Campante, Filipe and Durante, Ruben and Tesei, Andrea (2022) Media and social capital. Annual Review of Economics, 14. pp. 69-91. ISSN 1941-1383
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We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Guided by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capitalfrom social and political participation to interpersonal trustin its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media technologies hinges on their content (information versus entertainment), their effectiveness in fostering coordination, and the networks they create as well as on individual characteristics and media consumption choices.