Internet use and social trust?
Dear all, I have been involved in the planning of a Swedish survey looking at motives for voluntary work and social trust (generally), and would like to include some questions on uses of the internet in relation to the development of social trust, social capital, and participation in voluntary work that has been tried out previously in international research during the last 2-3 years. Any suggestions of questions and/or publication where I can find this kind of research questions would be most helpful! Thank you in advance for your help, /Mia -- Mia Lövheim TD Lektor i Religionssociologi Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet Box 511 75120 Uppsala tel (+46)018-471 2168 mail mia.lovheim@teol.uu.se www.teol.uu.se Mia Lövheim PhD Post Doc/visiting researcher Department of Media and Communication P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo, Norway tel +47 228 50426 mail mia.lovheim@media.uio.no www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/women
For volunteer work, you might consider: Arai, S. M. (1999). Voluntary associations as spaces for democracy: toward a critical theory on volunteers. Guelph, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Arai, S. M. (2000). "Typology of volunteers for a changing sociopolitical context: The impact on social capital, citizenship and civil society." Loisir et Soeiete/Society and Leisure 23: 327-352. Arai, S. M. (2004). Volunteering in the Canadian context: Identity, civic participation and the politics of participation in serious leisure. Volunteering as leisure/Leisure as volunteering: An international assessment. R. A. Stebbins and M. Graham. Cambridge, MA, CABI Publishing: 151-177. I'm sure Susan has written more papers recently. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Internationalisation Project Officer Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Office: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Presenter, Internet Research 9.0, 15-18 October 2008, Copenhagen, DK --- On Tue, 10/2/09, Mia Lövheim <mia.lovheim@teol.uu.se> wrote: Make Yahoo!7 your homepage and win a trip to the Quiksilver Pro. Find out more
On 10-Feb-09, at 2:57 AM, Mia Lövheim wrote:
Dear all,
I have been involved in the planning of a Swedish survey looking at motives for voluntary work and social trust (generally), and would like to include some questions on uses of the internet in relation to the development of social trust, social capital, and participation in voluntary work that has been tried out previously in international research during the last 2-3 years.
Any suggestions of questions and/or publication where I can find this kind of research questions would be most helpful!
Thank you in advance for your help,
/Mia
see Canadian survey called the general social survey here for 2007 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.pl? Function=getSurvey&SDDS=4502&lang=en&db=imdb&adm=8&dis=2 a question was asked about online involvement in community groups. The questionnaire can be downloaded and viewed. Data in summary form may be free. There are options to buy more detailed data. Peter
You might have an interest in the most recent Future of the Internet survey from Pew Internet. It tested futures scenarios in which it was projected that social trust/tolerance might be heightened and in which it was projected that transparency will heighten individual integrity and forgiveness. Trust issues are incorporated in both of these questions. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2008survey/internet_and_ tolerance_2020.xhtml http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2008survey/internet_and_ privacy_identity_2020.xhtml Janna On 2/12/09 6:22 AM, "Peter Timusk" <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 10-Feb-09, at 2:57 AM, Mia Lövheim wrote:
Dear all,
I have been involved in the planning of a Swedish survey looking at motives for voluntary work and social trust (generally), and would like to include some questions on uses of the internet in relation to the development of social trust, social capital, and participation in voluntary work that has been tried out previously in international research during the last 2-3 years.
Any suggestions of questions and/or publication where I can find this kind of research questions would be most helpful!
Thank you in advance for your help,
/Mia
see Canadian survey called the general social survey here for 2007
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.pl? Function=getSurvey&SDDS=4502&lang=en&db=imdb&adm=8&dis=2
a question was asked about online involvement in community groups.
The questionnaire can be downloaded and viewed. Data in summary form may be free. There are options to buy more detailed data.
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Dear all, I'm interested in application of network analysis towards semantic web features of SNS and especially FOAF. Do you know any research about that, besides the article of John C. Paolillo and Elijah Wright "Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web:Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF" and Jennifer Goldbeck's research about computing trust and recommendation measures by means of FOAF: http://trust.mindswap.org/ Actually, I'm mostly interested in sociological applications and interpretations of the structure of FOAF networks, rather that some computing problems with computing this networks and building visualizations. For example, is it possible to say something about person's or whole network's social capital after the analysis of the semantic structure of relationships among its members? Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Alexander.
Hello, Mia. Talking about Internet and Trust, I can mention the problem of social capital, which is closely related to the question of trust. Barry Wellman has several publications about it:"How does the Internet Affect Social Capital" ( www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/internetsocialcapital/Net_SC-09.PDF) "Network Capital in a Multi-Level World" ( www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/networkcapital/hlmnan10.pdf) Also he participated in the Pew Internet Project's research "The Strength of Internet Ties" (www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Internet_ties.pdf) which deals with problems of weak and strong ties of people who use and don't use Internet. Hope it hepls. Best wishes, Alexander. 2009/2/10 Mia Lövheim <mia.lovheim@teol.uu.se>
Dear all,
I have been involved in the planning of a Swedish survey looking at motives for voluntary work and social trust (generally), and would like to include some questions on uses of the internet in relation to the development of social trust, social capital, and participation in voluntary work that has been tried out previously in international research during the last 2-3 years.
Any suggestions of questions and/or publication where I can find this kind of research questions would be most helpful!
Thank you in advance for your help,
/Mia
-- Mia Lövheim TD Lektor i Religionssociologi Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet Box 511 75120 Uppsala tel (+46)018-471 2168 mail mia.lovheim@teol.uu.se www.teol.uu.se
Mia Lövheim PhD Post Doc/visiting researcher Department of Media and Communication P.O. Box 1093 Blindern NO-0317 Oslo, Norway tel +47 228 50426 mail mia.lovheim@media.uio.no www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/women
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Alexander Semenov -
Denise N. Rall -
Janna Anderson -
Mia Lövheim -
Peter Timusk -
Semenov Alexander