions …
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