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"Social Capital or Social Alienation? Portuguese Youth and Social Networking Sites. An exploratory study" - presented at the International Sociological Association World Congress, 11-17 July, 2010, Gothenburg, SwedenTRANSCRIPT
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Social Capital or Social Alienation? Portuguese Youth and Social
Networking Sites
An exploratory study
Bárbara Barbosa NevesFausto Amaro
Centre for Public Administration & Policies,Institute of Social and Political Sciences of
Technical University of Lisbon,Portugal
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Social Networking Sites?
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SNS in PortugalPOR TUGAL
EUROPE
LISBON
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Impact of SNS
How are social networking sites affecting the lives of young people?
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Our project• How are the Portuguese youth using social
networking sites? How is this usage affecting their sociability and social capital?
• Web survey with facebook and hi5 Portuguese users - August 2009 to March 2010.
• 160 respondents between 15 and 29 years old.
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Online Survey: Demographics• 160 users:
28
21
111
% or Mean S.D.
Gender
female 58.7% (94)
male 41.3% (66)
Age 24.94 3.21
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Social network: close friends
• 73% meet their friends face-to-face more than once a month;
• 70% use mobile phone to call their friends, daily;
• 75% chat with their friends online, on a daily basis.
Mean 4.95S.D. 1.302
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Social network: Family
• 67% meet their close family face-to-face daily
• 54% use mobile phone to talk to their close family more than once a week
• 8.8% chat daily with their close family online
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N=139
1.9%
14.4%
17.5%
10.0%10.0%
7.5%2.5%
23.1%
More than once an hour
Once a day
More than once a day
Once a week
More than once a week
Once a month
More than once a month
Rarely
Frequency on hi5
N=139
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10.6%
14.4%
38.8%
3.8%
9.4%
0.6% 1.9% 3.1%
More than once an hourOnce a dayMore than once a dayOnce a weekMore than once a weekOnce a monthMore than once a monthRarely
N=132
Frequency on facebook
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Friends on SNS
Number of “friends”
Closefriends
Number of “friends”
Closefriends
Mean 328.27 15.43 147.70 15
Median 263 8 102 8
S.D. 331.316 1.414 177.140 1.252
N=160
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Reasons to use hi5
83.0%
15.6%
33.8%
6.9%35.0%
31.9%
19.4%
20.6%
8.1%22.5%
25.6% 6.3%
Communicate with friends
Communicate with family
Communicate with school friends
Communicate with co-workers
Check what friends are doing
Check info about people
Meet new people
Share info
Play games
Have fun
Occupy my free time
FlirtN=139
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Reasons to use facebook
71.3%
24.4%
39.4%
31.3%
50.6%36.9%
18.8%
34.4%
29.4%
43.1%18.8%
36.9% 5.0%
Communicate with friends
Communicate with family
Communicate with school friends
Communicate with co-workers
Check what friends are doing
Check info about people
Meet new people
Share info
Play games
Have fun
Occupy my free time
FlirtN=132
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Bonding SC hi5Scale and Individual Items Mean S.D.
Bonding Scale*(Cronbach’s alpha = 0.78)
2.98 .96
This community is a good place to be 3.09 .78I feel connected to this community 2.78 .95I worry with the community 2.86 1.03I have close friends in this community 3.98 .95This community makes my life easier 2.41 .89My close family is part of my community 2.73 1.16
* Response categories ranged from 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree.
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Bonding SC facebookScale and Individual Items Mean S.D.
Bonding Scale*(Cronbach’s alpha = 0.72)
3.32 .86
This community is a good place to be 3.77 .72I feel connected to this community 3.45 .82I worry with the community 3.20 .97I have close friends in this community 4.10 .59This community makes my life easier 2.85 1.02My close family is part of my community 2.56 1.26
* Response categories ranged from 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree.
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Bridging SC hi5Scale and Individual Items Mean S.D.
Bridging Scale*(Cronbach’s alpha = 0.75)
2.96 1.02
This community is a good place to be 3.09 .78I feel connected to this community 2.78 .95I can talk to others about difficulties in the community
2.84 .97
I have more contact with acquaintances 3.36 1.13I made new friends in this community 2.74 1.29
* Response categories ranged from 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree.
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Bridging SC facebookScale and Individual Items Mean S.D.
Bridging Scale*(Cronbach’s alpha = 0.70)
3.30 .96
This community is a good place to be 3.77 .72I feel connected to this community 3.45 .82I can talk to others about difficulties in the community
3.18 .96
I have more contact with acquaintances 3.50 1.06I made new friends in this community 2.62 1.23
* Response categories ranged from 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree.
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Closing Remarks
• SNS seem to be mainly spaces of social interaction and socialization.
• “Rich get richer model”
• Need to know more of the “why” and not only “what”