Entry:

Uslaner, Eric M. and Brown, M. Mitchell, “Inequality, Trust, and Civic Engagement: A Review of the Literature for the Russell Sage Foundation,” Russell Sage paper, New York, n.d.

Abstract:

Internet users are not social isolateds. They tend to have slightly wider social circles than nonusers, but their internet communications are largely with people they know. Consequently, it is hardly surprising that internet users are no more trusting of strangers (but not less trusting either) than nonusers. However, trusting people are more likely to believe that they have little to fear from the internet. The social connections that people make on the internet do not promote trust.