宽带互联网与社会资本
Broadband Internet and Social Capital
摘要：
我们研究了宽带互联网的扩散如何影响社会资本使用两个数据集从英国。我们的实证策略利用了这样一个事实，即宽带接入长期以来依赖于客户在20世纪30年代设计的语音电信基础设施中的地位。事实上，互联网连接的实际速度随着住宅与为其区域服务的网络特定节点的距离而迅速衰减。将语音网络拓扑结构的独特信息与个人社会资本的地理编码纵向数据相结合，我们发现宽带互联网的接入导致了离线互动和公民参与形式的显着下降。总体而言，我们的研究结果表明，宽带普及率大大排挤了社会资本的几个方面。
英文摘要：
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance of the dwelling from the specific node of the network serving its area. Merging unique information about the topology of the voice network with geocoded longitudinal data about individual social capital, we show that access to broadband Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that broadband penetration substantially crowded out several aspects of social capital.
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