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In platforms we trust : misinformation on social networks in the presence of social mistrust

Charlson, George - 2022 - Revised 13 April 2022

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Social networks and organizational helping behavior : experimental evidence from the helping game

Erkut, Hande; Reuben, Ernesto - 2023

This paper studies the causal impact of social ties and network structure on helping behavior in organizations. We introduce and experimentally study a game called the 'helping game,' where individuals unilaterally decide whether to incur a cost to help other team members when helping is a...

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Effects of global communication on national competitiveness : evidence from Twitter communication network

Seo, Il-Jung; Cho, Jae-Hee - In: Journal of international trade & commerce 12 (2016) 5, pp. 107-121

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The offline landscape of an online social network : distance and size shaping community spread and activity

Lengyel, Balázs; Jakobi, Ákos - 2012 - Version: June 2012

); internet-based communication seems to stimulate local offline communication (Storper and Venables, 2004). Social network sites … are major fields of online communication and "enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks" (boyd and … Ellison, 2007). Online social network (OSN) are large-scale networks and claimed to be supplemental forms of communication …

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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 - 2014

Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social 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...

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Online social networks and trust

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2015

We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the...

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The role of social media in enhancing the modern market relations

Ignatov, Augustin - In: CES working papers 11 (2019) 1, pp. 35-54

The Social media environment represents one of the most prospective domains of developing marketing campaigns. This fact is a result of the fundamental characteristics of social media networks which could be summarised by the following: low cost of developing an advertising campaign and a wide...

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Peer effect of iPhone adoptions on social networks

Ke, T. Tony; Yang, Clair Zhuqing - 2017 - Last revised: January 2017

This paper studies the peer effect of iPhone adoptions in China. We use a unique data set of iPhone adoption records from a provincial capital city in China, in a span of over four years starting from iPhone's first introduction to mainland China. We construct a social network using six month's...

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Keeping up with the e-Joneses : do online social networks raise social comparisons?

Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2018

Online social networks, such as Facebook, amplify the occasions for social comparisons which are detrimental to well-being. The authors test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons using Italian data from the Multipurpose Household Survey, and...

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Online networks, social interaction and segregation : an evolutionary approach

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio - 2018

There is growing evidence that face-to-face interaction is declining in many countries, exacerbating the phenomenon of social isolation. On the other hand, social interaction through online networking sites is steeply rising. To analyze these societal dynamics, we have built an evolutionary game...

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