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Kobayashi, Tetsuro – Human Communication Research, 2010
This article examines the democratic potential of online communities by investigating the influence of network heterogeneity on social tolerance in an online gaming environment. Online game communities are potential sources of bridging social capital because they tend to be relatively heterogeneous. Causal analyses are conducted using structural…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, Internet, Social Capital