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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
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McCann, Robert M.; Honeycutt, James M. – Human Communication Research, 2006
This study examines imagined interactions (IIs) among young adults in the United States, Thailand, and Japan. A comparison of means across cultures on II characteristics reveals that the Japanese participants have the widest variety of II partners, whereas the American participants are the most self-dominant in their IIs and demonstrate the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Interaction, Young Adults