The general research question is: To what extent can the use of an Internet Café create social capital in a local community? In more detail: Does the use of an IT-Café lead to more social contacts? How can it provide community members with support and trust and generate community solidarity? Who are the users of the Café and what is it used for? Can usage of an IT-Café facilitate co-operation a...

How does the use of social networking sites (SNSs) affect social capital offline and online? The increasing popularity of SNSs such as Facebook (FB) implies a significant change in the way we interact with others. In an extensive longitudinal study (N = 311), carried out in Norway between 2008 2010, we examined the relationship between FB use and social capital, with a focus on interpersonal in...

The social capital and human capital have been conceptualized as key resources that may facilitate the performance of new ventures. Yet, despite a surge of studies examining the role of social capital and human capital in the entrepreneurial process, no quantitative assessments have been made of the empirical evidence to date. In an effort to systematically review past research results, I condu...

* This is a revised version of a keynote lecture presented at Workshop on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Links" organised by International Institute for Sustainable Development at Ottawa, Ontario, January 23, 2001. I wish to thank participants in the Workshop for suggestions that helped revise the paper.

We have benefited from the comments of John Hoddinott. The work reported here is the outcome of a collaborative project between researchers at IFPRI, the University of Natal, and the University of Wisconsin. In addition to support from these three institutions, the following provided financial support: the United States Agency for

Background/Context: Faced with rapidly changing demographics, districts are increasingly looking to partner with parents to support and improve student learning. Community organizing holds promise for pursuing educational equity through the development of low-income parent participation and leadership, but previous research has focused primarily on the use of structural social capital theory in...

Employing a theoretical framework based on social capital theory, we conceptualize previous citations by author A of author B as weak cooperation that indicates cognitive capital between these authors, and previous coauthorships between them as strong cooperation that captures relational capital between them. We propose that these two types of cooperation impact the citation behavior of author ...