Sabatini, Fabio and Sarracino, Francesco (2015): Online social networks and trust.
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We explore how participation in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter affects the most economically relevant aspect of social capital, trust. We use measures of trust in strangers (or social trust), trust in neighbours and trust in the police. We address endogeneity in the use of SNS by exploiting the variation in the availability of broadband for high-speed Internet, which relates to technological characteristics of the pre-existing voice telecommunication infrastructures. We find that all the proxies of trust significantly decrease with participation in online networks. We discuss several interpretations of the results in light of the specific features of Internet-mediated social interaction.
Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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Original Title: | Online social networks and trust |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | Internet; broadband; online networks; social networking sites; Facebook; trust; social capital; hate speech |
Subjects: | D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D89 - Other O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights > O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z19 - Other |
Item ID: | 62506 |
Depositing User: | Fabio Sabatini |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2015 15:04 |
Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2019 15:46 |
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URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/62506 |