empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and … participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions. However, social trust … of trust. …

Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …

neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …