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Name Instructor Task Date The Internet and social Capital Social capital is a notion used in sociology and refers to the connections between the community networks that serve the society.... Previous indications of internet usage show that the spread of its use is on the rise in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America.... Individuals are able to accumulate communal capital through the use of their abilities which range from charisma, respect for others and leadership skills....
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Essay
For this reason, the internet has left the youths with no social skills.... Chat rooms and social media have become the areas of interest in exploring the risks exposed to children.... This paper delineates the dangers that internet poses to children both in social and academic activities.... Reports indicate that children have opted to turn to the internet where their social life cannot be known by their parents.... This has made children succeed in safeguarding and protecting their social life from scrutiny by the parents and adults (Staples, 2008, p....
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By spending more time online, adolescents become less active in their social life.... … The author states that overuse of the Internet can negatively affect an adolescent's social, psychological and physical well-being.... The popularity of social networking sites involves participation of millions of Internet users all over the world, mostly younger people.... However, studies also prove that the use of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace does not always have adverse effects on adolescents since they use these sites mainly for the purpose of intensifying real life relationships, who are geographically separated, by facilities like instant messaging (Reich et al....
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Research Paper
The SNS has had wide dispersal in terms of usage and is utilized for various purposes like social causes, business and political communication and so on.... According to van Djik, there are various types of access for the digital media, like motivational access, material or physical, skills access and usage access.... By the characteristic of virtuality, a social networking site (SNS) like Facebook is essentially a computer-based platform for converting text and image into binary codes that may be stored on one computer and distributed across the Internet and picked up by other computers....
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Purpose of this study, Social Psychology - Loneliness, was to find out association between internet usage and loneliness.... hellip; As the report declares pearson product-moment correlation coefficients showed significant positive correlation between internet usage and social, family and romantic loneliness.... The dilemma of internet usage and loneliness emerged with the rapid increase of Internet users via social networks.... nbsp; Researches on chronic loneliness have revealed lonely individuals are lacking social skills required to create and maintain interpersonal relationships....
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In this research “Determinants of internet Use in Iraq” the author seeks to answer some key issues.... How are they able to mandate the existence of internet in their community and how are they able to control its effects to the people of their nation?... hellip; The author states that the internet has been considered as a revolutionary concept and a huge matter of development in the current society of human civilization.... internet became the main sharing tool around the whole world....
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Research Paper
They have greatly impacted the children of today's society, benefits obtained by children include learning and development of skills.... These websites aid children in connecting with their community as these websites allow children to raise money for charitable purposes, helps them promote their talents such as artistic talents, exchange ideas through online blogs and games, helps them learn key components of life such as tolerance and respect as they connect with a diverse number of people and enhancement and development of the communicational and interpersonal skills of the children (Boyd119)....
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Report
This literature review "Do Duration and Motivations of Internet Use Improve social skills" presents the bad effects of internet usage on social skills.... It will also show that younger people who use the Internet for more than socialization tend to have poor social skills too.... The exact effects of using the Internet on social skills continue to be unclear because of mixed empirical evidence.... Though people use the Internet to communicate with family, friends, and peers at work, even superiors, some researchers showed that Internet use has led to poor social skills and adjustment (Engelberg & Sjöberg 2004), as well as bullying behaviors (Schoffstall & Cohen, 2011), anxiety, and loneliness (Kim, LaRose, & Peng, 2009), while others learned that using the Internet for socialization can develop better social skills (Campbell et al....
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Literature review