Barry Wellman

Chapter 57: Networked Scholarship (2009)

Barry Wellman, Emmanuel Koku, Jeremy Hunsinger

Community has traditionally been anchored in local, neighborhood interactions and enshrined as a code word for social cohesion. “Community ” usually connotes people socially and cognitively...

16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in (2009)

Kakuko Miyata, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman

Japanese often use keitai (Internet-enabled mobile phones) to communicate with their close friends and family. The small size and portability of the keitai makes it possible to send messages at...

The Wired – and Wireless – Japanese: (2009)

Webphones Pcs, Kakuko Miyata, Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase

Once upon a time, not so long ago, people were rooted to their homes and workplaces by computers that were wired in place by electric and Internet cables. In those days, the magic book was called...

El hogar en red (2008)

Kennedy, Tracy L. M., Wellman, Barry

Proponemos que los individuos, en lugar de las solidaridades familiares, se han convertido en la principal unidad de conectividad en el hogar. Muchos hogares no funcionan como grupos tradicionales...

Abstract (2008)

Keith N. Hampton, Barry Wellman

debt is to the residents of Netville who have given their time and patience, allowing us into their homes and answering many

Visualizing Personal Networks: (2008)

Bernie Hogan, Juan Antonio Carrasco, Barry Wellman, Bernie Hogan, Juan Antonio Carrasco, Barry Wellman

We describe an interview-based data-collection procedure for social network analysis designed to aid gathering information about the people known by a respondent and reduce problems with data...

VIEWPOINT Computer Networks As Social Networks (2008)

Erbilt Law Rev, Barry Wellman

ing of ESTs that substantially alleviated, even if they did not totally resolve, this threat to science from overbroad patent rights.

The Social Network Basis of Interpersonal Resources for Coping with Stress (2008)

Barry Wellman, Milena Gulia

When North Americans need help, where do they turn? They could buy many kinds of help in the marketplace, but the cost might be too expensive and not be sensitively suited to their needs. They could...

Chapter 6 From the Computerization Movement to Computerization: A Case Study of a Community of Practice (2008)

Anabel Quan-haase, Barry Wellman, Edited Ken Kraemer, Margaret Elliott

We find mixed results when assessing how the expectations of the computerization movement fit with our case study of a high-tech organization that is heavily computerized. In the organization,...

Heckscher & Alder / The Corporation as a Collaborative Community 07-Heckscher-chap07 Page Proof page 281 29.8.2005 1:06pm 7 Hyperconnected Net Work Computer-Mediated Community in a High-Tech Organization (2008)

Anabel Quan-haase, Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan-haase, Barry Wellman

Computer networks and work networks The turn to networked collaborative work community Computer-mediated communication (CMC) permeates organizations. The internet and internal intranets link...

El hogar en red. (2008)

Kennedy, Tracy L. M., Wellman, Barry

We argue that individuals, rather than family solidarities, have become the primary unit of household connectivity. Many households do not operate as traditional densely-knit groups but as more...

El hogar en red (2008)

Kennedy, Tracy L. M., Wellman, Barry

We argue that individuals, rather than family solidarities, have become the primary unit of household connectivity. Many households do not operate as traditional denselyknit groups but as more...

Examining the Internet in Everyday Life 1 (2007)

Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan-haase, Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen

As the Internet evolves, its users and uses grow and diversify globally. Internet use dramatically increased worldwide between 1995 and 2000.Today, approximately 55 percent of the North American...

Is There A Place in Cyberplace? 1 Is there a Place in Cyberspace: The Uses and Users of Public Internet Terminals (2007)

Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen, Barry Wellman, Monica Prijatelj

The Internet presents a paradox of place. On the one hand, it is the principal means by which the “global village ” communicates – to use Marshall McLuhan’s evocative phrase (1962). Its...

1 How does the Internet Affect Social Capital 1 (2007)

Anabel Quan-haase, Barry Wellman

Two trends intersect in this article. One is the dramatic increase in Internet use since the 1990s, affecting the way people live, work, and play in the developed world. Approximately 60 percent of...

Sousveillance: New Methodologies (2007)

Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, Barry Wellman

This paper describes using wearable computing devices to perform "sousveillance" (inverse surveillance) as a counter to organizational surveillance. A variety of wearable computing...

Does Social Capital Pay Off More Within or Between Ethnic Groups? Analyzing Job Searches in Five Toronto Ethnic Groups 1 (2007)

Emi Ooka, Barry Wellman

In a multicultural society such as Canada, it is important to study the extent to which members of immigrant or minority groups perpetuate their disadvantaged status or overcome barriers to having...

From Metaphor to Toolkit The Social Network Approach (2007)

Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen, Dong Weizhen, Edited Thomas Gold, Douglas Guthrie, David Wank

The end of every journey is the beginning of the next adventure. As my tired eyes rest from reading the chapters in this book and my exhilarated soul reflects, I think back on the wonders I have...

Forthcoming in Designing Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning (2007)

Emmanuel F. Koku, Barry Wellman, Sasha Barab, Rob Kling, Excellence Ronald Baecker, Gale Moore, ...

Klement and Nadia Bello coded much of the data. The Centre for Urban and Community Studies has been a supportive home for our research. Most of all, we deeply appreciate the time and interest that...

Acknowledgments (2007)

Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman, Keith Hampton, Eszter Hargittai, ...

As the Internet evolves, its users and uses grow and diversify globally. Data from a National Geographic web survey enables us to compare how people in different parts of the world use the Internet....

Forthcoming in the American Behavioral Scientist, volume 43 (2007)

Emmanuel Koku, Nancy Nazer, Barry Wellman

Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by lessening the effects of distance and affecting how people interact? To examine this question, we study scholarly and interpersonal...

THE NETWORKED NATURE OF COMMUNITY ONLINE AND OFFLINE 1 (2007)

Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen

Communities started changing from groups to networks well before the advent of the Internet. Initially, people believed that industrialization and bureaucratization would dissolve community groups...

A Networked World Living Networked On and Off Line* (2007)

Barry Wellman, Keith Hampton

We are living in a paradigm shift, not only in the way we perceive society, but even more in the way in which people and institutions are connected. It is the shift from living in “little boxes ”...

Current Sociology, forthcoming (2007)

Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman

We analyze the transfer of biological, computer and marketing viruses. Despite differences between these three types of viruses, network structure affects their spread in similar ways. We distinguish...

Abstract (2007)

Keith N. Hampton, Barry Wellman

At the University of Toronto: Dean Behrens, Nadia Bello,

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (2007)

Barry Wellman, Wellman Associates

“Community ” is a multi-meaning word that in Western societies has traditionally been anchored in neighbourhood interactions and enshrined as a code work for cohesion. There have been fears in...

BIOGRAPHY (2007)

Barry Wellman, Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Sara Kiesler

substantive and editorial advice in the preparation of this chapter. I have also benefited from the stimulating ongoing comments of other members of our research group studying computer supported

Observing and Surveying a Wired Suburb (2007)

Ra Marin, Antonia Maughn, Dolly Mehra, William Michelson, Nancy Nazer, Christien Perez, ...

Media Design Institute. We thank a host of people for their comments, assistance, and support. At the University of

Network Analysts Need Networks to Communicate: A Personal Account 2 (2007)

Barry Wellman, Some Time Ago

write a twentieth-anniversary account of the founding of INSNA. He wanted it from my perspective as the guy who started it. However, current diversions kept delaying reminiscing about the past. I...

Searching for Jobs (2007)

Emi Ooka, Barry Wellman, Edited Eric Fong

We have learned in the past twenty-five years that social networks are important and often successful means of searching for jobs. They provide network capital, an important form of social capital,...

Did distance matter before the Internet? Interpersonal contact and support (2007)

Diana Mok, Barry Wellman, Ranu Basu

Well before the coming of the Internet, strong ties with friends and relatives stretched well beyond the neighborhood: the traditional domain of community. Phones, cars and planes allowed people to...

Tit-for-Tat and All That: Reciprocity in East York in the 1970s (2006)

Barry Wellman, Rochelle R. Côté, Gabriele Plickert

Reciprocity – doing for others if they have done for you – is a key way people mobilize resources to deal with daily life and seize opportunities. In principle, reciprocity (the Golden Rule) is a...

Does citation reflect social structure? Longitudinal evidence from the ‘Globenet’ interdisciplinary research group (2004)

Howard D. White, Barry Wellman, Nancy Nazer

Many authors have posited a social component in citation, the consensus being that the citers and citees often have interpersonal as well as intellectual ties. Evidence for this belief has been...

The mobile-izing Japanese: connecting to the internet by PC And webphone in Yamanashi (2004)

Kakuko Miyata, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman

Until recently most accounts of the Internet had been universalistic. They assumed that the users and uses of the Internet would be the same around the world. Where they differed would be because...

The three ages of internet studies: ten, five and zero years ago (2004)

Barry Wellman

Pre-History, Ten Years Ago: Permit me as a tribal elder to exceed my bounds and think back to the state of scholarship in our field ten years ago. Although Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz had...

Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet (2004)

Jeffrey Boase And, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman, Edited Dan Perlman

This paper has benefited from the advice of Vicky Boase, Phuoc Tran, Rochelle Cot, Julie Wang, and Irina Shklovshi. We thank our friends at the University of Toronto's NetLab, Department of...

The Transcendent Internet The Descent of the Internet (2004)

Barry Wellman, Bernie Hogan

The Internet has descended from an awesome part of the ethereal firmament to become immanent in everyday life. As it descended, the Internet developed, mutated, and proliferated, providing a...

Does citation reflect social structure? Longitudinal evidence from the ‘Globenet’ interdisciplinary research group (2004)

Howard D. White, Barry Wellman, Nancy Nazer

Many authors have posited a social component in citation, the consensus being that the citers and citees often have interpersonal as well as intellectual ties. Evidence for this belief has been...

The Mobile-izing Japanese The Mobile-izing Japanese: Connecting to the Internet by Webphone and PC in Yamanashi (2004)

Kakuko Miyata, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman

Robert Ramsay, Irina Shklovski, and Rachel Yould for their advice about our research, and Vicky Boase, Monica Prijatelj, Uyen Quach, and Phuoc Tran for their assistance with this paper.

Local Virtuality in a High-Tech Networked Organization (2004)

Anabel Quan-haase, Barry Wellman

What is the nature of networked organizations? The focus of discussions of the networked organization has been on the boundary spanning nature of these new organizational structures. What has...

Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb (2003)

Keith Hampton, Barry Wellman

What is the Internet doing to local community? Analysts have debated about whether the Internet is weakening community by leading people away from meaningful in-person contact; transforming community...

Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments (2003)

Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, Barry Wellman

This paper describes using wearable computing devices to perform "sousveillance " (inverse surveillance) as a counter to organizational surveillance. A variety of wearable computing...

Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb (2003)

Keith Hampton, Barry Wellman

What is the Internet doing to local community? Analysts have debated about whether the Internet is weakening community by leading people away from meaningful in-person contact; transforming community...

Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments (2003)

Steve Mann, Jason Nolan, Barry Wellman

This paper describes using wearable computing devices to perform "sousveillance " (inverse surveillance) as a counter to organizational surveillance. A variety of wearable computing...

Societat xarxa a Catalunya (2002)

Castells, Manuel, Tubella, Imma, Sánchez-Juárez, Anna, Sancho Vinuesa, Teresa, Díaz De Isla, María Isabel, Wellman, Barry

Projecte de recerca del PIC (Projecte Internet Catalunya). Data de començament de la recerca: Octubre de 2001. Enquesta feta el febrer-maig de 2002. Data de publicació: Juliol de 2002

The networked nature of community: Online and offline (2002)

Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen

(Data Available) Communities started changing from groups to networks well before the advent of the Internet. Initially, people believed that industrialization and bureaucratization would dissolve...

Designing the Internet for a networked society: Little boxes, glocalization, and networked individualism (2002)

Barry Wellman

[Note, this version has some edits vis-a-vis version (cacm2a-all) sent to CACM 3 Sept]

Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism (2002)

Barry Wellman

Abstract. Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed from...

Network ethnography and the hypermedia organization: new media, new organizations, new methods (2002)

Barry Wellman

Social scientists are increasingly interested in new organizational forms – labeled epistemic communities, knowledge networks, or communities of practice depending on the discipline. These new...

The networked nature of community: Online and offline (2002)

Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen

(Data Available) Communities started changing from groups to networks well before the advent of the Internet. Initially, people believed that industrialization and bureaucratization would dissolve...

Correlates of the digital divide: Individual, household and spatial variation (2001)

Eric Fong, Barry Wellman, Melissa Kew, Rima Wilkes

What is the Digital Divide? The “digital divide, ” a concept propounded by political advocates such as the African-American leader Jessie Jackson refers to systematic differences in computer and...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (2001)

Barry Wellman, Wellman Associates

“Community ” is a multi-meaning word that in Western societies has traditionally been anchored in neighbourhood interactions and enshrined as a code work for cohesion. There have been fears in...

Changing Connectivity: A Future History of Y2.03K (2000)

Wellman, Barry

Why, given all the problems associated with part-time employment in Britain, do women work part-time at all? Does the answer to this question lie in gender-based explanations which focus on women's...

Forthcoming in the American Behavioral Scientist, volume 43 (2000)

Emmanuel Koku, Nancy Nazer, Barry Wellman

Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by lessening the effects of distance and affecting how people interact? To examine this question, we study scholarly and interpersonal...

Examining community in the digital neighborhood: Early results from Canada’s wired suburb (2000)

Keith N. Hampton, Keith N. Hampton, Barry Wellman, Barry Wellman

Abstract. Can supportive, sociable and meaningful relations be maintained online? Will life online replace, complement, or supplant life in the flesh? Netville is a residential development located in...

Netwoks in the global village : life in contemporary communities (1999)

Wellman, Barry (ed.)

Obra en que se examina cómo se relaciona la gente, en diversos puntos del mundo, a través de sus comunidades personales: redes de amigos, vecinos, parientes y compañeros de trabajo, y cómo a...

Netwoks in the global village : life in contemporary communities / Ed. de B. Wellman. (1999)

Wellman, Barry (ed.)

Obra en que se examina cómo se relaciona la gente, en diversos puntos del mundo, a través de sus comunidades personales: redes de amigos, vecinos, parientes y compañeros de trabajo, y cómo a...

Living networked in a wired world (1999)

Barry Wellman

[includes concluding point 3, not in published paper] The world is composed of networks – not groups – both computer networks and social networks. When computer networks connect people and...

Living networked in a wired world (1999)

Or Keith Hampton, Barry Wellman, Keith Hampton

We are living in a paradigm shift, not only in the way we perceive society, but even more in the way in which people and institutions are connected. It is the shift from living in little boxes 1 to...

Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities (1999)

Barry Wellman, Milena Gulia

Wellman in Toronto by Steven Friedman, a DLmember and friend of Wellman's who lives in Israel. Yet the interaction is not solely a product of virtual community. The relationship between Wellman...

From Little Boxes To Loosely Bounded Networks: The Privatization and Domestication of Community (1999)

Barry Wellman

It became clear to me growing up in New York City in the 1950s that gangs as corporate entities did not exist. It was impossible to draw up a membership list. It was as futile to try to learn the...

Acknowledgements (1998)

Barry Wellman

use the computer for both quantitative and qualitative analysis at Harvard’s Department of Social Relations in the mid-1960s, to Bev Meyrowitz/Bev Wellman who spent many hours at Harvard and...

For a social network analysis of computer networks: A sociological perspective on collaborative work and virtual community (1996)

Barry Wellman

When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Social network analysis provides a useful approach to moving beyond the concept of “group ” in studying...

I was a Teenage Network Analyst: The Route from The Bronx to the Information Highway (1994)

Barry Wellman

A totally true account of how I discovered network analysis as a pre-postmodern Bronx teenager and what it has taught me about personal communities, social support, and computer-supported networks of...

Social impacts of electronic mail in organizations: a review of the research literature (1993)

Garton, Laura E., Wellman, Barry

E-mail is a communication network operating on a computer network that supports social networks. It combines iocatiornl flexibility, rapid transmission to muitiple others across time and spa.ce, and...

Social impacts of electronic mail in organizations: a review of the research literature (1993)

Garton, Laura E., Wellman, Barry

E-mail is a communication network operating on a computer network that supports social networks. It combines iocatiornl flexibility, rapid transmission to muitiple others across time and spa.ce, and...

I I I (1993)

Laura E. Garton, Barry Wellman, Centre For Urban, Community Shrdies, The Ontario Telepresence

E-mail is a communication network operating on a computer network that supports social networks. It combines iocatiornl flexibility, rapid transmission to muitiple others across time and spa.ce, and...

Designing the Internet for a networked society (0000)

Wellman, Barry

The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift in the ways people, organizations and institutions are connected to one another. The social system at work and home and elsewhere have moved...

Designing the Internet for a networked society

Wellman, Barry

The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift in the ways people, organizations and institutions are connected to one another. The social system at work and home and elsewhere have moved...

Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking

Barry Wellman

Computer networks are social networks. Social affordances of computer-supported social networks - broader bandwidth, wireless portability, globalized connectivity, personalization - are fostering the...

Changing Connectivity: A Future History of Y2.03K

Barry Wellman

Why, given all the problems associated with part-time employment in Britain, do women work part-time at all? Does the answer to this question lie in gender-based explanations which focus on women\'s...

Collecting social network data to study social activity-travel behavior: an egocentric approach

Juan Antonio Carrasco, Bernie Hogan, Barry Wellman, Eric J Miller

This paper presents a data collection effort designed to incorporate the social dimension in social activity-travel behavior by explicitly studying the link between individuals’ social activities...

AGENCY IN SOCIAL ACTIVITY INTERACTIONS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TIME AND SPACE

JUAN ANTONIO CARRASCO, BERNIE HOGAN, BARRY WELLMAN, ERIC J. MILLER

This paper explores the relationship between travel behaviour, ICT use and social networks. Specifically, we outline a theory of social action that can inform how ICTs relates to social activity...