Media and Social Capital

Andrea Tesei, Filipe Campante and Ruben Durante ()
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Ruben Durante: Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Annual Review of Economics, 2022, vol. 14, issue 1, 69-91

Abstract: We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Guided by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital—from social and political participation to interpersonal trust—in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media technologies hinges on their content (information versus entertainment), their effectiveness in fostering coordination, and the networks they create as well as on individual characteristics and media consumption choices.

Keywords: social capital; media; collective action; information; coordination; participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 D74 D83 D84 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-083121-050914

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