Exploring the relationship between perceptions of social capital and enacted support online

Abstract

Humans always find themselves involved in social groups. Today, these groups are routinely mediated by communication technology. Web 2.0 -the social web-is characterized best as the set of tools that facilitate production and distribution of content produced by everyday people. In particular, there is currently pervasive interest in the relationship between this content, (online) social networks, the nature of people's relationships mediated by websites like Facebook.com, and the changing role people now play in the production and consumption of mass-mediated messages. Considering that sites like Facebook.com facilitate the accumulation of expansive networks of acquaintances, there are pressing questions about the relationship between the characteristics of online networks, access to social capital, and outcomes like psychological wellbeing and access to resources embedded in these networks.Social networks are the conduit for the entirety of human social behavior and are comprised by a range of relationships with varying qualities. Granovetter (1973Granovetter ( , 1982 was the first to formalize the nature of relationship strength in social networks by arguing that social networks consist of relationships ranging from very weak in strength to very strong. Weak and strong tie relationships afford access to

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