大学生微信使用与社会资本的实证研究

An Empirical Study of College Students' Wechat Use and Social Capital

近年来微信在我国迅速发展,越来越多的网民涌入微信平台。大学生是微信上活跃的群体,微信成为大学生积累社会资本的重要工具。通过长期的观察和访谈发现:微信平台上形成了一个以"己"为中心、强关系为主的小圈子,小圈子中个体间信任度和互惠程度较高,社交规模小且封闭;过多强关系带来信息窄化和群体同质,基于亲缘关系维系的小圈子带来社交网络的封闭性,封闭的小圈子带来结构洞,束缚了其社会资本的提升。

Wechat develops fast in our country recently years, more and more netizens move into Wechat. College students are active groups in Weehat, Wechat becomes important tool for them to accumulate social capital. Through longtime observation and interview, we find, Wechat platform formlutes a small circle of self center, mainly strong relation, where individual trust and mutually beneficial are high, social network is small and closed; too much strong relation results in information narrow-minded and group homogeneity, small circle based on affinity brings closeness of social network, which brings structure holes and restrict the advancement of social capital.