Social capital and social support on the web: the case of an internet mother site

被引:222
作者
Drentea, P
Moren-Cross, JL
机构
[1] Univ Alabama Birmingham, Dept Sociol, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA
[2] Duke Univ, Dept Sociol, Durham, NC USA
关键词
social capital; social support; mothers; internet;
D O I
10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00464.x
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 [公共卫生与预防医学]; 120402 [社会医学与卫生事业管理];
摘要
Do virtual communities in cyberspace foster social capital and social support? Using participant observation and discourse analysis, we examine a mothering board on a parent's website and investigate whether social capital was present, and if so, how it was developed and used. We find three main types of communication emerge from our analysis: emotional support, instrumental support - both formal and informal, and community building/protection, all of which contribute to the creation and maintenance of social capital. Additionally, using sampling with replacement, we created a final data set of 180 mothers and report descriptive statistics to identify characteristics of those on the board.
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页码:920 / 943
页数:24
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