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The problem of social capital in context of the online social networks is presented in the paper. Not only the specific elements, which characterize the single person and influence the individual’s social capital like static social capital, activity component, and social position, but also the ways of stimulation of the social capital are described.

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Kazienko, P., Musiał, K. (2006). Social Capital in Online Social Networks. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893004_54

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