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The Effects of Media Forms on Social Capital across European Welfare Regimes: A Multiple Group Structural Equation Modelling Approach (MG-SEM) Boris Kragelj, B. Comm. Léan McMahon, B.Soc.Sc., M.Soc.Sc. Faculty of Social Sciences School of Sociology University of Ljubljana, Slovenia University College Dublin, Ireland Geoffrey Hammond, B.Sc. Department of Psychiatry University of Cambridge, England Background Structure of presentation BACKGROUND 1. THEORY and LITERATURE Media effects / Social capital Macro-structural approaches: Regime types and social capital 2. RESEARCH QUESTION and HYPOTHESES 3. DATA and VARIABLES 4. METHOD and ANALYSIS 5. RESULTS 6. CONCLUSIONS and DISCUSSION THEORY and LITERATURE Media effects New media displaces consumption of traditional media forms TV (when introduced) displaced radio listening and newspaper reading (Coffin 1955; Bogart 1956) Is the Internet displacing TV? (Dimaggio et al 2001) Social capital definitions What do we understand by ‘social capital’? Contentious, multi-faceted and slippery term… OECD definition: “Social capital is networks together with shared norms, values and understandings that facilitate cooperation within or among groups” (Cote Healy 2001) “The resources of information, norms and social relations embedded in communities that enable people to coordinate collective action and to achieve common goals” (Shah, McLeod et al 2001: 465) Putnam (1993) stresses Durkheimian sense of socialisation of individuals into shared norms and cooperative societal action… social networks and norms of reciprocity Operationalisation of social capital Our operationalisation of social capital uses 3 individual-level indicators: Social participation (Dekker Uslaner 2001; Putnam 1996; 2000) Civic engagement [x2] (Brehm Rahn 1997, 1990; Uslaner 1998) Generalised trust [x2] (Uslaner 1999; Anheier Kendall 2002; Sullivan Transue 1999) Media effects and social capital Television Social/technological changes destroy co