Document Type : Research Paper
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Assistant Professor, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran,Tehran
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 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.
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