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Social Capital and the Internet: Evidence from Swiss Panel Data.

A lively debate has recently emerged about the consequences of the diffusion of the Internet. While many social scientists emphasize the beneficial economic consequences of the Internet some suspect that it has also disadvantages for users' social capital. So far the existing empirical evidence conc...

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Published in:Kyklos Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 341 - 361
Main Author: Franzen, Axel
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2003
Subjects:
Internet & society
Infrastructure (Economics)
Social participation
Internet
Switzerland
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