TY  - JOUR
T1  - Housing and Community Messages on a Korean-American Online
Community: The Importance of Social Capital
AU - Kim, Sangmoon AU - Oh, Joong-Hwan 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 8
SP  - 1355
EP  - 1365
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2018.1355.1365
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.1355.1365
KW  - Housing
KW  -local communities
KW  -social capital
KW  -social resources
KW  -social support
KW  -the “MissyUSA” community
AB  - This study attempts to examine the role and importance of an ethnic online network and resulting
social capital (social resources and social support) in the research on housing and community. To that end, first
of all, social capital is identified in this study as both housing and community-related information (social
resources) channeled among members of the Korean-American women’s online community, known as
"MissyUSA" (missyusa.com). Second, this study also regards social capital as a support network among its
online members on the basis of their commonly shared identity, mother tongue (Korean), culture, birth country
(Korea), positions in the family (a housewife and/or mother) and life experiences in their new country
(immigration status). Overall, this study shows that the "MissyUSA" community functions as both an
information conduit and a support network needed to help tackle some of its online member’s housing and
community concerns regardless of their whereabouts in the United States.
ER  -