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Online social networks and trust
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189013
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Online and offline social participation and social poverty traps. Can social networks save human relations?
Antoci, A.; Sabatini, F.; Sodini, M. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2014
In this study, we develop an evolutionary game model to analyse how human relations evolve in a context characterised by declining face-to-face interactions and growing online social participation. Our results suggest that online networks may constitute a coping response allowing individuals to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860649
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Online and offline social participation and social poverty traps. Can social networks save human relations?
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this study, we develop an evolutionary game model to analyse how human relations evolve in a context characterised by declining face-to-face interactions and growing online social participation. Our results suggest that online networks may constitute a coping response allowing individuals to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114473
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See you on Facebook: the effect of social networking on human interaction
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper proposes an evolutionary framework to explore the dynamics of social interaction in an environment characterized by online networking and increasing pressure on time. The model shows how time pressure encourages the choice to develop social interactions also through online networking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777397
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Will Facebook save or destroy social capital? : an empirical investigation into the effect of online interactions on trust and networks
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011856872
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Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The objective of this paper is to theoretically analyze how human interaction may evolve in a world characterized by the explosion of online networking and other Web-mediated ways of building and nurturing relationships. The analysis shows that online networking yields a storage mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325632
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E-Participation : Social Capital and the Internet
Sabatini, Fabio - 2014
telecommunication infrastructures that exogenously determined the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet. We find that … participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions. However, social trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046291
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Bridges in social capital: A review of the definitions and the social capital of social capital researchers
Akcomak, Semih - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
There has been a recent surge of interest in social economics and social capital. Articles on social capital that are published in the last five years constitute more than 60 percent of all articles on social capital. Research on social capital is now massive and spans sociology, economics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856316
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Bridges in social capital: A review of the definitions and the social capital of social capital researchers
Akcomak, Semih - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
There has been a recent surge of interest in social economics and social capital. Articles on social capital that are published in the last five years constitute more than 60 percent of all articles on social capital. Research on social capital is now massive and spans sociology, economics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150809
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The solaria syndrome: social capital in a growing hyper-technological economy
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - 2010
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272413