Redefining Social Capital by Social Media
What is social capital and what effect do social media have on its development?
Capital is not only about some money or investment which sounds more familiar before. Capital is also about some values and norms that are priceless than money. The term “social capital” refers to some fundamental ways, norms and value about how people interact and communicate each other. Knoke (1999) in www.socialcapitalresearch.com defined social capital as "the process by which social actors create and mobilize their network connections within and between organizations to gain access to other social actors' resources”. Some people might say that social capital had less and less developed through the discovery and invention of technology. People choose to spend their time more on their gadget than interact with other people directly.
When related to social media, there are some perspectives that can represent the relation. In Indonesia, nowadays children are likely spend their time in front of their computer or smartphone on chat or play games in some social medias, such as Facebook rather than playing soccer or just having some conversation outside home. The traditional games has already replaced with some new games via social media. With the new emerging technology, people have many possibilities to use their time as effective as they can. Social media becomes one of their ways to connect and interact with others by not seeing each other face to face. The network in social media has provided wider scope to facilitate people communicate each other across states and nations yet also redefine the value of communication itself.
Is social capital only defined when two people (or more) meet face to face? In some cases, social media precisely become a new way of many communities to interact by having forum, discussions, or keeping in touch in their busy days. There are lots of group based on hometown, hobbies, or political interests in social media which have high online traffic. When two people across nations tend to communicate each other before, they had to call via telephone which costs quiet a lot or send letter which costs plenty of time. By social media, social capital has been redefined. Communication is also valued when two people see each other by chatting with web camera by skype or when they had a serious discussion in one of Facebook forum. Social media has improved the way to develop social capital by emerging it with technology.
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Capital is not only about some money or investment which sounds more familiar before. Capital is also about some values and norms that are priceless than money. The term “social capital” refers to some fundamental ways, norms and value about how people interact and communicate each other. Knoke (1999) in www.socialcapitalresearch.com defined social capital as "the process by which social actors create and mobilize their network connections within and between organizations to gain access to other social actors' resources”. Some people might say that social capital had less and less developed through the discovery and invention of technology. People choose to spend their time more on their gadget than interact with other people directly.
When related to social media, there are some perspectives that can represent the relation. In Indonesia, nowadays children are likely spend their time in front of their computer or smartphone on chat or play games in some social medias, such as Facebook rather than playing soccer or just having some conversation outside home. The traditional games has already replaced with some new games via social media. With the new emerging technology, people have many possibilities to use their time as effective as they can. Social media becomes one of their ways to connect and interact with others by not seeing each other face to face. The network in social media has provided wider scope to facilitate people communicate each other across states and nations yet also redefine the value of communication itself.
Is social capital only defined when two people (or more) meet face to face? In some cases, social media precisely become a new way of many communities to interact by having forum, discussions, or keeping in touch in their busy days. There are lots of group based on hometown, hobbies, or political interests in social media which have high online traffic. When two people across nations tend to communicate each other before, they had to call via telephone which costs quiet a lot or send letter which costs plenty of time. By social media, social capital has been redefined. Communication is also valued when two people see each other by chatting with web camera by skype or when they had a serious discussion in one of Facebook forum. Social media has improved the way to develop social capital by emerging it with technology.
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