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- The role of recipro...
- Zusatztitel
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Revised version, June 2012
- Abgebildete Person
- Erschienen
- 21. Juni 2012
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2012-031
- Schlagwort(e)
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Blogs
Friendship
LiveJournal
Reciprocation
Social Capital
Social Networks
- Zusammenfsg.
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This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals’ social networks. We follow the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year and investigate the extent to which initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. We adapt a standard capital investment model to study how reciprocation affects the build-up of the individual social capital of bloggers, as measured by their links and interactions with others. This allows us to measure the role of content production and relationship building in the dynamics of online social networks and to distinguish between the social networking and media aspects of blogging.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C33 - Models with Panel Data ; D85 - Network Formation and Analysis: Theory ; L82 - Entertainment; Media