“Interações sociais no Facebook: um estudo sobre a construção dos processos de capital social”.

Abstract

This study aimed to analyse the formation of bridging social capital within and out of the Facebook network. It is a field study, quantitative and characterised as exploratory. A sample of 220 undergraduates was taken from an university in Distrito Federal. A translated version was used of the questionnaires "General Bridging Social Capital" and "Facebook Bridging Social Capital". There were made descriptive and factorial analysis of the data using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results obtained with the translation and validation of the questionnaires to the Portuguese version, which was the first specific goal of the research, showed great resem- -blance with the results encountered in the original version, signalising that the instrument seems adequate to investi-gate the relationships that occur on the formation of bridging social capital within and out of the Facebook network. The result obtained from the comparisons, which stands as the second specific goal of the research, evidenced that, taking the sample in question, the formation of bridging social capital is not strongly affected by the use of the Fa-cebook network, bearing that there were no significant differences when comparing the formation of that type of social capital within and out of the Facebook. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]