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CAREER AND COORDINATES............................................................................................................. 2 EDUCATION................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. CAREER ........................................................................................................................................... 2 DEMOGRAPHICS .............................................................................................................................. 2 SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 3 BARRY WELLMAN ............................................................................................................................ 6 HONORS........................................................................................................................................ 13 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES ................................................................................ 16 EDITORIAL ..................................................................................................................................... 17 RESEARCH ..................................................................................................................................... 19 RESEARCH AWARDS ....................................................................................................................... 24 PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................... 28 REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES ........................................................................................................ 28 REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS...................................................................................................... 35 BOOKS AND SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES ............................................................................................ 42 NON-REFEREED ARTICLES .............................................................................................................. 43 REPORTS ....................................................................................................................................... 48 NON-REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS ................................................................................................... 49 INFORMAL ARTICLES ...................................................................................................................... 52 BOOK REVIEWS OF......................................................................................................................... 57 PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS / CONFERENCES ........................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. KEYNOTE CONFERENCE ADDRESSES ............................................................................................... 69 INFORMAL TALKS........................................................................................................................... 78 TEACHING AND MENTORING ......................................................................................................... 80 DISSERTATIONS, POST-DOCS AND VISITORS .................................................................................... 81 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AFFAIRS................................................................................................. 84 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ....................................................................................................... 85 CONFERENCE AND SESSION (CO-) ORGANIZING .............................................................................. 86 REFEREEING .................................................................................................................................. 88 CONSULTING ................................................................................................................................. 89 MEDIA........................................................................................................................................... 91 Barry Wellman July 16, 2015

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  • CAREER AND COORDINATES ............................................................................................................. 2 EDUCATION ................................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. CAREER ........................................................................................................................................... 2 DEMOGRAPHICS .............................................................................................................................. 2 SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................................... 3 BARRY WELLMAN ............................................................................................................................ 6 HONORS........................................................................................................................................ 13 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES ................................................................................ 16 EDITORIAL ..................................................................................................................................... 17 RESEARCH ..................................................................................................................................... 19 RESEARCH AWARDS ....................................................................................................................... 24 PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................... 28 REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES ........................................................................................................ 28 REFEREED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS ...................................................................................................... 35 BOOKS AND SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES ............................................................................................ 42 NON-REFEREED ARTICLES .............................................................................................................. 43 REPORTS ....................................................................................................................................... 48 NON-REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS ................................................................................................... 49 INFORMAL ARTICLES ...................................................................................................................... 52 BOOK REVIEWS OF......................................................................................................................... 57 PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS / CONFERENCES ........................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. KEYNOTE CONFERENCE ADDRESSES ............................................................................................... 69 INFORMAL TALKS........................................................................................................................... 78 TEACHING AND MENTORING ......................................................................................................... 80 DISSERTATIONS, POST-DOCS AND VISITORS .................................................................................... 81 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AFFAIRS ................................................................................................. 84 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ....................................................................................................... 85 CONFERENCE AND SESSION (CO-) ORGANIZING .............................................................................. 86 REFEREEING .................................................................................................................................. 88 CONSULTING ................................................................................................................................. 89 MEDIA........................................................................................................................................... 91

    Barry Wellman

    July 16, 2015

  • CAREER AND COORDINATES Co-Director, NetLab Network

    Professor of Sociology (Retired), University of Toronto

    Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

    International Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis

    Senior Research Fellow, Pew Internet and Society Project

    Executive Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute [KMDI], University of Toronto

    North American Editor, Information, Communication and Society Consulting Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005-2016

    Senior Fellow, Center for the Digital Future, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, 2006-.

    Fellow, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Toronto, 2008-

    Fellow, Centre for Public Administration and Policies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon, 2009-

    Fellow, Social Technology Lab, Arizona State University, 2015-

    Faculty Associate, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute, 2013-2015

    COORDINATES

    email: [email protected] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Twitter: @barrywellman

    SCHOOLING P.S.33, Bronx; JHS 79, Bronx Bronx High School of Science, 1959 B.A., Lafayette College, 1963, Honors History; magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa M.A. 1965; Harvard University, Sociology (Department of Social Relations) Ph.D. 1969; Harvard University, Sociology (Department of Social Relations)

    CAREER

    NetLab Network, 1998- Lim Chong Yah Professor of Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore, 2015 Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, 2013-2014 S.D. Clark Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 2006 - 2013 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1980 2013 Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1970-2013

    Director, Structural Analysis Programme, University of Toronto, 1979 - 1982 Associate Director, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1980-1984 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1972 - 1980 (tenured) Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1970 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1967 - 1972 Research Sociologist, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, 1967 1969 Resident Fellow, Center for the Digital Future, Annenberg School, University of Southern California, 2006 Fellow, IBM Institute of Knowledge Management, 2001 - 2002 Visiting Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, 1999 Fellow, Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, 1999 Visiting Professor, Institute for Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley, 1985 Fellow, Netherlands Inst. for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1978-1979 Visiting Professor, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, 1974-1975

    DEMOGRAPHICS

    Born: 1942 Married Beverly Wellman 1965 Canadian and American

  • SUMMARY Barry Wellman studies networks: community, communication, computer, and social. His research examines social support, virtual community, the virtual workplace, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. Based at the University of Toronto, he co-directs the NetLab Network and is a member of the Knowledge Media Design Institute.

    Prof. Wellman is the co-author of the prize-winning Networked: The New Social Operating System (with Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project), published by MIT Press in Spring 2012. The book analyzes the social nature of networked individualism, growing out of the Social Network Revolution, the Internet Revolution, and the Mobile Revolution. He has published 313 articleswhich have been co-authored with 111 scholars (including 79 current and former students)and he is the (co-)editor of 24 books and book-like special journal issues.

    Prof. Wellman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the Chair-Emeritus of both the Community and Information Technologies section and the Community and Urban Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. He is a Fellow of IBM Toronto's Centre for Advanced Studies. Prof. Wellman has been a Fellow of IBMs Institute of Knowledge Management, a consultant with Mitel Networks, a member of Advanced Micro Devices' Global Consumer Advisory Board, and Intels People and Practices research unit. He has been a keynoter at conferences ranging from computer science to theology, and a committee member of the Social Science Research Councils (and Ford Foundations) Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security. At the University of Toronto, he has been the S.D. Clark Professor at the Department of Sociology and a member of the Cities Centre.

    Social Network Analysis: Prof. Wellman's intellectual approach is social network analysis. He founded the professional society in the field: the International Network for Social Network Analysis. His co-edited Social Structures: A Network Approach has been named by the International Sociological Association as one of the Books of the Century (Cambridge University Press, 1988; updated ed., JAI Press, 1997; reprinted, Canadian Scholars Press International, 2002). Prof. Wellman has published articles about the theory, methods and substance of social network analysis. He coined the terms network city in 1973, network of networks in 1983, networked individualism in 2000, and (with Keith Hampton) pioneered the use of the term glocalization in discussing computer mediated communication networks.

    Research Focus: Prof. Wellman is currently studying with the NetLab team:

    The Connected Lives and Networked Individuals studiesthe third and fourth studies of the Toronto borough of East York: the interplay between social networks, community and Internet use.

    The paradigm shift from group-centered relations to networked individualism.

    The study of how a loosely-coupled networked scholarly organization discover, access and manage knowledge, on and offline.

    Sociologically-informed design principles for ad hoc networking systems in which people work and find community with shifting sets of others.

    The glocalization (globalization + localization) that comes with wired living via advanced connections to the Internet and other online services.

    International comparisons of information and communication technologies, with special emphases on Japan, United States and Canada.

    Computer Networks as Social Networks: Much of Prof. Wellmans work analyzes computer networks as social networks. In the 1990s, Prof. Wellman worked with computer scientists and information scientists at the University of Toronto and the private sector to design, development and evaluate the Cavecat/Telepresence system for computer supported cooperative work. This combination of personal video and collaborative computing enabled people to communicate, work and commune over large distances. With Caroline Haythornthwaite, he edited a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, The Internet in Everyday Life (Nov, 2001), which was substantially revised and expanded into a book of the same name (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). He also was the Technology and Community editor of the Encyclopedia of Community (Sage, 2003).

    Communities as Social Networks: Since the late 1960s, Prof. Wellman has developed the study of communities as social networks: demonstrating that communities are no longer limited to neighborhoods. He has been studying the ways in which people use these ties to gain resources, and the implications of these networks for large-scale social organization. His current research in this area focuses on multilevel analyses of support, reciprocity in personal community networks in an

  • era of networked individualism. In 1999, he published Networks in the Global Village (Westview Press), an edited volume of original analyses of personal communities around the world, each written by a resident of the country being discussed.

    Interdisciplinary Links: Much of Prof. Wellmans research has been collaborative and interdisciplinary, including work with archivists, communication scientists, computer scientists, educators, geographers, historians, information scientists, journalists, lawyers, librarians, psychiatrists, psychologists, statisticians, and theologians.

    International Links: Prof. Wellman founded and headed the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 1976. He collaborated on a study of the Internet in Catalonia (with Manuel Castells and Isabel Diaz de Isla) and with Kakuko Miyata, Kenichi Ikeda and Jeffrey Boase in Japan.

    Prof. Wellmans work has been translated into Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Public Administration and Policies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon, and is a member of the International Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Institute for Empirical Social Science, Xian Jiaotong University, China. He has lectured and held workshops about social network analysis in Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the USA. His work has been linked to research and development at AMD, Bell Canada, IBM, Mitel Networks and Nokia. He has keynoted in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

    Editorial Posts: Prof. Wellman founded the informal social network analytic journal, Connections, in 1977 and edited/published it for twelve years. He was the principal founder of a new sociology journal, City and Community, whose first issue appeared in March 2002, and served as an Associate Editor through 2005. He has been the Book Essay co-editor of Social Networks, and is the North American editor of Information, Communication and Society. He serves on a number of other editorial boards.

    Prof. Wellman has published in a wide array of books and journals, including: American Behavioral Scientist, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Bulletin de Methode Sociologique, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Communication Yearbook, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Cultural Anthropology Methods Bulletin, Current Sociology, the Encyclopedia of Psychology, the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, History of the Family, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Marriage and Family Review, Roundel [BMW Car Club], Science, Social Networks, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Theory, Sociological Research Online.

    Teaching: Prof. Wellman teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Urban Sociology, Community, Social Network Analysis, Information and Communication Technology and Society, and Research Methods. Prof. Wellman received the International Network for Personal Relationships Mentoring Award in 1998. He was the second place winner of the International Society for Personal Relationships' Outstanding Teaching Award (1996). At the University of Toronto, the Department of Sociology has named its undergraduate research prize after him (the Barry Wellman Prize).

    Honors: Prof. Wellman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. In 2006, the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto awarded the S.D. Clark Endowed Chair to him. The Department had previously honoured him (in April 2001) with the Barryfest conference: Social Structure in a Changing World Presentations in Honour of Barry Wellman.

    Prof. Wellman received the Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award in 2014. In 2008, the International Communication Association gave him its initial Open Field Award for work that has been very influential in med ia and communication researchfrom outside the discipline of communications.He received an Outstanding Career Contribution Award by the Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association (2001). He has received Outstanding Career Contribution Awards from two sections of the American Sociological Association: Communication and Information Technologies (2004) and Community and Urban Sociology (2006). In May 2008, his networked individualism work was included in the national English-language entrance exam for Chinese universities.

    Prof. Wellmans The Community Question article (American Journal of Sociology, 1979) about networked communities was selected as one of the seven most significant English-Canadian sociology articles of the 20th century by the Canadian Journal of Sociology (Summer 2001). His co-edited Social Structures book was cited as one of the hundred most significant sociological books by the International Sociology Association. It presents a score of original articles exemplifying social network analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1988; JAI-Elsevier, 1997). Four of his articles, representing

  • the range of his work, have been anthologized in Social Networks: Critical Concepts in Sociology, edited by John Scott: "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor ...", "The Community Question," "The Place of Kinfolk ..." and "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone."

    Prof. Wellman has been a Fellow of the Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Halbert Foundation (Hebrew University). In 1999 he was a Visiting Professor at the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley. He was the Distinguished Keynote Speaker of the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 1994, that societys highest honor. He was second prize winner of the International Society for Personal Relationships' Outstanding Teaching Award (1996), a finalist for its Outstanding Publication award, and a multiple winner of the University of Torontos Dean's Excellence Award. Prof. Wellmans website has been an "Expert's Choice" of the Social Science Information Gateway (UK). He was awarded a Society Barnstar and a Diligence Barnstar in 2007 for his work on Wikipedia, and his Geekus Unixus paper was nominated in 2007 for the IgNobel Award in Writing. In 2010, Prof. Cliff Lampe reported, In studying social network sites, every time I think Ive thought of something new, it turns out that Barry Wellman wrote about it ten years ago [keynote address to the WikSym conference, Gdansk Poland]. In March 2012, Wellman was identified by the Toronto Globe and Mail as having the highest h-index (of citations) of all Canadian sociologists.

    Leadership: Barry Wellman currently co-directs the NetLab Network.

    He founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 1976, heading this interdisciplinary body until 1988. Prof. Wellman is the Chair-Emeritus of the Communication and Information Technologies and the Community and Urban Sociology sections of the American Sociological Association. He is one of the few persons to have chaired two sections. He has also been has been on the Council of the ASAs Community section, and its Sociology and Computing section, as well as the Community Research section of the International Sociological Association. Prof. Wellman was elected to the Executive Committee of the interdisciplinary Association of Internet Researchers in October 2001. Prof. Wellman was selected in 1994 as one of the five active Canadian members of the Sociological Research Association (the American honor society), was named to its Executive in 2000, and rose inexorably through the Executive ranks to be the Associations Chair, 2004-2005. He has also been selected for the Canadian Whos Who.

    Prof. Wellman was the American Sociological Association's first Advisor on Electronic Networking and the first Chair of the ASAs Electronic Publications committee. He was the Advisor of the Virtual Communities and Environments Focus Area for the Association for Computing Machinerys Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Processes, and a founding member of the ACMs Electronic Community Center committee. Wellman was a developer of the National Geographic Societys Web Survey 2000 on millennium trends and Web Survey 2001 investigating the internet in everyday life. He founded the Structural Analysis Program at the Department of Sociology and led it, 1979-1983, was a member of the Steering Committee of the University of Torontos Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), and is on the editorial board of 11 journals.

    Conjugal Connection: Barry has been married with Beverly Wellman since 1965. A medical sociologist, Beverly Wellman is the co-editor (with Merrijoy Kelner) of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenge and Change (Reading, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2001). Kelner and Wellman are the co-authors of numerous articles analyzing the uses and professionalization of complementary and alternative medicine. Beverly Wellmans career has included being a modern dancer, a teacher of primary grades and creative movement, the co-book essay editor of Social Networks, and a student and practitioner of the Alexander and Laban techniques.

    Biographical Notes: Prof. Wellman was educated on the streets of New York City, and at P.S. 33, Creston JHS 79, the Bronx High School of Science (Honors, 1959), Lafayette College (Honors B.A. in History, 1963), and Harvard University (M.A. in Social Relations, 1965; Ph.D. in Sociology, 1969). His doctoral thesis examined how race, class, and school segregation affect adolescent identity and cosmopolitanism in Pittsburgh at the time of the civil rights movement.

    Barry Wellman was Captain of Lafayette Colleges undefeated GE College Bowl team in 1962. In April 2003, he and the team returned Lafayette for a fortieth anniversary reunion where they lectured about their work and defeated current undergraduates in a College Bowl game, 320-150. Barry Wellman has appeared in other television and radio shows, and was featured in a feature-length documentary movie (What If...) about the late science-fiction writer (and friend) Judith Merril. He was the only academic whose picture hung among the performing artists in Torontos historic Bagel restaurant, until the restaurants demise in 2004.

  • Barry Wellman Retrieved from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, June 25, 2007. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

    Barry Wellman, FRSC (b. 1942) directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations. His overarching interest is in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to networked individualism Early Life

    Wellman was born, bar mitzvahed and raised in the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road area of the Bronx, New York City. He attended P.S. 33 and Creston J.H.S. 79, and was a member of the Fordham Flames. He gained his high school degree from the Bronx High School of Science in 1959. He received his A.B. (Bachelor's) degree magna cum laude from Lafayette College in 1963, majoring in social history and winning prizes in both history and religious studies. At Lafayette, he was a member of the McKelvy Honors House and captained the undefeated 1962 College Bowl team), whose final victory was over Berkeley. [1] His graduate work was at Harvard University, where he trained with Chad Gordon, Charles Tilly and Harrison White, and also studied with Roger Brown, George Homans, Alex Inkeles, Florence Kluckhohn, Talcott Parsons and Phillip J. Stone. He received M.A. in Social Relations in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1969. His focus was on community, computer applications, social networks and self-conception, and his dissertation showed that the social identities of African-American and White American Pittsburgh junior high school students were related to the extent of segregation of their schools. Barry Wellman has been married since 1965 with Beverly Wellman, a leading researcher in complementary and alternative medicine. Community Sociology

    Wellman has been a faculty member at the University of Toronto since 1967. Until 1990, he focused on community sociology and social network analysis. During his first three years in Toronto, he also held a joint appointment with the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. His first project at the Clarke, working with D.B. Coates was co-directing the "Yorklea Study" in the Toronto borough of East York. This first East York study, with data collected in 1968, attempted (unsuccessfully) to do a field study of a large population, linking interpersonal relations with psychiatric symptoms. However, the study was notable for pioneering the study of "social support", documenting the prevalence of non-local friendship and kinship ties, demonstrating that community is no longer confined to neighborhood and studying non-local communities as social networks. Wellman's "Community Question" paper, reporting on this study, has been selected as one of the seven most important articles in English-Canadian sociology. [2] A second East York study, conducted in 1978-1979 at the University of Toronto's Centre for Urban and Community Studies, used in-depth interviews with 33 East Yorkers (originally surveyed in the first study) to find out much more information about their social networks. It was probably the first study to provide evidence about which kinds of ties and networks provide which types of social support. It showed, for example, that sisters provide siblings with much emotional support, while parents provide financial aid.[3] The support seems to come more from the characteristics of the ties than from the networks in which they are embedded.[4] This research also demonstrated that wives maintain social networks for their husbands as well as for themselves. [5] Although Wellman's work has shifted primarily to studies of the Internet (see section below), he has continued collaborative analyses of the first and second East York studies, showing that reciprocity (like social support) is

  • much more of a tie phenomenon than a social network phenomenon[6] and that the frequency and supportiveness of interpersonal contact before the Internet was non-linearly affected by residential (and workplace) distance.[7] He has also edited Networks in the Global Village (1999), a book of original articles about personal networks around the world. Social Network Theory

    Concomitant with his empirical work, Wellman has contributed to the theory of social network analysis. The most comprehensive statement is in his introductory article to Social Structures, co-edited with the late S.D. Berkowitz. This work reviews the history of social network thought, and suggests a number of basic principles of social network analysis.[8] More recent and more focused theoretical work has discussed the "glocalization" of contemporary communities (simultaneously "global" and "local")[9] and the rise of "networked individualism" -- the transformation from group-based networks to individualized networks.[10] Social Network Methods

    Wellman's methodological contributions have been for the analysis of ego-centered or "personal" networks -- defined from the standpoint of an individual (usually a person). As batches of personal networks are often studied, this calls for somewhat different techniques than the more common social network practice of analyzing a single large network. A 2007 paper, co-authored by Wellman (with Bernie Hogan and Juan-Antonio Carrasco), has discussed alternatives in gathering personal network data.[11] A paper with Kenneth Frank showed how to tackle the problem of simultaneously analyzing personal network data on the two distinct levels of ties and networks.[12] The most widely cited papers are the simplest: Co-authored guides to analyzing personal network data while using the statistical software packages SAS and SPSS.[13] Other work by Wellman with Howard D. White and associates has examined how to link social network analysis with the scientometric study of citation networks. This research has shown that scholarly friends do not necessarily cite each other, but that scholars cited in the same article are apt to seek each other out and become friends.[14]

    Internet, Technology and Society

    Barry Wellman has often worked in collaboration with computer scientists, communication scientists and information scientists. In 1990, he became involved in studying how ordinary people use the Internet and other communication technologies to communicate and exchange information at work, at home and in the community. Thus his work has expanded his interest in non-local communities and social networks to encompass the Internet, mobile phones and other information and communication technologies. Wellman at the International Conference on

    Communities & Technologies, Amsterdam, 2003

    Work Networks and ICTs

    Wellman's initial project ("Cavecat" which morphed into "Telepresence") was in collaboration with Ronald Baecker, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Marilyn Mantei, Gale Moore, and Janet Salaff. This was a pioneering effort in the early 1990s, before the advent of the Internet, to use networked PCs for videoconferencing and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW).[15] Caroline Haythornthwaite (for her dissertation, etc.) and Wellman analyzed why computer scientists connect with each other -- online and offline. They discovered that friendships as well as collaborative work were prime movers of connectivity at work.[16].

  • Wellman and Anabel Quan-Haase also wondered if such computer-supported work teams were supporting networked organizations, in which bureaucratic structure and physical proximity did not matter. Their research in one high-tech American organization -- heavily dependent on instant messaging and e-mail showed that the supposed ICT-driven transformation of work to networked organizations was only partially fulfilled in practice. The organizational constraints o of departmental organization (including power) and physical proximity continued to play important roles. There were strong norms in the organization for when different communication media were used, with face-to-face contact intertwined with online contact. [17] Community Networks and ICTs

    As a community sociologist, Wellman began arguing that too much analysis of life online was happening in isolation from other aspects of everyday life. He published several papers (alone and with associates) arguing the need to contextualize Internet research, and proposing that online relations -- like off-line -- would be best studied as ramified social networks rather than as bounded groups.[18]. This argument culminated in a 2002 book, The Internet in Everyday Life (co-edited with Caroline Haythornthwaite), providing exemplification from studies in a number of social milieus. Prof. Wellman also led some of the empirical work in this area. He was part of a team (led by James Witte) that surveyed visitors to the National Geographic Society's website in 1998. Wellman's unit used these data to counter the dystopian argument that Internet involvement was associated with social isolation.[19] Some critics wondered if the non-random nature of the National Geographic web survey had distorted the results. However, the large U.S. national survey analyzed in the Pew Internet report, "The Strength of Weak Ties" (with Jeffrey Boase, John Hannigan and Lee Rainie) also showed a positive association between communication online and communication by telephone and face-to-face. The study showed that email is well-suited for maintaining regular contact with large networks, and especially with relationships that are only somewhat strong. The study also found that Internet users get more help than non-users from friends and relatives. [20] Research into the "glocalization" concept also fed into this intellectual stream. Keith Hampton and Wellman studied the Toronto suburb of "Netville "a pseudonym". It showed the interplay between online and offline activity, and how the Internet -- aided by a list-serve -- is not just a means of long-distance communication but enhances neighboring and civic involvement. [21] Wellman's current work continues to focus on the interplay between information and communication technologies, especially the Internet, social relations and social structure. For example, he is collaborating on Wenhong Chen's study of transnational immigrant entrepreneurs who link China and North America.[22] Wellman's major current focus is as the head of the Connected Lives project studying the interplay between communication, community and domestic relationships in Toronto and in Chapleau in rural northern Ontario. Early findings of the interplay between online and offline life are summarized in "Connected Lives: The Project".[23] More focused research (with Jennifer Kayahara) has shown how the onetime two-step flow of communication has become more recursively multi-step as the result of the Internet's facilitation of information seeking and communication.[24]. Recent research (with Tracy Kennedy) has argued that many households, like communities, have changed from local groups to become spatially- dispersed networks connected by frequent ICT and mobile phone communication.[25] Other NetLab researchers, besides those noted in the text and the notes, include Prof. Dean Behrens , and doctoral students Paul Glavin and Jing Shen. Teaching and Mentoring Wellman is known for his interactive style of teaching and extensive mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students in courses about community, social network analysis, and technology and society. He has co-authored with more than 80 persons, almost all of whom were his students. He received the International Network for Personal Relationships' "Mentoring Award" in 1998.

    Offices

  • Professor Wellman founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 1976-1977 and led it until 1988. Concomitantly, he founded, edited and published INSNA's informal journal, Connections. In 1979, he founded the University of Toronto's "Structural Analysis Programme" in the Department of Sociology, focused on studying social structure and relationships from a social network perspective, and he led the twelve-person virtual research centre until 1982. The Department of Sociology subsequently established the "Barry Wellman Award" for excellence in undergraduate research. Council member and then President of two sections of the American Sociological Association:

    Community and Urban Sociology (1998-2000), where he led the team that found the journal, City and Community; Communications and Information Technologies (2005-2006), which increased in membership from 95 to 303.[26]

    Elected to the Council (2000) and then became President of the Sociological Research Association honor society (2004-2005). Currently the North American editor of the journal Information, Communication and Society. Associate Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, where he was based, 1970-2007. Awards

    Career achievement awards from: The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (2001) The International Network for Social Network Analysis (1994) Community and Urban Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (2006) Communication and Information Technologies of the American Sociological Association(2004). Mentoring Award, International Network for Personal Relationships (1998). Elected to the Sociological Research Association honor society (1994). S.D. Clark endowed chair at the University of Toronto (2006). [27][28] Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, FRSC (2007) Erds number of 3. Residencies at the: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar (1978-1979) Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Lake Como Italy (1999); World Internet Project's headquarters at the University of Southern California (2006), University of Surrey (Guildford England, 1974-1975), University of California, Berkeley -- Institute for Urban and Regional Development (1985) and School of Information Management and Systems (1999)

    . Publications

    Wellman is the editor of three books, and the author of more than 200 articles. His books are: Social Structures: A Network Approach (with the late S.D. Berkowitz; Cambridge University Press, 1988); Networks in the Global Village (Boulder, CO: Westview 1999); The Internet in Everyday Life (with Caroline Haythornthwaite; Oxford: Blackwell 2002). Wellman has an extensive website with many of his publications available for reading. He has also compiled, for fun, Updating Cybertimes (http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php): a site that translates songs, movies, popular culture and historical figures from pre-Internet days to current times.

  • Notes

    1. Barry Wellman, "On from Lafayette," http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html

    2. Barry Wellman, "The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers." American Journal of Sociology 84 (March, 1979): 1201-31.

    3. Barry Wellman and Scot Wortley. "Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support." 1990. American Journal of Sociology 96, 3 (Nov.): 558-88. Barry Wellman and Scot Wortley, "Brothers' Keepers: Situating Kinship Relations in Broader Networks of Social Support." Sociological Perspectives 32, 3 (1989): 273-306. Barry Wellman, Peter Carrington and Alan Hall "Networks as Personal Communities." Pp. 130-84 in Social Structures: A Network Approach, edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

    4. Barry Wellman and Kenneth Frank. Network Capital in a Multi-Level World: Getting Support in Personal Communities. Pp. 233-73 in Social Capital: Theory and Research, edited by Nan Lin, Karen Cook and Ronald Burt. Chicago: Aldine DeGruyter, 2001.

    5. Barry Wellman, "Men in Networks: Private Community, Domestic Friendships." Pp. 74-114 in Men's Friendships, edited by Peter Nardi. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (1992). Barry Wellman, "Domestic Work, Paid Work and Net Work." Pp. 159-91 in Understanding Personal Relationships, edited by Steve Duck and Daniel Perlman. London: Sage, 1985.

    6. Gabriele Plickert, Rochelle Ct and Barry Wellman. 2007. " It's Not Who You Know, It's How You Know Them: Who Exchanges What With Whom? Social Networks 29: in press.

    7. Diana Mok and Barry Wellman. 2007. How Much Did Distance Matter Before the Internet? Social Networks 29: in press.

    8. Barry Wellman, "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance." Pp. 19-61 in Social Structures: A Network Approach, edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

    9. Barry Wellman, Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism. Pp. 11-25 in Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches, edited by Makoto Tanabe, Peter van den Besselaar, and Toru Ishida. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002.

    10. Barry Wellman, Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Networked Individualism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25,2 (June, 2001): 227-52.

    11. Bernie Hogan, Juan-Antonio Carrasco and Barry Wellman. 2007. Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-Aided Sociograms. Field Methods 19 (2), May: 116-144.

    12. Barry Wellman and Kenneth Frank. Network Capital in a Multi-Level World: Getting Support in Personal Communities. Pp. 233-73 in Social Capital: Theory and Research, edited by Nan Lin, Karen Cook and Ronald Burt. Chicago: Aldine DeGruyter, 2001.

    13. Christoph Mller, Barry Wellman and Alexandra Marin. How to Use SPSS to Study Ego-Centered Networks. Bulletin de Methode Sociologique 69 (Oct, 1999): 83-100. Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman. "Using SAS to Convert Ego-Centered Networks to Whole Networks." Bulletin de Methode Sociologique No. 50 (March, 1996): 71-84. Barry Wellman, "How to Use SAS to Study Egocentric Networks". Cultural Anthropology Methods Bulletin 4 (June, 1992): 6-12. Barry Wellman, "Doing It Ourselves: The SPSS Manual as Sociology's Most Influential Recent Book." Pp. 71-78 in Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential Books, edited by Dan Clawson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

    14. Howard White, Barry Wellman and Nancy Nazer. 2004. Does Citation Reflect Social Structure: Longitudinal Evidence from the `Globenet Interdisciplinary Research Group. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55, 2: 111-26. Dimitrina Dimitrova, Emmanuel Koku, Barry Wellman and Howard White. Who Do Scientists Network With?" Final Report to the Canadian Water Network, National Centre of Excellence, May 2007.

    15. Marilyn Mantei, Ronald Baecker, William Buxton, Thomas Milligan, Abigail Sellen and Barry Wellman. "Experiences in the Use of a Media Space." 1992. Pp 372-78 in Groupware: Software for Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, edited by David Marca and Geoffrey Bock. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992, pp. 372-78. Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman, Work, Friendship and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49, 12 (Oct., 1998): 1101-1114.

    16. Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman, Work, Friendship and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization. Journal of the American Society for Information Science

    49, 12 (Oct., 1998): 1101-1114. Caroline Haythornthwaite, Barry Wellman and Laura Garton, Work and Community Via Computer-Mediated Communication. Pp. 199-226 in Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Transpersonal Implications, edited by Jayne Gackenbach. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.

    17. Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman. Hyperconnected Net Work: Computer-Mediated Community in a High-Tech Organization. Pp. 281-333 in The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy, edited by Charles Heckscher and Paul Adler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006; Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman, From the Computerization Movement to Computerization: A Case Study of a Community of Practice. In

  • Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Ken Kraemer and Margaret Elliott. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007.

    18. Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia. "Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities." Pp. 167-94 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter edited by Barry Wellman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Barry Wellman, "An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network." Pp. 179-205 in Culture of the Internet, edited by Sara Kiesler. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. Barry Wellman, "The Rise of Networked Individualism." Pp. 17-42 in Community Informatics, edited by Leigh Keeble and Brian Loader. London: Routledge, 2001. Barry Wellman and Bernie Hogan (2004). The Immanent Internet. Pp. 54-80 in Netting Citizens, edited by Johnston McKay. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press. Barry Wellman. 2004. The Three Ages of Internet Studies: Ten, Five and Zero Years Ago. New Media and Society 6 (1): 108-114.

    19. Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman. 2002. The Global Villagers: Comparing the Users and Uses of the Internet Around the World. Pp. 74-113 in The Internet in Everyday Life, edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite. Oxford: Blackwell. Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman with James Witte and Keith Hampton. 2002. Capitalizing on the Internet: Network Capital, Participatory Capital, and Sense of Community. Pp. 291-324 in The Internet in Everyday Life, edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite. Oxford: Blackwell.

    20. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Internet_ties.pdf

    21. Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman. 2003. Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb. City and Community 2, 3 (Fall): 277-311. Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman. 2002. "The Not So Global Village of Netville." Pp. 345-71 in The Internet in Everyday Life, edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite. Oxford: Blackwell.

    22. Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman, Doing Business at Home and Away: Policy Implications of Chinese-Canadian Entrepreneurship. Canada in Asia Series, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver. April, 2007. Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Dong Weizhen. Networking Guanxi." Pp. 221-41 in Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture and the Changing Nature of Guanxi, edited by Thomas Gold, Douglas Guthrie and David Wank. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

    23. Barry Wellman and Bernie Hogan, with Kristen Berg, Jeffrey Boase, Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Rochelle Ct, Jennifer Kayahara, Tracy L.M. Kennedy and Phouc Tran. Connected Lives: The Project Pp. 157-211 in Networked Neighbourhoods: The Online Community in Context, edited by Patrick Purcell. Guildford, UK: Springer, 2006.

    24. Jennifer Kayahara and Barry Wellman, 2007. Searching for Culture High and Low. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 12 (4): April: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/kayahara.html

    25. Tracy Kennedy and Barry Wellman. 2007. The Networked Household. Information, Communication and Society 10: forthcoming.

    26. Ronald Anderson and Barry Wellman, eds., "Symposium on the History of CITASA, 1988 to 2005: From Microcomputers to Communication and Information Technologies. Social Science Computer Review 24, 2 (Summer, 2006).

    27. Dennis William Magill and William Michelson, eds., Images of Change. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1999.)

    28. "About Barry," http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/vita/index.html

    References

    Barry Wellman website. (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/)

    Barry Wellman, Through Life from the Bronx to Cyberspace. Aristeia, Fall, 2005: 24.

    Connected Lives and Networked Individualism: The Internet in Everyday Life. Big Ideas, TV Ontario, March 10, 2007.[1].(http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas)

    Bryan Kirschner, Interview with Barry Wellman, S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, on Social Network Analysis and Community., Port25 (Microsoft Open Source Podcast), December 15, 2006. [2] (http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/12/15/barry.aspx)

    Cara Donnelly, Dr. Barry Wellman Comments on the Internet's Social Impact. Hot Topics, April 2006. [3] (http://www.carleton.ca/hotlab/hottopics/Articles/April2006-Dr.BarryWellman.html)

    Annick Jesdanun, Alone on the Internet? Hardly Associated Press. January 26, 2006. [4] (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13746169.htm)

    Kenneth Kidd, Its All in Your Head. Toronto Star, October 9, 2005. pp. I1, I8. [5] (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1128767196799&call_pageid=1105528093962)

    Howard Rheingold, NetLab Probes the Glocal Village. TheFeature.com, December 16, 2004.

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    Diana Kuprel, "The Glocal Village: Internet and Community", Ide&as: Arts & Science Review", University of Toronto, Fall 2004.

    "Un McLuhan Con Datos." La Vanguardia [Barcelona], November 18, 2001: 10-11.

    Elaine Carey, "In Netville, Good Nexus Makes Good Neighbours," Toronto Star, September 14, 2000; , p. B2; [6] (http://neighborplace.com/research_1.html)

    Carin Rubenstein, The Folks Next Door Aren't Strangers After All, "New York Times, January 7, 1993.

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    HONORS Lifetime Achievement Award, Oxford Internet Institute, November 2014

    Issues 21 about cybersociety awarded Moonbeam Best Book Series Gold Award, by Independent Publisher, October 2014. [Rubicon Publishing for Scholastic Education] http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1862

    Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social Operating System (MIT Press, 2012). Awarded Best Book prize by Communication and Information Technologies section, Smerican Sociological Association, August 2014

    Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award, May 2014

    Elected to Communication and Information Technologies Council, American Sociological Association, 2014-2016

    Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social Operating System (MIT Press, 2012) picked by English journalist Julia Hobsbawm as #1 of 14 Books to Read in 2014, in her blog, On Living and (Net)Working in an Age of Overload. January 1, 2014, http://juliahobsbawm.wordpress.com/?p=233&preview=true

    Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social Operating System (MIT Press, 2012). American Association of Publishers: 2nd prize PROSE Award for Sociology and Social Work, February 2013. http://www.publishers.org/prosewinners2012/

    Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, with Christian Beermann and Tsahi Hayat, The Indvidual in a Networked World: Two Scenarios chosen as one of the ten most popular stories from The Futurist magazine in 2012.

    Xiaolin Zhuo, Barry Wellman and Justine Yu. 2011 Egypt: The First Internet Revolt? Peace Magazine, 27, 3 (June): 6-10 chosen as exemplary article by York University Libraries, 2012.

    Identified by Toronto Globe and Mail, March 27, 2012, as having the highest h-index for citations of all Canadian sociologists

    Nominated by University of Toronto for Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Gold Medal for Outstanding Social Science Research, May 2011

    Yu Janice Zhang and Barry Wellman, The Complexity of Closeness: An Empirical Analysis. Rising Stars of Research Conference, Vancouver, August 2010.

    Board of Trustees, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, 2010-2013.

    International Scholarly Advisory Committee, Institute of Empirical Social Science (IESSR), Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), 2009-2013

    Fellow, Centre for Public Administration and Policies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon, 2009 -

    Blurb for How Wikipedia Works, by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews and Ben Yates. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2008.

    Listed as one of Canadas Cyber Celebs, Webslinger, July 1, 2008. http://glenfarrelly.blogspot.com/

    Networked Individualism research selected for national English language university entrance exam, Jiangsu province, China, May 2008.

    Communication Research as an Open Field Award, 2008, from the International Communication Association for a researcher who has made important contributions to the field of communications from outside the discipline of communications. 1st time this prize was awarded.

    Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2007

    Appointed S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Fall 2006

    Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Outstanding Career Contribution, American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology section, 2006.

    Chair, Communication and Information Technologies section, American Sociological Association, 2004-2005.

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    Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association, Communications and Information Technologies section, 2004.

    Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital?(2001) article ranked as the Most Frequently Read in the American Behavioral Scientist (September 2007); 2nd most frequently read, January 2010

    Research selected as Two out of Nine Milestones in the Evolution of the Concept of Community in the United States [sic], 1950-2000. In John Bruhn, The Sociology of Community Connections, Berlin: Springer, 2004, p. 39. The milestones are: (1) Communities are networks and not local solidarities; the city is a network of networks: (2) The internet helps connect local and dispersed community members on and offline.

    Selected Faculty Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Laboratory, January 2008 -.

    Society Barnstar award, Wikipedia, September 2007, for great work on social science articles, and making Wikipedia a better place.

    Diligence Barnstar award, Wikipedia, October 2007, for your dogged approach to the protection of your favorite articles.

    Minor Barnstar award, Wikipedia, February 2009, for making essential contributions to Wikipedia.

    Awesome Wikipedian award August 2010, for being such a beautiful person and great WIkipedian

    Editor of the Month May 2004 by Berkshire Reference Works for editing Internet and Community section of Encyclopedia of Community (Sage, 2003).

    Member, Global Consumer Advisory Board, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Jan 2002 Jan 2004.

    Elected, Committee on Sections, American Sociological Association, 2003-2006.

    Technology Terminology and Complexity Study (AMD Global Consumer Advisory Board, with Citigate Cunningham) Gold Prize Magellan Award winner for Publicity Campaign Computers, League of American Communications Professionals, 2003.

    Selected as High-Performing Researcher, Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada, July 2003.

    Elected founding Executive Committee member, Association of Internet Researchers, 2001 2004

    Website selected as "Expert's Choice" for Social Science Information Gateway (UK): "an excellent source of material on network analysis and the integration of electronic and social networks." [www:sosig.ac.uk/experts-choice/experts/duncan_timms.html].

    Included in the gateway, July 2002: www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/tempbyhand.pl?view=full&database=sosigv3&query=1010072173-26. Reconfirmed Feb 2003: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/resource?database=SOSIG&query=992619187-5417

    Fellow, IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, 2001-2002.

    Listed in BestCelebritySites.com along with Britney Spears and 50K+ others. May 5 2001. [http://bestcelebritysites.com/cgi-bin/pod.cgi/Computers/Internet/Cyberspace/Culture/]

    The Community Question (1979) selected as one of the 7 Top English-Canadian Articles of the 20th-century by the Canadian Journal of Sociology (Summer 2001).

    Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award, Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, 2001.

    Social Structures: A Network Approach (ed. by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz) named as one of International Sociological Associations Books of the Century, April 2001.

    BarryFest celebratory conference [Social Structure in a Changing World: Presentations in Honour of Barry Wellman], Dept of Sociology, Univ of Toronto, April 2001

    Fellow, Bellagio Centre [Rockefeller Foundation], Italy, October-November, 1999

    Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Assoc, 1998-2000.

    Web Page of the Month, Knowledge Media Design Institute, Univ of Toronto, April, 1998.

    Mentoring Award, International Network for Personal Relationships, 1998.

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    Listed, Canadian Applied Science and Technology Registry [aka Whos Who in Canadian High-Tech], 1998.

    Elected, Council, Sociology and Computing section, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999.

    Web Page of the Month, Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Toronto, Dec, 1997.

    Picture Posted on Bagel Restaurants Wall of Fame, College St., Toronto. Nov, 1997.

    Outstanding Teaching Award, Second Place, International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, 1996.

    Outstanding Publication Award, Finalist, Intl Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, 1996.

    Nominated, Council of Organizations, Occupation and Work section, American Sociological Assoc, 1995.

    Halbert Exchange Fellowship, Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, April-May, 1995.

    Elected, Sociological Research Association [honor society], 1994 Member, Executive Nominations Committee, 1996; Elected, Executive Committee, 2000, rising through ranks to be Chair, 2004-2005; Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, 2001-2002; Chair, Membership Committee, 2002-2003; Secretary-Treasurer, 2003-2004, President, 2004-2005.

    Info Technology Research Centre "Innovation Award" to the Telepresence Project, Sept. 1994.

    Plenary Speaker, International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, Groningen, Neth., July, 1994.

    Distinguished Keynote Speaker, International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, New Orleans, Feb. 1994. [highest honor of society]

    Top-ranked social science proposal, Connaught Foundation Transformative Grant, 1994.

    Proposal to study networks ranked 4/135 by Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, 1994.

    Identified as 2nd most prominent scholar in social network analysis. Study by Kathleen Carley & Norman Hummon (Social Networks, 1993).

    Listed, Canadian Who's Who, 1993 -.

    Voted Reggae King, Grand Lido Hotel, Negril, Jamaica, Dec., 1993.

    Research Highlight, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Annual Report 1992-1993

    Dean's Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Science, Univ. of Toronto, 1991, 1992, 1993.

    Barry Wellman Award, established 1990 by Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Toronto, for year's best undergraduate research paper.

    SAS Success Story award for innovative computer program for ego-centered network analysis, 1990.

    Third Place, Spring Rally, BMW Car Club of Canada, 1990.

    Second Prize, Best Paper in Sociological Theory, American Sociological Association, 1984.

    Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Leave Fellowship, 1983 - 1984

    Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. 1978 - 1979.

    Canada Council Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, 1974 - 1975.

    Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1963 - 1964; NSF Graduate Fellowship 1964- 1967.

    Ranked First in Arts & Science: Magna cum laude honors, Lafayette College, 1963.

    Elected to Phi Beta Kappa; Elected to Phi Alpha Theta, History Honors Society

    American Friends of Lafayette Medal, 1963: Outstanding History Major;

    Porter Bible Prize, Lafayette College, 1963. Excellence in Religious Studies.

    Captain & highest scorer, Lafayette College team, Undefeated on "GE College Bowl", CBS-TV, 1962. Beat Berkeley for final victory.

    SAT [Scholastic Aptitude Test] score=1598/1600, Bronx High School of Science, 1958

    Varsity Letter winner in Track (mile relay) and Cross-Country, Bronx High School of Science, 1956-1959.

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    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

    BOARDS Founder and Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 1976 - 1988.

    International Coordinator and Member of Executive Committee, 1988 2013

    Executive Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 2012-

    Council Member, Liasion with Information, Communication and Society. Member of Best Paper Prize and Membershp Committees, Communication and Information Technologies Section, American Sociological Association, 2014-2016

    Member, City of Toronto Public Health Social Inclusion & Health Advisory Group, 2015- Fellow, Social Technology Lab, Arizona State University, 2015-

    Member, American Sociological Association Task Force on Engaging Sociology, 2014-2015

    Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, NuMe [the Research Laboratory for New Media], University of Udine, 2015-

    Faculty Associate, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute, 2013-2015

    Member, American Sociological Association Social Media Task Force, 2013-2014

    Advisory Board, Network of Excellence in Internet Science, 2013-

    International Scholarly Advisory Committee, Institute of Empirical Social Science (IESSR), Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), 2009-2013

    Advisory Committee, Oxford Internet Institute Summer School in Toronto, 2012-2013

    Advisory Board, Instiuto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet [ISDI, Higher Institute for Internet Development], Complutense University, Madrid, 2011-

    Chair, Communications and Information Technologies Section Career Achievement Awards Committee, American Sociological Association, 2011

    Board of Trustees, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, 2010-2013.

    International Scholarly Advisory Committee, Institute of Empirical Social Science (IESSR), Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), 2009-2013

    Member, International Communication Association Selection Committee for Communication Research as an Open Field Award, 2008-2009.

    Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section Career Achievement Awards Committee, American Sociological Association, 2008-2009.

    Chair, Communications and Information Technologies Section Career Achievement Awards Committee, American Sociological Association, 2007-2009, 2013 (Member, 2006-2007).

    Founding Board member, Philip Stone Center, Mani Losaj, Croatia, 2007

    Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section Publications Oversight Committee, American Sociological Association, 2005-2008.

    Advisory Board Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, 2008-2009

    Diaspora Task Force, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, 2006

    Advisory Committee Member, Math and Public Policy Lecture Series, Fields Institute, Toronto, 2006-

    Sloan (Foundation) Industry Studies Affiliate, 2005

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    Member, Steering Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 1999 2008

    Founding Council member, Community and Urban Sociology section, Canadian Sociology and

    Anthropology Assoc, 1999

    Chair, Community and Urban Soc. section, American Sociological Association, 1998-2000; [Chair

    Emeritus & Council Member, 2000-2002].

    Focus Area Advisor, Virtual Community and Environments," Association for Computing Machinery,

    Special Interest Group on Group Supporting Processes [SIGGROUP], 19972005.

    Chair, Communications and Information Technologies section, American Sociological Association, 2004-2005.

    Member, Committee on Sections, American Sociological Association, 2003-2006 Nominations Committee, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2002-2003, 2006.

    Member, Web Committee, American Sociological Association, 2002 2003

    Executive Committee founding member, Association of Internet Researchers, 2001 - 2004.

    Committee member, Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation, and Global Security. Social Science Research Council, 2000 2002.

    Council member, Sociology and Computing section, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999.

    Member, Information Highway Working Group [Canada], 1996 - 1997.

    Member, Electronic Communities Committee, Association for Computing Machinery, 1996 - 1997.

    Awards Committee Member, International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships (Publication,

    Outstanding Contribution, Teaching), 1995 1996.

    Founding Electronic Advisor, American Sociological Association, 1995-1997

    Founding Chair, Subcommittee on Electronic Publications, Publications Committee, American

    Sociological Association, 1995 1997.

    Network Therapy Advisory Committee, Community Occupational Therapy Association, 1994 - 1997.

    (Founding) Chair, Committee on Publications, Community and Urban Sociology section, American

    Sociological Association, 1994 - 1997.

    Friends of the Spaced Out Library: The Merril Collection of Speculative Fiction, 1990 - 1997.

    Member, Community and Urban Sociology Section Selection Committee, "Robert Park Award for

    Outstanding Book," American Sociological Association, 1990 1991; 2004-2005.

    International Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 1988 Founder and

    Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 1976 1988.

    Founding Member, Advisory Council, International Network for the Study of Personal Relations, 1986 -

    Chair, Community Section Selection Committee, "Lynd Award for Outstanding Contribution to

    Community Sociology," American Sociological Association, 1987 - 1988; Member 1986 - 1987.

    Cooperating Partner, KoprA (Kooperationsnetz Prospektive Arbeitsforschung / Cooperation Network

    Prospective Work Analysis), Institut fr Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Muenchen

    Board Member, Community Research Committee, International Sociological Association 19811986 Council Member, Community Section, American Sociological Association, 1977-1980. Member, Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments about the Worthiness of a

    General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists, 2007

    EDITORIAL CURRENT Co-Edtior, Two Special issues on Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia, American Behavioral

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    Scientist, 2013-2015, 59, 8-9

    Co-Editor, Special issue on Networked Work, American Behavioral Scientist 59, 4, 2015

    Co-Editor, Special issue on Networked Research, American Behavioral Scientist 59, 5, 2015

    Co-Editor, Special issue on Social Influence and Digital Media, American Behavioral Scientist, 58, 10, 2014

    North American Editor, Information, Communication and Society, 2003 . (Editorial Board, 2000-2003)

    Consulting Digital Media Editor, Rubicon Publishing, 2013. Issues 21 about cybersociety awarded Moonbeam Best Book Series Gold Award, by Independent Publisher, October 2014. http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1862

    Editorial Board, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2013-

    Editorial Board, Emerald Studies in Media and Communications, 2013-

    Founding Board member, Journal of e-Planning. 2011-

    Editorial Board, Mobile Media & Communication, 2012-

    Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, 2011-

    Editorial Board, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2010 2014

    Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2010-2014

    International Advisory Board, Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, 2009 -

    Editorial Board, Sociological Focus, 2009-2014

    Editorial Board, Bulletin de Methode Sociologique, 2009-

    Editorial Board, Sociological Analysis [Albania], 2008-

    Editorial Board, American Behavioral Scientist, 2008 -

    Consulting Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005-2016.

    Special Issue Editorial Board, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Special issue: Social Networks in Socio-technical Environments.2009

    Editorial Board, Personal Relationships, 2006 -

    Editorial Board, Mobile Communication Research Annual, 2006 -

    Editorial Board, Journal of Online Behavior, 1998 -

    International Correspondent, Sociological Research Online, 1995 -

    Editorial Board, Field Methods, 1999 - 2015

    Founding Editorial Board, International Journal of Internet Science, 2004 - Editorial Board, Mobile Communication Research Annual, 2006 -

    PAST

    Founding Editor, Connections, 1976 1988.

    Co-Editor, Special issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research, American Behavioral Scientist, 2011-2013

    Co-Editor, Information, Communication and Society, special section on social movements, February, 2010 [selected papers from American Sociological Association 2008 annual meeting]

    Co-Editor, Information, Communication and Society, special issue on Communication and Information Technologies, June 2009 [best papers from American Sociological Association 2008 annual meeting]

    Chair, Publications Oversight Committee, Editorial Board Member, City & Community, 2005-2008.

    Co-Editor, Information, Communication and Society, special issue on Communication and Information Technologies, May 2008 [best papers from American Sociological Association 2007 annual meeting]

    Co-Editor, Information, Communication and Society, special issue of best papers from Internet Research 2007 conference, March 2008.

    Editor, Special Issue on Personal Community Networks, Social Networks 29 (3), July, 2007.

    Editor, Special Issue on Methods of Studying Networks On and Offline. Field Methods 19 (2), May

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    2007.

    Associate Editor, Social Networks: 1982 - 2003. (Editorial Board Member, 1977 - 1982)

    Co-Book Review Editor, Social Networks, 2003 2007. Founder and Chair, Publications Oversight Committee, City & Community, 2005-2008. [ASA's 1st

    section based journal: print/web] Advisory Board, Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage Publications, 2005 - 2008

    Advisory Board, "Structural Analysis" monograph series: Academic Press, 1982 - 1986; Cambridge University Press, 1986 - 1991.

    Advisory Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1983 - 1997

    Editorial Advisor, Journal of Social Issues, Two special issues on "Social Support," 1983 1984.

    Editorial Board, "Personal Relationships" book series, Sage Publications, 1983 - 1986

    Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1984 1986.

    Co-Editor, special issue on social networks, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 9(2) 1992.

    Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology Methods, 1992 - 1999.

    Editorial Board, Progress in Communication Science, 1993 - 1995

    Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 1994 - 2003.

    Founding Contributing Editor, New Media and Society, 1997 2006

    Editorial Board, Sociological Inquiry, 1997 - 2003.

    Editorial Advisory Committee, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 1997 - 2000.

    Advisory Board, Sociological Analysis [Albanian journal of sociology], 1998 - 1999.

    Founder, Founding Associate Editor, & Chair Publications Committee, City & Community, 19982005.

    Editorial Board, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1999 - 2003.

    Editorial Board, Sociological Perspectives, 2000 - 2003.

    Consulting Editor, Communication Research, Special issue on "Communication Technology and Community," 2000-2001.

    Co-Editor, Special issue on The Internet in Everyday Life. American Behavioral Scientist 45, 3, 2001.

    Founding Editorial Board, International Journal for Networked and Virtual Organizations, 2001 - 2006

    Working Paper / Technical Reports Editor in Chief, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 2003 2006

    Technology and Community Editor, Encyclopedia of Community (Sage, 2003)

    Editorial Board, Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2003 - 2004

    Senior Co-Editor, Symposium on the History of CITASA, 1988 to 2005: From Microcomputers to Communication and Information Technologies. Social Science Computer Review 24, 2 (Summer, 2006).

    Editor, Technical Report / Working Paper Series, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 2004 -2007 (Co-editor 2001-2004).

    RESEARCH

    CURRENT

    Principal and then Co-Investigator, Evaluating the Effects of The Triple Revolution on Networked

    Individualism In Communities, at Home and at Work. 2010-2019. Development of theory of

    networked individualism, combined with in-depth analysis of how North Americans integrate into their

    lives the network revolution, internet revolution and mobile revolution. Supported by SSHRCC.

    Collaborators: Brent Berry (Principal Investigator, 2015-2019); Rhonda McEwen, Barbara Neves, Anabel

    Quan-Haase. International Collaborators: Michel Grossetti, Helen Wang. Student collaborators: Christian

    Beermann, Jenna Jacobson, Chang Lin

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    Co-Investigator (with Tamer El-Dirahby (Principal Investigator), Ahmed Doha, Steve Easterbrook,

    Thomas Froese, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, and Eric Yu. Green 2.0: A Middleware Platform for Enabling

    Socio-Technical Analytics of Green Buildings. 2013-2016. This project aims at expliting advances in web

    2.0 and business information modeling to develop an interactive middleware platform to empower

    researchers from diverse backgrounds to create analysis protocols and software to help practitioners to

    develop and study possible scenarios for addressing the complexity of water and energy optimization in

    buildings while engaging users and harnessing their collective innovation. Supporrted by CANARIE.

    Principal Investigator, "Networking in the Global Village: The East York Study of How Personal

    Communities are Used" 1976 - . Follow-ups of the East York study of "Community Ties and Support

    Systems" (below). In-depth qualitative interviews of subsample of original respondents. Information on

    the structure and dynamics of community ties of men and women. Current focus is on reciprocity.

    Multilevel and longitudinal analyses of social support and reciprocity. Faculty collaborator: Ken Frank

    (Michigan State). Graduate student collaborators: Rochelle Cote, Gabriele Plickert., Janice Zhang.

    Supported by the University of Toronto, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Manpower

    and Immigration, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the (U.S.) Center for

    the Study of Metropolitan Problems, NIMH.

    PAST

    Network Investigator, Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND) Network Centre of

    Excellence, 2010-2015. Network of approximately 50 scholars in Canada in 32 projects studying and

    developing intersection of new media, computer science, social sciences and humanities. Within

    GRAND: Principal Network Investigator, Digital Infrastructures: Access and Use in the Network

    Society (DINS); Principal Network Investigator, Network Assessment And Validation for Effective

    Leadership (NAVEL); Network Investigator, Security and Privacy in New Media Environments.

    (PRIVM). Supported by Canadian governments Network Centres of Excellence program, Pew Internet

    and American Life Project, Sysomos, Telus (DINS); Bardel (EOVW). Faculty collaborators: Dimitrina

    Dimitrova, Anatoliy Gruzd, Catherine Middleton, Diana Mok, Jason Nolan, Anabel Quan-Haase, Yuri

    Takhteyev; Student collaborators: Melissa Godbout, Zack Hayat, Mo Guang Ying, Mehdi Zabet, Natalie

    Zinko.

    Co-investigator (with Anatoliy Gruzd), "How Online Social Media and Online Social Networks are

    Changing the Ways Scholars Disseminate Knowledge and Information" 2010-2013. Analysis of

    information flows in scholarly networks. Supported by SSHRCC.

    Co-Principal Investigator, The Spatiality of Personal Networks. 2003-2015. Uses social network

    data to examine the extent to which physical distance between network members affects their

    sociability, emotional support, and material aid. Collaborators: Juan-Antonio Carrasco (University of

    Concepcion, Chile) and Diana Mok (University of Western Ontario, Principal Investigator). Supported by

    the Joint Programme in Transportation of the University of Toronto and York University.

    Principal Investigator, Changing Internet Use in the United States. 2006-2012. Longitudinal

    analysis of annual surveys since 2003 of Internet use in everyday life, based on the World Internet

    Projects American surveys. Collaborator: Helen Hua Wang. Faculty collaborators Jeffrey Cole (University

    of Southern California), Michael Suman (UCLA).. Supported by the Center for the Digital Future, USC.

    Principal Investigator, "Connected Lives and Networked Individualism." 2002-. Analysis of survey

    and interview data about how the Internet fits in with friendship, community, social capital, domestic

    relationships and civic involvement. Comparative research being done in Toronto, northern Ontario and

    Japan. Faculty collaborators: Dean Behrens (northern Ontario); Kenichi Ikeda and Kakuko Miyata

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    (Japan). Student collaborators: Kristen Berg, Jeffrey Boase, Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Paul Glavin, Bernard

    Hogan, Jennifer Kayahara and Tracy Kennedy. Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research

    Council of Canada, the Joint Centre for Transportation Research, Intel, Nortel Networks, BCE, Bell

    University Labs, and Japan National Research Fund.

    Principal Investigator, Information Technology and Transnational Entrepreneurship. 2003-. An

    investigation of globalization and glocalization, studying how entrepreneurial networks between

    Toronto and major Chinese cities are connected, online and offline. Collaborator: Wenhong Chen.

    Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Asia-Pacific

    Foundation of Canada.

    Co-Principal Investigator, Networked Households Work and ICTs, Networked Communities.

    2007-2010. Three large-scale (N=2200) U.S. national random sample phone surveys about how

    information and communication technologies are affecting household relations, work ties, and ties with

    friends, relatives and neighbours. Co-Principal Investigators: Lee Rainie (Pew; all projects); Tracy

    Kennedy (households), Wenhong Chen (Duke University, work), and Keith Hampton (Annenberg School,

    University of Pennsylvania, community). Supported by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

    Co-Principal Investigator, Egotistics. 2005-2008. Development of software for personal network

    analysis. Collaborators: Bernie Hogan (Oxford), Wojciech Gryc (Oxford). Supported by the Knowledge

    Media Design Institute.

    Principal Investigator, The Strength of Internet Ties. 2003-2006. Analysis of large-scale U.S.

    survey data about how the Internet fits in with friendship, community, social capital, social support,

    information, and decision making. Student collaborator: Jeffrey Boase. Supported by the Pew Internet

    and American Life project and the Social Science Research Council of Canada.

    Principal Investigator, Hyperconnected Organizational Networks On and Offline. 2001-2006.

    Analysis of social networks, information flows and media use in organizations. Student (and then

    Faculty) Collaborator: Anabel Quan-Haase (University of Western Ontario). Organizational

    Collaborators: Joseph Cothrel, Richard Livesley. Supported by IBM Institute of Knowledge Management,

    Communication and Information Technology Ontario, Mitel Networks, and Bank of Montreal.

    Consultant, Deconcentration and Social Capital: Assessing the Impact of Relocation in Three

    Urban Neighborhoods, 2003-2005. Susan Greenbaum (Anthropology, University of South Florida,

    Principal Investigator). Advising on social capital, research design and research analysis in study of the

    residents of US Hope VI social housing projects. Supported by the (US) National Science Foundation.

    Principal Investigator, Communication Tools: Social Design of Technology. 2003-2004. Analysis of

    information flows, information brokerage, and social networks within a large organization. Student

    collaborator: Anabel Quan-Haase. Supported by Communications and Information Technology Ontario

    and Bank of Montreal

    Principal Investigator, "Wired Suburbs" 1996 - 2004. Ethnographic and survey-based study of how

    living in a new Toronto-area suburban development (Netville) with excellent broadband connectivity

    affects womens and mens relations of work and community online and offline in the home,

    neighbourhood, and non-locally. Collaborator: Keith Hampton (Annenberg School of Communication,

    University of Pennsylvania). Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of

    Canada, and Communications and Information Technology Ontario.

    Principal Investigator, "The Interplay between Social Networks and Computer-Supported

    Communication Networks" 1999-2001. Analyzes a variety of datasets studying social networks of work

    and community to discern regularities in kinds of social relationships and social networks, using different

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    kinds of communication media. Doctoral student collaborator: Emmanuel Koku. Supported by Bell

    University Laboratories.

    Co-Principal Investigator, Double Digital Divide. 2000-2001. Uses survey data from Canada and

    the U.S. to analyze the extent to which the spatial segregation of the poor and visible minorities

    reinforces their relative lack of access to computers in general and the internet in particular. Co-

    Principal-Investigator: Eric Fong. Supported by the Office of Learning Technologies (Human Resources

    Canada); Advanced Micro Devices. Student collaborators: Wenhong Chen, Melissa Kew, Rima Wilkes.

    Principal Investigator, Modeling and Developing Tools for Ad Hoc Networking: Computer,

    Communication, Work and Community." 2001-2002. How do people communicate and acquire

    knowledge in situations where they work and find community in fragmented, sparsely-knit, multiple

    social networks? Doctoral student collaborator: Anabel Quan Haase. Supported by Communication and

    Information Technology Ontario and Mitel Networks.

    Co-Investigator, Survey2000 and Survey2001, 1998-2002. Member of a team responsible for

    design and analysis of social network, internet and community questions on the National Geographic

    web survey (Millennium 2000") of 60,000 adults worldwide: their mobility, connectivity, civic

    involvement, and tastes. Similar role in follow-up study comparing web visitors/users with a control

    sample. Principal Investigator James Witte (Clemson Univ.). Collaborators on these modules: : Prof.

    Keith Hampton. Hampton (MIT); Doctoral students: Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen, Tracy Kennedy,

    Anabel Quan-Haase. Master's students collaborators: Bernard Hogan, Inna Romanovska, Nathaniel

    Simpson. Supported by the National Geographic. Society

    Principal Investigator, "Scholarly Network Studies." 1996 - 2003. Studies of how computer

    mediated communication affects scholarly interaction at two invisible colleges: an international human

    development research group (GlobeNet) and a Toronto-based network (TechNet) of computer

    scientists, social scientists, and advanced creators of computer applications. Uses survey, ethnographic

    and bibliometric analyses. Faculty Collaborator: Howard White (Drexel University). Doctoral student

    collaborators: Emmanuel Koku and Nancy Nazer. Supported by the TeleLearning Network ,the Social

    Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Policy Research Secretariat (overall trends

    analysis).

    Principal Investigator, "The Interplay between Social Networks and Computer-Supported

    Communication Networks." 1999-2001. Analyzes a variety of datasets studying social networks of work

    and community to discern regularities in kinds of social relationships and social networks, using different

    kinds of communication media. Doctoral student collaborator: Emmanuel Koku. Supported by Bell

    University Laboratories.

    Principal Investigator, "Changing Conceptualisations of Community in the Networked Society."

    2001. Identifies and analyses the variety of communities in contemporary developed nations.

    Investigates community as: local area, social networks, virtual communities, shared interests, subjective

    social identity, moral communities. Supported by Law Commission of Canada.

    Principal Investigator, "The Place of Computer-Supported Communications at Work: Cerise and

    Indigo 1992-2000. Design and analysis of a series of field trials, surveys and experiments on the ways

    in which people use video-enhanced computerized communication (and other communications media)

    of dispersed work sites in southern Ontario. Research encompasses other forms of communication (e.g.,

    computer-mediated learning), and includes collaborative work with sociologists, anthropologists,

    computer scientists, information scientists, communication scientists, and industrial engineers in

    universities, the private sector, and government. Co-Investigator: Caroline Haythornthwaite (University

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    of Illinois). Doctoral Student Collaborator: Laura Garton. Supported by the Natural Sciences and

    Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Information Technology Research Ctr., the Ontario

    Technology Fund, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

    Co-Investigator, Projecte Internet Catalunya 2001-2002. Analysis of a 3,000-adult survey of

    Catalans, inquiring into the relationship between Internet use and social networks, identity, self-

    enhancement, self-empowerment, and social mobilization. Collaboration with Manuel Castells (Principal

    Investigator) and Imma Tubella. Supported by Generalitat [Government] de Catalunya and the

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

    Co-Investigator, Teleworkers: Work, Organizational, Domestic and Community Relations. 1993 -

    2000 . Study of teleworkers in a large Canadian high-technology organization. What kinds of professional

    and managerial jobs are amenable to teleworking [telecommuting]? How does teleworking affect

    involvements at work and after work? Principal Investigator, Janet Salaff. Doctoral Student Collaborator:

    Dimitrina Dimitrova. Supported by Bell Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

    of Canada.

    Principal Investigator, "Social Networks of Alcohol and Drug Users" Study. 1988 - 1996. Literature

    review of how community social networks affect alcohol and drug use. Survey and interview-based

    study of the socially-close ties of users of alcohol and illicit drugs. How social networks affect the use of

    such substances. 225 respondents interviewed in 1993. Technical report of the Canadian National

    Alcohol and Drug Survey. Supported by Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare.

    Consultant, "Networks, Community and Ethnicity in Bulgaria." 1990 - 1992. Investigations of

    community in Sofia and interethnic relations throughout Bulgaria. In cooperation with the Inst. of

    Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

    Director, "Structural Analysis Programme." 1979-1982. The Programme was a collaborative effort

    by a research group of Univ. of Toronto sociologists. Its approach emphasized the discovery of

    underlying structural patterns, and how these patterns affected behavior. The Programme sponsored

    research from this common structural approach into a wide range of substantive areas. A book of

    articles principally derived from the program was published by Cambridge University Press in 1988:

    Social Structures: A Network Approach.

    Director, "Community Ties and Support Systems." 1971-1974. Analysis of the structure of urban

    networks of Torontonians and how these ties provide assistance in dealing with contingencies. Primary

    data source is 845 interviews with adult residents of the Borough of East York. Additional fieldwork and

    participant - observation in the use of network resources at the Neighbourhood Information Centre,

    East York. Supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Canada Council and

    Bell Canada.

    Director, "Public Participation in Transportation Decision-Making." 1973-1976. Policy review of

    strategy and tactics of new process of wider decision-making in transportation planning in North

    America and a catalogue of cases of recent experiences of public