Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment Export

@misc{citeulike:149147, abstract = {How does the Internet affect social capital? Do the communication possibilities of the Internet increase, decrease, or supplement interpersonal contact, participation, and community commitment? Our evidence comes from a 1998 survey of 39,211 visitors to the National Geographic Society website, one of the first large-scale web surveys. We find that people's interaction online supplements their face-to-face and telephone communication, without increasing or decreasing it. However, Internet use is ...}, author = {Wellman, B. and Haase, A. and Witte, J. and Hampton, K.}, citeulike-article-id = {149147}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.3156}, keywords = {internet, socialcapital, socialinformatics}, posted-at = {2005-05-05 18:44:04}, priority = {4}, title = {Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.3156}, year = {2001} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:149147 L3 - citeulike-article-id:149147 N2 - How does the Internet affect social capital? Do the communication possibilities of the Internet increase, decrease, or supplement interpersonal contact, participation, and community commitment? Our evidence comes from a 1998 survey of 39,211 visitors to the National Geographic Society website, one of the first large-scale web surveys. We find that people's interaction online supplements their face-to-face and telephone communication, without increasing or decreasing it. However, Internet use is ... TI - Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment KW - internet KW - socialcapital KW - socialinformatics AU - Wellman, B AU - Haase, A AU - Witte, J AU - Hampton, K PY - 2001/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.3156 ER -