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Online Social Capital in Political Contexts:Does the ”Online” Make Any Difference
SNA Summer School 20131
Javier Sajuria
Department of Political Science ScienceUniversity College London
August 2013
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Paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2224874Slides: http://slidesha.re/17x6DeV
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Research Question
How does online social capital differ from offline social capital?
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What is Social Capital?
”Social networks that operate under norms of trust andreciprocity, and able to mobilise resources and information. ”
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Based on this definition, my doctoralresearch attempts to cover three dimensionsof social capital:
• Networks operating under norms of trust and reciprocity• Resources• Outcomes
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”Social Capital Dichotomies”
• Individual vs. Collective• Network structure (brokerage and closure)• Offline and online→ Internet as a research framework
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Social Capital NetworkTheory(Burt 2005)
• Closure: Tight groups→ norms→ trustOperationalisation: average clustering coefficient
• Brokerage: bridges across structural holes→ mobiliseresources across the networkOperationalisation: average network constraint index
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Data and Methods
• Occupy Research Project Datasetswww.occupyresearch.net
• #OWS• #OccupyWallStreet• #OccupyOakland• #OccupyBoston• #OccupyLondon
• September/October 2011 to February 2012• Twitter Streaming API (for a discussion on the representativeness
of the streaming API, check Morstatter et al. 2013)
• Social network analysis using gephi, R (igraph, rgexf)
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Descriptive Statistics
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Closure and Brokerage
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Network GraphsVisualizations using OpenOrd algorithm
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Concluding thoughts
• Interplay between brokerage and closure seems consistentwith theory
• Closure is low→ if there is social capital here, where istrust created?
• Offline interactions→We can’t see where it is created• Bonding and Bridging Social Capital• Conceptual problem→ there is no social capital here, just
interactions with no trust• Utopian rhetoric
• Network performance→ if social capital is related withsuccessful networks, then how can we assess it?
• Another events/contexts/methods.
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Thanks!
@jsajuriahttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/people/research-students/
javier-sajuria