Getting Connected: Can Social Capital be Virtual?
Journal Title: Webology - Year 2006, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
This article reports on an analysis of data from a study conducted in Australia on the impact of Internet access on social capital. The debate regarding the definition of social capital is explored, and basic indicators of social capital resolved. The apparent emergence of the phenomenon of virtual social capital is also discussed. Australians overall have widely adopted the Internet as a source of information and communication. Data collected in a mass survey conducted in 2004 is analysed and considered. Factors associated with Internet access are: access to the Internet in the home and employment status. There are also strong links between the levels of education completed and use of the Internet. On the basis of the evidence, Australians with Internet access are more likely to engage in activities generally regarded as indicators of individual expressions of social capital.
Authors and Affiliations
Megan Alessandrini
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP687509
- DOI -
- Views 204
- Downloads 0
Developing people's information capabilities: fostering information literacy in educational, workplace and community contexts
This book includes four main sections and fifteen chapters which begins with a rich “preface” about the main objects of the book and why the editors published the work. The editors mentioned in the preface of the book th...
Evaluation of Effective Indicators on Promotion of Webometric Rank of Golestan University of Medical Sciences Website
Presence on the Web and the realization of webometric indicators are one of the most important indicators of reflecting the international presence of universities. This study evaluates the content and technical character...
Mapping a decade of linked data progress through co-word analysis
Linked data describes a method of publishing structured data which it can be interlinked and become more effective through semantic queries. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried. It builds...
The Institutional Repository
At a time when the future nature of scholarly communication and publishing are being debated this book serves as a useful reference guide for one of the key aspects- the institutional repository.
Citation analysis of Journal of Documentation
Citation analysis of all the journal articles published in the Journal of Documentation from 1996-2010 is carried out. 487 articles are published in the journal during 15 years. Highest numbers (44) of articles are publi...