Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and …-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into …

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …

around the world. We find the evidence of a strong, positive correlation between Facebook penetration (a proxy for social … point) increase in Facebook penetration is associated with about 8-point (on a scale of 0-100) increase for the world sample …

We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most … broadband for high-speed Internet, which relates to technological characteristics of the pre- existing voice telecommunication … several interpretations of the results in light of the specific features of Internet-mediated social interaction. …

; specifically, then, an approach that allows comparing the management strategies used in these two areas. The research takes a … significant differences in the management approaches applied in these two continents. Even though the digital marketing strategies …