The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
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The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed.
Replications
- Does Facebook Use Predict College Students' Social Capital? A Replication of Ellison, Steinfield, and Lampe's (2007) Study Using the Original and More Recent Measures of Facebook Use and Social Capital, Vanden Abeele et al. (2018). Outcome recorded: mixed.
We found that Facebook intensity positively predicts the original social capital measures, lending support to the validity of the original findings. Its relationship with structural measures, however, was weak for bridging and absent for bonding social capital.
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