Women’s social media needs and online social capital: Bonding and bridging social capital in Pakistan

Aksar, Iffat Ali; Danaee, Mahmoud; Maqsood, Huma; Firdaus, Amira

doi:10.1080/10911359.2020.1790461

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“…However, the results of this study do not support the RQ1. Put it in another way, the findings of this study support the findings of the previous studies (Ahmad et al, 2016;Aksar et al, 2020;Eijaz, 2013;Pempek et al, 2009;Shaheen, 2008). Pakistan is a developing country where most of the population uses Facebook daily for socialization, information, knowledge, and political activities.…”

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“…Pakistan is a developing country where most of the population uses Facebook daily for socialization, information, knowledge, and political activities. Thus it serves as a platform for political discussion and sharing of social & religious issues (Aksar et al, 2020). It also acts as a 'virtual space' for sharing political information and exchange opinions regarding different topics.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The extensive use of social networking sites such as weblog and instant messages provides opportunities to create personal and official pages (Johnston et al, 2013) that help establish societal communities (Ellison et al, 2007). These networking sites provide a platform for discussing political, social, and religious issues (Aksar et al, 2020); bring about increased social circles based on shared interests; help people connect with old and new friends (Mehmood et al, 2018;Steinfield & Lampe, 2011); create a bridge between people for better communication and social well-being (Boyd & Ellison, 2008)), and to maintain social networks (Jin, 2013;Khamis & Vaughn, 2011). Over the last decade, computer and smartphone-based social communication has evolved into an extensive array of social networking sites (Hosseini et al, 2020), which ease and facilitate communication within societies (Howard, 2010).…”

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Impact of Facebook Usage on the Political Participation among Women in Pakistan

Shehzad¹,

Yousaf²,

Mahmood³

et al. 2021

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Social Media has become one of the effective forms of political communication in the contemporary age. Given this truism, this study intends to investigate the impact of Facebook usage on political participation among women in Pakistan. This study employed a crosssectional research design vis-à-vis survey method to find the relationship between Facebook usage and women's political participation, using Pakistan as our focus. A sample of 563 females aged 18 to 60 was selected. The findings of the study indicated that online political participation influenced offline political involvement among Pakistani women. It was further found that the purpose of Facebook usage also correlated with online political participation. In addition, this study is of the view that online political participation influenced offline political participation. The study's findings can encourage the female population to actively participate in the electoral process of the country -to improve voters' turnout and make the electoral process more diverse and representative.

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Impact of Facebook Usage on the Political Participation among Women in Pakistan

Shehzad¹,

Yousaf²,

Mahmood³

et al. 2021

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“…In Pakistan, it was not possible to adopt online teaching at the school level but in hard situations, they tried hard to get better results. Technological adaptation was difficult for Pakistan because there were no trained teachers, there was a lack of equipment, and lack of funds and planning (Ali Aksar, 2020). Moreover, during the pandemic, after the closing of the education system from regular classes to e-learning, the government approved learning through online management systems to administer online educational sessions.…”

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The aim of the current review was to carry out a comparative analysis of the adaptations of students and perspectives of teachers in two countries: Pakistan and Brazil. The analysis focuses on remote education in high school in these two countries. The realization of this research has a bibliographical and documental methodological approach. At the beginning the work structures an analysis of the Pakistani situation and later the Brazilian situation both following the same template; subsequently, a discussion of the results has begun. The study concluded with findings on the dynamics and similarities of educational setup between Brazil and Pakistan in the times of crisis with a particular focus on high schools.

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“…The importance of social capital research on social media has possible individual benefits in terms of student learning outcomes, based on the discussed benefits of weak ties as an example. Further benefits include a diverse set of research areas, including the challenge of the cultural barriers for women's economic independence and autonomy [90], highlighting the importance of these investigations aiming to reduce inequalities. This cruciality also manifests itself in labor market studies, wherein individual social capital can be considered as an enabler for successful labor market integration [91].…”

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Social Capital on Social Media—Concepts, Measurement Techniques and Trends in Operationalization

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Strauß

2020

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The introduction of the Web 2.0 era and the associated emergence of social media platforms opened an interdisciplinary research domain, wherein a growing number of studies are focusing on the interrelationship of social media usage and perceived individual social capital. The primary aim of the present study is to introduce the existing measurement techniques of social capital in this domain, explore trends, and offer promising directions and implications for future research. Applying the method of a scoping review, a set of 80 systematically identified scientific publications were analyzed, categorized, grouped and discussed. Focus was placed on the employed viewpoints and measurement techniques necessary to tap into the possible consistencies and/or heterogeneity in this domain in terms of operationalization. The results reveal that multiple views and measurement techniques are present in this research area, which might raise a challenge in future synthesis approaches, especially in the case of future meta-analytical contributions.

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Women’s social media needs and online social capital: Bonding and bridging social capital in Pakistan

Cited by 18 publications

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Impact of Facebook Usage on the Political Participation among Women in Pakistan

Impact of Facebook Usage on the Political Participation among Women in Pakistan

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Social Capital on Social Media—Concepts, Measurement Techniques and Trends in Operationalization

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