fateme taheri
Abstract
Social capital is defined by the World Bank as social norms hidden in social structures, which has the role of coordinating people's actions to achieve goals. With the increase of electronic communication, the platform of social capital has changed and the concern of researchers has moved towards ...
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Social capital is defined by the World Bank as social norms hidden in social structures, which has the role of coordinating people's actions to achieve goals. With the increase of electronic communication, the platform of social capital has changed and the concern of researchers has moved towards online social capital. The purpose of this article is to analyze the opinions of experts against and in favor of the emergence of this variable. Due to the review nature of the article, 138 internationally articles were reviewed, and due to the inappropriateness of the title, abstract, and content of 78 articles, 60 were considered for final review. The review of these cases examines the studies conducted in the field of online social capital and the results from the experts' point of view. The results show that although online social capital has been approved by researchers to a large extent, the opposing opinions in this regard show that the use of online social capital in a favorable situation requires strengthening of electronic communication skills, platform development. Different types and how to use them correctly. So there is still no collective agreement among experts regarding the status of social capital in online social networks, and more research is needed to identify the status of this nascent concept more clearly. This study, as an opening to start coherent studies of the state of social capital in social networks and electronic communications, guides the importance and necessity of different qualitative and quantitative researches in this connection.
Seyed Zia Hashemi; Mohammad Rahbari
Abstract
Development of online social networks in recent years and creation of more ease for accessing to these networks via smart phones, has influenced people’s culture especially young people who use these networks daily. Among these networks, Twitter has different role because its access is prohibited ...
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Development of online social networks in recent years and creation of more ease for accessing to these networks via smart phones, has influenced people’s culture especially young people who use these networks daily. Among these networks, Twitter has different role because its access is prohibited in Iran and also many of its users have anonymous activity in it. So it creates an environment that users can talk in it more freely or as Hirschi says, there is less social control on these users. The lower social control in Twitter, may increase the amount of vulgar contents in it. So, understanding the role of Twitter in using vulgar contents as an abnormal behavior, is important for assessing the normative effects of using Twitter on its users.In this study, the content of Tweeter, from 1388 to 1396, is analyzed by using keyword-based data mining and descriptive-statistical method. Findings from data mining on 82 million tweets show that users have increasingly tweeted vulgar contents in early years of using Twitter in Iran. However, since 1392, the rate of using these contents have been relatively constant, and only 3 to 4 percent of all tweets have had vulgar contents. Therefore, in contrary to the first hypothesis, Twitter has not eliminated the obscenity of vulgar content. The reason can be the development of new values in this virtual community and the increase of social control, which is the result of more tweeting with real names and badges.
