Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network

The use of social network sites helps people to make and maintain social ties accumulating social capital, which is increasingly important for individual success. There is a wide variation in the amount and structure of online ties, and to some extent this variation is contingent on specific online...

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Main Authors: Rykov, Yuri, Koltsova, Olessia, Sinyavskaya, Yadviga
Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1463372023-03-05T16:43:48Z Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network Rykov, Yuri Koltsova, Olessia Sinyavskaya, Yadviga Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Centre for Population Health Sciences Science::Medicine User Behaviors Online Social Network The use of social network sites helps people to make and maintain social ties accumulating social capital, which is increasingly important for individual success. There is a wide variation in the amount and structure of online ties, and to some extent this variation is contingent on specific online user behaviors which are to date under-researched. In this work, we examine an entire city-bounded friendship network (N = 194,601) extracted from VK social network site to explore how specific online user behaviors are related to structural social capital in a network of geographically proximate ties. Social network analysis was used to evaluate individual social capital as a network asset, and multiple regression analysis-to determine and estimate the effects of online user behaviors on social capital. The analysis reveals that the graph is both clustered and highly centralized which suggests the presence of a hierarchical structure: a set of sub-communities united by city-level hubs. Against this background, membership in more online groups is positively associated with user's brokerage in the location-bounded network. Additionally, the share of local friends, the number of received likes and the duration of SNS use are associated with social capital indicators. This contributes to the literature on the formation of online social capital, examined at the level of a large and geographically localized population. Published version 2021-02-09T09:20:45Z 2021-02-09T09:20:45Z 2020 Journal Article Rykov, Y., Koltsova, O., & Sinyavskaya, Y. (2020). Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0231837-. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231837 1932-6203 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146337 10.1371/journal.pone.0231837 32324820 2-s2.0-85083718385 4 15 en PLoS ONE © 2020 Rykovet al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. application/pdf
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topic Science::Medicine
User Behaviors
Online Social Network
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User Behaviors
Online Social Network
Rykov, Yuri
Koltsova, Olessia
Sinyavskaya, Yadviga
Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network
description The use of social network sites helps people to make and maintain social ties accumulating social capital, which is increasingly important for individual success. There is a wide variation in the amount and structure of online ties, and to some extent this variation is contingent on specific online user behaviors which are to date under-researched. In this work, we examine an entire city-bounded friendship network (N = 194,601) extracted from VK social network site to explore how specific online user behaviors are related to structural social capital in a network of geographically proximate ties. Social network analysis was used to evaluate individual social capital as a network asset, and multiple regression analysis-to determine and estimate the effects of online user behaviors on social capital. The analysis reveals that the graph is both clustered and highly centralized which suggests the presence of a hierarchical structure: a set of sub-communities united by city-level hubs. Against this background, membership in more online groups is positively associated with user's brokerage in the location-bounded network. Additionally, the share of local friends, the number of received likes and the duration of SNS use are associated with social capital indicators. This contributes to the literature on the formation of online social capital, examined at the level of a large and geographically localized population.
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Rykov, Yuri
Koltsova, Olessia
Sinyavskaya, Yadviga
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Koltsova, Olessia
Sinyavskaya, Yadviga
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title Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network
title_short Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network
title_full Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network
title_fullStr Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network
title_full_unstemmed Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network
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