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Nicole Ellison

A large literature on social media use and social capital exists.1.

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A large literature on social media use and social capital exists.

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“A large literature originating in Nicole Ellison, Cliff Lampe, Charles Steinfield, and colleagues' foundational work on Facebook and bridging/bonding social capital (e.g., Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe 2007, *Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication*, "The benefits of Facebook 'friends': Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites");”
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"The integration itself is the paper's most distinctive intellectual contribution"
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"The platform-death-as-social-capital-destruction claim is an extension of existing work on platform-mediated social capital."
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