Testing the validity of social capital measures in the study of information and communication technologies

Autor:	Patricia Moore, Maria Dwyer, Ziad Matni, Rannie Teodoro, Lora Appel, Keith N. Hampton, Punit Dadlani, Vanessa Kitzie
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Social network Individual capital business.industry Communication Population Library and Information Sciences Social mobility Social engagement Social support Social competence Sociology Marketing business education Social psychology Social capital
Zdroj:	Information, Communication & Society. 17:398-416
ISSN:	1468-4462 1369-118X 1083-6101
DOI:	10.1080/1369118x.2014.884612
Popis:	Social capital has been considered a cause and consequence of various uses of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, there is a growing divergence between how social capital is commonly measured in the study of ICTs and how it is measured in other fields. This departure raises questions about the validity of some of the most widely cited studies of social capital and ICTs. We compare the Internet Social Capital Scales (ISCS) developed by Williams [2006. On and off the ’net: scales for social capital in an online era. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2), 593–628. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00029.x] – a series of psychometric scales commonly used to measure ‘social capital’ – to established, structural measures of social capital: name, position, and resource generators. Based on a survey of 880 undergraduate students (the population to which the ISCS has been most frequently administered), we find that, unlike structural measures, the ISCS does not distinguish betwe...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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