[Air-l] social capital and information seeking

[Anabel Quan-Haase]

Thanks to all the helpful comments and pointers to resources--
just to clarify Jeremy's remark:
I am not including information seeking as part of social capital. What I 
expect to find is that people who seek actively information (read the 
news, go to libraries, subscribe to magazines) will also be the ones who 
are more politically engaged. Putnam writes that information seeking 
(or more precisely: people's interest in politics) has declined and that this 
is an intracohort change (thus, younger people are the ones less inclined 
to be interested in these matters). So, I am thinking that the web is a new 
medium for acquiring information that could potentially serve to 
counteract this trend, as young people tend to be more net savvy.
Thanks again and greetings from Toronto,


Many Regards,
         Anabel Quan Haase
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