Civic Engagement as an Externality of Social Capital

Investigating Civic Engagement in Social Media

In the field of Information Systems, scholars have empirically investigated the use of social media as an IT artifact and its influences, offering various understandings of online human behaviour, particularly for business, psychology and sociology implications. Very often, research on social media usage can be classified into internal (e.g. entertainment and satisfaction) and external factors ...

One tool to spatialize all : sense of place , social capital and civic engagement

The spatialization of social concepts in to the city context is becoming a need. However, currently, there are few tools to directly spatialize environmental psychology concepts, such as sense of place, or social and participatory concepts, such as social capital and civic engagement. Furthermore, most existing tools are not taking full advantage of Geographical Information Science (GISc) capab...

Understanding civic engagement behaviour on Facebook from a social capital theory perspective

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Making Democracies Work: Social Capital and Civic Engagement in 47 Societies

Synopsis: Many theorists have long emphasized the importance of civic society and voluntary associations as vital to the lifeblood of democracy. Interest in this perennial topic has been revived by Putnam’s theory of social capital claiming that rich and dense associational networks facilitate the underlying conditions of interpersonal trust, tolerance and cooperation, providing the social foun...

Civic Engagement, Social Cohesion and Social Integration in Toronto, Canada