This research investigates the creation of online social capital among members of the rural maritime community. The major goal of this study is to determine how much the maritime community uses online networking and how social capital grows within the community via the internet. In-depth...

Social network sites like MySpace and Facebook serve as "networked publics." As with unmediated publics like parks and malls, youth use networked publics to gather, socialize with their peers, and make sense of and help build the culture around them. This article examines American youth...