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Revisiting 'bridging or binding': social capital and the uses of Instant Messenger (IM) and blog

Author(s) -

Hong Chi Shiau

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

international journal of electronic democracy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1742-4224

pISSN - 1742-4232

DOI - 10.1504/ijed.2008.021279

Subject(s) - bridging (networking) , social media , instant , social capital , sociology , advertising , business , computer science , internet privacy , world wide web , chemistry , food science , computer security , social science

This study investigates two popular internet uses: Instant Messenger (IM) and web blogs, of which many functions were enabled by the advanced technologies. The results revealed that users in IM network are more likely to bond, whereas users in web blog network are more likely to bridge. The time spent on IM network is a strong and valid predisposition factor for bonding social capital. However, it is against prediction that the bonding or bridging social capital is not related with the size of a network.

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