Open AccessSocial Capital in Social Media Networks
Author(s) -
Jurgita Jurkevičienė,
Eglė Butkevičienė
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
filosofija. sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.214
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2424-4546
pISSN - 0235-7186
DOI - 10.6001/fil-soc.v29i2.3705
Subject(s) - social capital , social media , lithuanian , the internet , social engagement , social network (sociolinguistics) , sociology , world wide web , public relations , internet privacy , computer science , political science , social science , linguistics , philosophy
New social media such as Facebook and Google+ are web-based communication platforms that enable socially meaningful interactions between contacts in the virtual space (Ellison et al. 2014). Studies show that new social media are particularly conducive to social capital development, as they offer its users the possibility of creating heterogeneous, extremely large electronic social networks (Hampton et al. 2011). This article presents the results of a quantitative research study on the social capital and trust of the Lithuanian population in the electronic social networks. The study used an adapted D. Williams’ Internet Social Capital Scale (2006).