Undoubtedly, the social world is changing and one of the main factors of transformation in the current world is new and modern technological achievements which are considered as modern media. However, due to their emerging nature of these media, there has been no agreement on their positive or negative effects and there have been different ideas about the effect of these modern media...

W investigate the epistemology of trust in social networks. We posit trust as a special epistemic state that depends on actors’ beliefs about each others’ beliefs as well as about states of the world. It offers new ideas and tools for representing the core elements of trust both within dyads and larger groups and presents an approach that makes trust measurable in a noncircular and predictive, ...

In this paper, we analyse the sustainability of social networks using STrust, our social trust model. The novelty of the model is that it introduces the concept of engagement trust and combines it with the popularity trust to derive the social trust of the community as well as of individual members in the community. This enables the recommender system to use these different types of trust to re...

5 Social networks and social capital are generally considered to be important 6 variables in explaining the diffusion of behavior. However, it is contested 7 whether the actual social connections, cultural discourse, or individual 8 preferences determine this diffusion. Using discrete choice analysis applied 9 to longitudinal Twitter data, we are able to distinguish between social 10 network in...

This article is concerned with exploring how children develop and utilize stocks of social capital. It draws on two research projects illustrating children’s family, peer and community networks. In the burgeoning literature on social capital, children’s accounts remain under-researched. Indeed most of the literature operates with a simplistic view of adults passing social capital assets on to c...

Online networks can be construed as social networks in which people engage in interactions, build relationships, share information, and request and extend assistance to each other using electronic communication technologies. Is social capital embedded in online networks? How is such social capital mobilized (i.e., shared)? What structural properties of cyber networks are associated with mobiliz...

this research by a quantitative approach tries to study the effect of self-disclosure in social networks on the development of social capital. in this regard, the main emphasis is on the role of spiritual capital. study population is students of tehran university and eventually 380 participated in this study. a questionnaire with five point likert scales that designed from credible sources were...