The use of online social networking sites to nurture and cultivate bonding social capital: A systematic review of the literature from 1997 to 2018

JR Williams - New Media & Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Any social phenomenon with more than a billion participants daily is ripe for investigation
into the implications of social capital. This research conducts a systematic review of the peer …

Social media and citizen engagement: A meta-analytic review

MM Skoric, Q Zhu, D Goh, N Pang - New media & society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This meta-analytic study reviews empirical research published from 2007 to 2013 with an
aim of providing robust conclusions about the relationship between social media use and …

Improving the health of emerging adult gamers—a scoping review of influences

D Micallef, L Parker, L Brennan, B Schivinski… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Emerging adults (EAs), defined as adults aged 18 to 25, remain a difficult group to engage in
healthy behaviours (including positive dieting and eating patterns). The environmental …

A meta-analysis of social networking online and social capital

D Liu, SE Ainsworth… - Review of General …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Social networking sites offer new avenues for interpersonal communication that may enable
people to build social capital. The meta-analyses reported in this paper evaluated the …

Creating customer loyalty in online brand communities

FF Cheng, CS Wu, YC Chen - Computers in Human Behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
Online social networking sites (SNSs) has become one of the most popular activities for
people accessing the Internet. In this regard, many Businesses create their online brand …

The civic and political significance of online participatory cultures among youth transitioning to adulthood

J Kahne, NJ Lee, JT Feezell - Journal of Information Technology & …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Much scholarship has examined how accessing news and other civic and politically oriented
online activities can influence offline civic and political behaviors. Much less is known about …

The effect of user experience in online games on word of mouth: A pleasure-arousal-dominance (PAD) model perspective

M Huang, R Ali, J Liao - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Online games are now a prosperous industry. Despite the popularity of online games, game
developers confront the short life cycle of online games. To tackle this significant challenge …

Gaming social capital: Exploring civic value in multiplayer video games

L Molyneux, K Vasudevan… - Journal of Computer …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Recent research suggests that social interactions in video games may lead to the
development of community bonding and prosocial attitudes. Building on this line of research …

MMORPG gaming and hostility predict Internet addiction symptoms in adolescents: An empirical multilevel longitudinal study

V Stavropoulos, DJ Kuss, MD Griffiths, P Wilson… - Addictive …, 2017 - Elsevier
Internet Addiction (IA) has become an increasingly researched topic. In the present study, IA
symptoms in adolescents were investigated longitudinally with specific focus on the …

Motivations for game play and the social capital and civic potential of video games

F Dalisay, MJ Kushin, M Yamamoto… - New Media & …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined the relationships between video game play motivations identified by
Yee (2006), social capital (measured by social trust and neighborliness), political …