Social Media Social Capital, Offline Social Capital, and Citizenship: Exploring Asymmetrical Social Capital Effects

Zúñiga, Homero Gil de; Barnidge, Matthew; Scherman, Andrés

doi:10.1080/10584609.2016.1227000

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“…Bimber proposes three distinct but related theoretical explanations: organizationprompted behavior (traditional forms of participation that are enhanced, and often encouraged by the adaption of organized and formally structured initiatives to digital environments), socially prompted behavior (civic behavior based on awareness that other people are performing similar activities), and self-prompted behavior (actions that are based on personal initiative as a result of exposure to information rather than direct encouragement from organizations or other users, facilitated especially by access to a plethora of social media and the resultant lowered costs of such actions). The subsequent articles included in this special issue are bound around this theoretical approach focusing on incentives or/and encouragement (Gil de Zuniga, Barnidge, & Scherman, 2017;Lilleker & Koc-Michalska, 2017;Vaccari, 2017) or how distinct forms of organization-prompted participation (Gibson, Greffet, & Cantijoch, 2017) and socially prompted participation (Zhu, Skoric, & Shen, 2017) take place in a digital media environment.…”

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Digital Politics: Mobilization, Engagement, and Participation

Koc-Michalska¹,

Lilleker

2016

Political Communication

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International audienceA wealth of studies have explored online political communication since the early 1990s, and parallel significant interest has been given to how digital technologies offer pathways to participation. We have learned from a range of studies, most of which are referenced across the essays, that digital technologies, and particular the spaces that permit social interaction, may facilitate forms of political engagement

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Digital Politics: Mobilization, Engagement, and Participation

Koc-Michalska¹,

Lilleker

2016

Political Communication

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“…de Zúñiga et al [36] argue that the processes of obtaining and using social capital on social media differs in nature from those relating to social capital in face-to-face settings. They argue that "social media has changed the structure and nature of social connection, and therefore that they may alter the distribution and nature of social capital embedded in those social relationships" [36, p. 45].…”

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The Town Square in Your Pocket: Exploring Four Metaphors of Social Media

Roux

Parry

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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In this paper we explore the use of four metaphors as a means to illuminate particular dimensions of social media logic-the norms, strategies, and economics underpinning its dynamics. Our objective is to utilise metaphor to instigate critical reflection about the nature of social media use behaviour and the role of habitual social media use in our experiences of reality. The first metaphor, social media as a town square, draws attention to the centrality of social media platforms in their users' lives, fear of missing out, augmented reality and digital dualism. Through the second metaphor, social media as a beauty pageant, we explore self-presentation or image crafting, social comparison and selfevaluation. The third metaphor, social media as a parliament, emphasises the role of social media platforms as spaces for online deliberation and we consider social media capital, homophily and polarisation as themes. Finally, we explore anonymity, deindividuation and deceptive self-presentation through our fourth metaphor, social media as a masquerade ball. We argue that social media scholars can use these and other metaphors to enhance communication of their research findings. Additionally, we believe that social media metaphors can be powerful pedagogical and communication tools, particularly when working with students for whom high levels of social media use is the norm.

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“…La fortaleza de los vínculos creados por el capital social de las redes sociales en línea permite que el debate sobre los asuntos que afectan a determinadas comunidades trascienda el espacio digital e involucre a nuevos actores comprometidos con la discusión pública (Gil de Zúñiga et al, 2017).…”

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