Operationalization of Social Capital in Small Communities – The Impact of Social Media

Operalization of Social Capital in Small Communities – the Impact of Social Media, by Elisabeth Lauridsen Lolle, analyzes regional development in peripheral areas. The contribution includes the examining of the social capital and particularly the influence of social media on the social capital in 14 Danish villages. Lauridsen Lolle (2013) argues in this in depth research that when examining the social capital of communities, the most valuable parameter is to look at associations and in particular the character of these associations as these are the most typical proxy for networks. The study also shows that we might have to extend the notion of network to include that of social media as this type of network gets increasingly more important.