TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring social capital in the domain of Community Wireless Networks
AU - Abdelaal, Abdelnasser M.
AU - Ali, Hesham H.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The literature shows that Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) have a broad range of social and economic benefits. One particular account of studies shows that CWSNs create social capital. However, these studies lack empirical evidence and have conceptual and methodological limitations. We use the social network analysis approach to measure social capital created in the domain of CWNs, focusing on its network dimension. We used a survey to collect data about participants of 26 CWNs and treated them as social capital. We modeled this intangible asset as a bipartite graph composed of two sets of nodes: a set of groups of participants and a set of CWNs. The edges between these two sets represent the size of these groups. The model is constructively used to measure and analyze the social capital created in the domain of CWNs. Some modeling, conceptual and analytical details are provided to guide future endeavors.
AB - The literature shows that Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) have a broad range of social and economic benefits. One particular account of studies shows that CWSNs create social capital. However, these studies lack empirical evidence and have conceptual and methodological limitations. We use the social network analysis approach to measure social capital created in the domain of CWNs, focusing on its network dimension. We used a survey to collect data about participants of 26 CWNs and treated them as social capital. We modeled this intangible asset as a bipartite graph composed of two sets of nodes: a set of groups of participants and a set of CWNs. The edges between these two sets represent the size of these groups. The model is constructively used to measure and analyze the social capital created in the domain of CWNs. Some modeling, conceptual and analytical details are provided to guide future endeavors.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.426
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.426
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857985826
SN - 9780769545257
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 4850
EP - 4859
BT - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-45
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2012
Y2 - 4 January 2012 through 7 January 2012
ER -