Online and Offline Social Participation and Social Poverty Traps: Can Social Networks Save Human Relations?

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro

doi:10.1080/0022250x.2015.1022278

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“…It allows us to give a complete classification of all the possible dynamic regimes that may be observed under systems (3a, 3b and 3c). The computations allowing us to apply Bomze’s classification to our model are very simple and we omit them (see [45], for an example of application of Bomze’s classification method).…”

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“…[45] theoretically analysed the evolution of social participation and the accumulation of social capital in relation to technological progress and online networking. Their results suggest that, under certain conditions, the stock of information and social ties accumulated within online networks can create an infrastructure that helps individuals to develop their social participation despite space and time constraints.…”

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Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

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Evidence is growing that forms of incivility–e.g. aggressive and disrespectful behaviors, harassment, hate speech and outrageous claims–are spreading in the population of social networking sites’ (SNS) users. Online social networks such as Facebook allow users to regularly interact with known and unknown others, who can behave either politely or rudely. This leads individuals not only to learn and adopt successful strategies for using the site, but also to condition their own behavior on that of others. Using a mean field approach, we define anevolutionary game framework to analyse the dynamics of civil and uncivil ways of interaction in online social networks and their consequences for collective welfare. Agents can choose to interact with others–politely or rudely–in SNS, or to opt out from online social networks to protect themselves from incivility. We find that, when the initial share of the population of polite users reaches a critical level, civility becomes generalized if its payoff increases more than that of incivility with the spreading of politeness in online interactions. Otherwise, the spreading of self-protective behaviors to cope with online incivility can lead the economyto non-socially optimal stationary states. JEL Codes: C61, C73, D85, O33, Z13. PsycINFO Codes: 2240, 2750.

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Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

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“…Most users have Facebook "friends" who are actually past friends or distant acquaintances, whose in-formation would not be as readily, if at all, accessible without Facebook. Several studies, in fact, have provided evidence that Facebook allows the crystallization of weak or latent ties that might otherwise remain ephemeral (see for example Ellison et al, 2007;Antoci et al, 2015).…”

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Keeping Up with the E-Joneses: Do Online Social Networks Raise Social Comparisons?

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2016

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Online social networks such as Facebook disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases people's dissatisfaction with their income. After addressing endogeneity issues, our results suggest that SNS users have a higher probability to compare their achievements with those of others. This effect seems stronger than the one exerted by TV watching, it is particularly strong for younger people, and it affects men and women in a similar way.

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“…Antoci et al (2012a;2014) modeled the choice between two ways of social participation, respectively based on Internetmediated and face-to-face interaction, in a framework where the time available for social participation is exogenously given. Antoci et al (2015a) added to previous work by including the choice to withdraw from social participation. The evolutionary framework that is presented in this paper contributes to this body of research in several ways.…”

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Online networks, social interaction and segregation: an evolutionary approach

Antoci

Sabatini

2018

J Evol Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThere is growing evidence that face-to-face interaction is declining in many countries, exacerbating the phenomenon of social isolation. On the other hand, social interaction through online networking sites is steeply rising. To analyze these societal dynamics, we have built an evolutionary game model in which agents can choose between three strategies of social participation: 1) interaction via both online social networks and face-to-face encounters; 2) interaction by exclusive means of face-to-face encounters; 3) opting out from both forms of participation in pursuit of social isolation. We illustrate the dynamics of interaction among these three types of agent that the model predicts, in light of the empirical evidence provided by previous literature. We then assess their welfare implications. We show that when online interaction is less gratifying than offline encounters, the dynamics of agents' rational choices of interaction will lead to the extinction of the sub-population of online networks users, thereby making Facebook and similar platforms disappear in the long run. Furthermore, we show that the higher the propensity for discrimination of those who interact via online social networks and via face-to-face encounters (i.e., their preference for the interaction with agents of their same type), the greater the probability will be that they all will end up choosing social isolation in the long run, making society fall into a "social poverty trap".JEL codes: C73, D85, O33, Z13

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Online and Offline Social Participation and Social Poverty Traps: Can Social Networks Save Human Relations?

Cited by 34 publications

References 77 publications

Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

Keeping Up with the E-Joneses: Do Online Social Networks Raise Social Comparisons?

Online networks, social interaction and segregation: an evolutionary approach

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