Online Social Capital: Recent Trends in Research

Authors

Erin L. Spottswood, Portland State UniversityFollow
Donghee Yvette Wohn, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Published In

Current Opinion in Psychology

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

8-8-2020

Abstract

Research examining online social capital has grown since the introduction of information communication technologies (ICTs) into our everyday lives. This paper discusses recent trends in the research that examines how people are using ICTs to accumulate, increase, and utilize their offline and online social capital resources. These trends include the blurring gap between offline and online social capital, examining the use of new platforms to obtain online social capital, increased specificity concerning the types of online social capital that can be sought, how taking advantage of online social capital resources affects personal well-being, and how researchers are moving beyond the college-aged population in their online social capital studies.

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Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.07.031

DOI

10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.07.031

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34067

Citation Details

Spottswood, E., & Wohn, D. Y. (2020). Online Social Capital: Recent Trends in Research. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COPSYC.2020.07.031