美国Facebook群组的地理分布
The Geography of Facebook Groups in the United States
摘要：
我们使用探索性因素分析，以调查在美国的背景下，已知的社区层面的社会资本方差模式的在线持久性。我们的分析重点关注Facebook群组，特别是那些倾向于将同一地区的用户联系起来的群组。我们调查的关系建立，本地化措施的社会资本在县级和模式的参与Facebook组在同一地区。我们确定了四个主要因素，区分Facebook组参与县。第一种是小型的、私人的群体，其中充满了友谊关系。第二种是非常本地化的小群体。第三种是非本地的、大型的、公共的群体，有更多的年龄混合。第四类是中等规模到大规模的部分地方群体。第一和第三个因素与社区水平的社会资本措施，而第二和第四不。这些因素共同和单独地预测离线社会资本措施，甚至控制了各县的各种人口统计属性。我们的分析揭示了显着的模式之间的相关性建立措施的社会资本和模式的在线互动在当地的Facebook组。据我们所知，这是第一次系统地测试离线区域社会资本与同一地区在线社区参与模式之间的关联。
英文摘要：
We use exploratory factor analysis to investigate the online persistence of known community-level patterns of social capital variance in the U.S. context. Our analysis focuses on Facebook groups, specifically those that tend to connect users in the same local area. We investigate the relationship between established, localized measures of social capital at the county level and patterns of participation in Facebook groups in the same areas. We identify four main factors that distinguish Facebook group engagement by county. The first captures small, private groups, dense with friendship connections. The second captures very local and small groups. The third captures non-local, large, public groups, with more age mixing. The fourth captures partially local groups of medium to large size. The first and third factor correlate with community level social capital measures, while the second and fourth do not. Together and individually, the factors are predictive of offline social capital measures, even controlling for various demographic attributes of the counties. Our analysis reveals striking patterns of correlation between established measures of social capital and patterns of online interaction in local Facebook groups. To our knowledge this is the first systematic test of the association between offline regional social capital and patterns of online community engagement in the same regions.
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