Barry Wellman
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Canadian sociologist
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- Bachelors Sociology Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barry Wellman is an American-Canadian sociologist and is the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. 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. He has written or co-authored more than 300 articles, chapters, reports and books. Wellman was a professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto for 46 years, from 1967 to 2013, including a five-year stint as S.D. Clark Professor.
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Published Works
- Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support (1990) (1929)
- Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? (2001) (1846)
- The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers (1979) (1388)
- Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking (2001) (1337)
- Social Structures: A Network Approach (1989) (1282)
- Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community (1996) (1267)
- Studying Online Social Networks (2006) (1192)
- Structural analysis: From method and metaphor to theory and substance. (1988) (1003)
- Computer Networks As Social Networks (2001) (904)
- Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb (2003) (879)
- The Internet in everyday life (2002) (857)
- The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism (2006) (749)
- Social Support, Life Events, and Depression (1985) (691)
- Asynchronous learning networks as a virtual classroom (1997) (657)
- Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles (1983) (647)
- Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments. (2002) (633)
- An electronic group is virtually a social network. (1997) (595)
- Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community (2011) (576)
- Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities (1979) (568)
- The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science (2008) (558)
- Geography of Twitter networks (2012) (557)
- Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism (2001) (518)
- Networks in the Global Village (1998) (511)
- Networked: The New Social Operating System (2012) (487)
- Work, Friendship, and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization (1998) (413)
- Network Capital in a Multi-level World: Getting Support in Personal Communities (2001) (386)
- Experiences in the use of a media space (1991) (379)
- Are personal communities local? A Dumptarian reconsideration☆ (1996) (376)
- Does Distance Matter in the Age of the Internet? (2008) (343)
- Social Network Analysis: An Introduction 1 (2010) (324)
- Health care and consumer choice: medical and alternative therapies. (1997) (313)
- A decade of network change: Turnover, persistence and stability in personal communities☆ (1997) (309)
- Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-aided Sociograms (2007) (292)
- Brothers' Keepers: Situating Kinship Relations in Broader Networks of Social Support (1989) (291)
- Collecting Social Network Data to Study Social Activity-Travel Behavior: An Egocentric Approach (2008) (291)
- THE GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE - WITHIN AND BETWEEN COUNTRIES (2004) (280)
- Strength of Internet Ties, The (2006) (279)
- It's not who you know, it's how you know them: Who exchanges what with whom? (2007) (278)
- Did distance matter before the Internet?: Interpersonal contact and support in the 1970s (2007) (269)
- Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size From 2002 to 2007 (2010) (260)
- Statistical Models for Social Support Networks (1993) (256)
- Long Distance Community in the Network Society (2001) (247)
- Instant Messaging for Collaboration: A Case Study of a High-Tech Firm (2005) (240)
- Studying On-Line Social Networks (1999) (236)
- Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community (2008) (225)
- Net-Surfers Don’t Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities (2018) (218)
- Social Impacts of Electronic Mail in Organizations: A Review of the Research Literature (1995) (213)
- Living Networked On and Offline (1999) (211)
- The Network City (1973) (207)
- Examining Community in the Digital Neighborhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb (1999) (189)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships: Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet (2006) (188)
- Does citation reflect social structure?: Longitudinal evidence from the Globenet interdisciplinary research group (2004) (186)
- The Three Ages of Internet Studies: Ten, Five and Zero Years Ago (2004) (185)
- For a social network analysis of computer networks: a sociological perspective on collaborative work and virtual community (1996) (179)
- It's about time: how, why, and when networks change (1997) (160)
- WHICH TYPES OF TIES AND NETWORKS PROVIDE WHAT KINDS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT (1991) (151)
- Connected Lives: The Project1 (2006) (151)
- How Far and with Whom Do People Socialize? (2008) (150)
- Connected seniors: how older adults in East York exchange social support online and offline (2017) (144)
- The Network Community: An Introduction to Networks in the 19 Global Village (1999) (141)
- Community: from neighborhood to network (2005) (140)
- The Place of Kinfolk in Personal Community Networks (1990) (136)
- Canada as Social Structure: Social Network Analysis and Canadian Sociology [1] (2001) (133)
- The Networked Household (2007) (131)
- The community question re-evaluated (1987) (124)
- Social networks and social support. (1985) (124)
- The not so Global Village of Netville (2008) (121)
- The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World (2008) (121)
- Domestic Affairs and Network Relations (1992) (111)
- Domestic Affairs and Network Relations (1992) (111)
- Netville Online and Offline (1999) (110)
- Complementary and alternative medicine : challenge and change (2000) (110)
- Moving forward? Complementary and alternative practitioners seeking self-regulation. (2004) (108)
- Dividing the Grey Divide: Deconstructing Myths About Older Adults’ Online Activities, Skills, and Attitudes (2018) (108)
- Social Networks, Kinship, and Community in Eastern Europe (1994) (107)
- Netting Scholars (2001) (105)
- Men in networks: Private communities, domestic friendships. (1992) (102)
- Does Social Capital Pay Off More Within or Between Ethnic Groups? Analyzing Job Searchers in Five Toronto Ethnic Groups (2003) (99)
- Who seeks alternative health care? A profile of the users of five modes of treatment. (1997) (97)
- The network is personal: Introduction to a special issue of Social Networks (2007) (96)
- AGENCY IN SOCIAL ACTIVITY INTERACTIONS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN TIME AND SPACE (2008) (86)
- Designing the Internet for a networked society (2002) (85)
- Responses of established healthcare to the professionalization of complementary and alternative medicine in Ontario. (2004) (80)
- Living Networked in a Wired World (1999) (79)
- Work relationships and media use: A social network analysis (1995) (78)
- Personal Communities: The World According to Me (2014) (75)
- Social network analysis of historical communities: Some questions from the present for the past (1996) (74)
- EGYPT: THE FIRST INTERNET REVOLT? (2015) (73)
- Lost and Saved . . . Again: The Moral Panic about the Loss of Community Takes Hold of Social Media (2018) (65)
- An egocentric network tale: comment on Bien et al. (1991) (1993) (63)
- Searching for Culture - High and Low (2007) (62)
- How far can complementary and alternative medicine go? The case of chiropractic and homeopathy. (2006) (61)
- From Little Boxes to Loosely-Bounded Networks: The Privatization and Domestication of Community (1999) (58)
- Domestic work, paid work and network (1984) (57)
- Challenges in Collecting Personal Network Data: The Nature of Personal Network Analysis (2007) (57)
- Distance patterns of personal networks in four countries: a comparative study (2013) (54)
- Small Town in the Internet Society: Chapleau Is No Longer an Island (2010) (53)
- Scholarly Networks as Learning Communities: The Case of TechNet (2002) (52)
- Minding the Cyber-gap: The Internet and Social Inequality (2007) (51)
- Changing Connectivity: A Future History of Y2.03K (2000) (51)
- Digital inequalities 2.0: Legacy inequalities in the information age (2020) (50)
- From Social Support to Social Network (1985) (49)
- The Personal is Social (1992) (44)
- Studying the Internet through the Ages (2011) (44)
- Is Dunbar's number up? (2012) (43)
- The Capitalist Firm in the 21st Century: Emerging Patterns (2000) (43)
- The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties (2018) (40)
- Summary of Research on Informant Accuracy in Network Data, 11 and on the Reverse Small World Problem (2003) (38)
- Studying personal communities in East York (1982) (38)
- How to Use SPSS to Study Ego-Centered Networks (1999) (37)
- Networked Influence in Social Media (2014) (37)
- Integrating individual, relational and structural analysis (1991) (35)
- A Plague of Viruses: Biological, Computer and Marketing (2001) (34)
- Older Adults on Digital Media in a Networked Society (2019) (33)
- The Internet in Daily Life (2019) (33)
- Older Adults' Use of Medical and Alternative Care (2001) (32)
- The role of the state in the social inclusion of complementary and alternative medical occupations. (2004) (32)
- Connecting Communities: On and Offline (2004) (32)
- Opening the Door to Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Self-Regulation in Ontario (2002) (29)
- Designing the Internet for a Networked Society: Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism (2002) (28)
- Charting and Bridging Digital Divides (2003) (28)
- Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices to Challenge Surveillance (2002) (26)
- The Network Community: An Introduction (2018) (25)
- Social Connections in China: Networking Guanxi (2002) (25)
- How Canadians ' Use of the Internet Affects Social Life and Civic Participation (2007) (24)
- The Mobile-izing Japanese : Connecting to the Internet by PC and Webphone in Yamanashi (2003) (23)
- Understanding communities in an age of social media: the good, the bad, and the complicated (2016) (23)
- Is there a place in cyberspace: the uses and users of public Internet terminals (2002) (22)
- If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones (2013) (22)
- NET AND JET (2009) (22)
- Local Virtuality in a High-Tech Networked Organization (2004) (21)
- Beyond bowling together (2000) (21)
- Social structure, cultural identity, and personal autonomy in the practice of the internet: the network society in Catalonia (2004) (21)
- Neighboring in Netville: (2003) (20)
- Weaving family connections on-and offline: the turn to networked individualism (2018) (19)
- Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia I (2015) (18)
- Local Virtuality in an Organization: Implications for Community of Practice (2005) (18)
- Are older adults networked individuals? Insights from East Yorkers’ network structure, relational autonomy, and digital media use (2018) (18)
- The Elements of Personal Communities (2018) (18)
- Scholarly Networks as Learning Communities (2004) (17)
- I Am a Student (1971) (17)
- The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan (2008) (17)
- Communities and technologies: an approach to foster social capital? (2004) (17)
- Digital inequalities 3.0: Emergent inequalities in the information age (2020) (17)
- The Yorklea study of urban mental health: symptoms, problems and life events. (1969) (16)
- The Triple Revolution (2012) (15)
- The Wired — and Wireless — Japanese: Webphones, PCs and Social Networks (2005) (15)
- The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices (2010) (14)
- Sociological Rob: How Rob Kling Brought Computing and Sociology Together (2004) (14)
- Medical Pluralism and the Future of CAM (2014) (14)
- Media use and work relationships in a research group (1994) (13)
- NAVEL Gazing: Studying a Networked Scholarly Organization (2012) (13)
- Networking Scholars in a Networked Organization (2014) (13)
- The New Social Operating System of Networked Individualism (2012) (13)
- How to Use SAS to Study Egocentric Networks (1992) (12)
- The Culture of Fitness and the Growth of CAM (2014) (12)
- The social affordances of e-mail (1999) (12)
- On Negotiating Reality (1969) (12)
- Context and Intent in Call Processing (2003) (12)
- Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries (2018) (11)
- Public participation in transportation planning (1977) (11)
- Networked Work and Network Research (2015) (10)
- COMMUNITY - NETWORK - COMMUNICATION: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. (1972) (10)
- The Relational Self-Portrait (2014) (10)
- Relationships, Community, and Networked Individuals (2013) (10)
- Social Identities in Black and White (1971) (10)
- The networked question in the digital era: How do networked, bounded, and limited individuals connect at different stages in the life course? (2020) (9)
- Getting Ahead in Singapore: How Neighborhoods, Gender, and Ethnicity Affect Enrollment into Elite Schools (2019) (9)
- A computer network is a social network (1998) (9)
- Networks of distance and media: A case study of a high-tech firm (2004) (9)
- How Far can Scholarly Networks Go? Examining the Relationships between Distance, Disciplines, Motivations, and Clusters (2015) (9)
- The effects of multiple team membership on networking online and offline: using multilevel multiple membership modeling (2016) (8)
- Sociologists Engaging with Computers (2006) (8)
- A comparative study of social interaction frequencies among social network members in five countries (2021) (8)
- The spatiality of personal networks in four countries : a comparative study (2012) (8)
- The Community Question: The Intimate Networks (2016) (8)
- 10. Community Ties and Support Systems: From Intimacy to Support (1973) (8)
- Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia II (2015) (8)
- Changing Ties in a Far-Flung, Multidisciplinary Research Network (2015) (8)
- Understanding Sequencing in Social Network Communications (2012) (7)
- Virtual community: introducing a new SIGGROUP focus area (1998) (7)
- Dealing with Community Data: A Report on the CSCW 2000 Workshop (2000) (7)
- Rural and Urban Differences in the Internet Society—Real and Relatively Important (2010) (6)
- Social Media and Society: Introduction to the Special Issue (2017) (6)
- Networked Individualism, East Asian Style (2016) (6)
- Using SAS to Convert Ego-Centred Networks to Whole Networks (1996) (6)
- The Characteristics of Cam Users: A Complex Picture (2014) (6)
- The differential impact of network connectedness and size on researchers’ productivity and influence (2020) (5)
- Counting on community in cyberspace (1999) (5)
- The Therapeutic Relationship under Fire (2014) (5)
- Tracking geekus unixus: an explorers' report from the national geographic website (1999) (5)
- Jane Jacobs the Torontonian (2006) (4)
- Networked individualism: how the personalized internet, ubiquitous connectivity, and the turn to social networks can affect learning analytics (2012) (4)
- Research issues in the design of online communities (1999) (4)
- Networking Network Analysts: How INSNA (the International Network for Social Network Analysis) Came to Be (2007) (4)
- Can You Take It with You? Mobility, ICTs and Work-Life Balance (2017) (4)
- Personal communities as sources of social support. (2009) (4)
- The Social Network Revolution (2012) (4)
- Studying Social Networks and Social Support in the Netherlands. (1992) (3)
- Different strokes from different folks : Which type of ties provide what kind of social support? (1989) (3)
- A comparative study of contact frequencies among social network members in five countries (2020) (3)
- Rethinking Models of Health and Illness Behaviour (2014) (3)
- Changes in Characteristics of CAM Users Over Time (2014) (3)
- THE CONTENTIOUS INTERNET (2010) (3)
- Integrating Textual and Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences (1990) (2)
- A collection of tributes to Linton C. Freeman (2018) (2)
- Network Analysis: Structural Form and Social Behavior@@@Perspectives on Social Network Research. (1981) (2)
- The gift economy: David Cheal, (London: Routledge, 1988) 228 pp., C$75.00 (1990) (2)
- Tit-for-Tat and All That: Reciprocity in East York in the 1970s (2007) (2)
- All the lonely people? (2020) (2)
- Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties. By Charles Tilly. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2005. Pp. xiii+269. $72.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). (2008) (2)
- Book Review:The Healing Web: Social Networks and Human Survival. Marc Pilisuk, Susan Hillier Parks (1988) (2)
- Older Adults and Information and Communication Technologies in the Global North (2020) (2)
- Research issues in the design of online communities: report on the CHI 99 workshop (1999) (1)
- Living up to Promises: Network Studies Come of Age@@@Social Structures: A Network Approach. (1990) (1)
- Network Analysis Comes of Age@@@Social Structures: A Network Approach (1989) (1)
- The looming battle of a networked world (2012) (1)
- CAM practitioners seeking legitimacy (2010) (1)
- The original social network (2015) (1)
- The Professionalisation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2008) (1)
- Chapter 57:Networked Scholarship (2006) (1)
- N3: THE INTERSECTION OF TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS, COMMUNICATION NETWORKS, AND COMMUNITY NETWORKS. IN: SOCIAL CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT (2002) (1)
- Unaccompanied minors’ needs and the child welfare response (2020) (1)
- Venture Labor| Fifteen Implications of Networked Scholar Research for Networked Work (2017) (1)
- Always—and Uniquely—Chuck Tilly (2008) (1)
- Review: The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices, edited by Rich Ling and Scott W. Campbell. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009. 271pp. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781412808095 (2010) (1)
- Introduction to the 2015 social media and society conference (2015) (1)
- The role of communication technology across the life course: A field guide to social support in East York (2021) (1)
- The Dark Social Web: Responsibility, Manipulation, and Participation in Global Digital Spaces (2021) (1)
- Maintaining Ties Near and Far: Agency and Social Accessibility in Personal Communities (2007) (1)
- Success and Self-Conception: The Impact of Academic Grades on the Student Role Identities of Black and White Adolescents. (1971) (1)
- Venture Labor| Fifteen Implications of Networked Scholar Research for Networked Work (2017) (1)
- The company you keep: How network disciplinary diversity enhances the productivity of researchers (2021) (0)
- A comparative study of contact frequencies and modes among social network members in four countries. (2018) (0)
- How to Operate in a Networked World, Now and in the Future (2012) (0)
- Educating Computer Scientists About Social Science (2009) (0)
- Interlude: A Day in a Connected Life (2012) (0)
- A Network Pilgrim’s Progress: Twenty-Six Realizations in Fifty-Five Years (2021) (0)
- International mobility and transnational media use : Evidence from East York (2020) (0)
- Integrating Textual and Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences (1990) (0)
- The Future of Networked Individualism (2012) (0)
- STRATEGY AND TACTICS FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN NORTH AMERICA (1974) (0)
- Despite the lack of physical space, an ALN's virtual facilities allow students to exchange emotional support, information, and a sense of belonging. Asynchronous Learning Networks as a (1997) (0)
- SOCIAL IMPLICATION OF THE INTERNET DIFFUSION IN RURAL COMMUNITIES OF LITHUANIA (2005) (0)
- Using social network analysis to study computer networks (tutorial) (1997) (0)
- Linking Distributed Network Structure to Rationales for Participating: The Case of the GRAND Scholarly Network (2012) (0)
- Books/Livres (1999) (0)
- The Mobile Revolution (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (2006) (0)
- How Twitter Makes the Internet More Local (2012) (0)
- Book Review (1992) (0)
- Discourse / Discours - Personal Communities as Sources of Social Support (2009) (0)
- Comment on Siddique and Turk (2008) (0)
- Tit-for-tat and all that: reciprocity among East Yorkers (2004) (0)
- CROSSING SOCIAL BOUNDARIES: COSMOPOLITANISM AMONG BLACK AND WHITE ADOLESCENTS (2016) (0)
- RESEARCH ROUNDUP ISSUE CONTENTS (2003) (0)
- The Unbounded Community: Neighborhood Life and Social Structure in New York City, 1830-1875.Kenneth A. Scherzer (1993) (0)
- Social scientists in cyberspace: report on the founding conference of the association for internet researchers (2000) (0)
- Special Issue Part II (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (1992) (0)
- STUDY SOCIAL ACTIVITY-TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR: AN EGOCENTRED APPROACH (2005) (0)
- The NetLab Network (2019) (0)
- How Networked Individualism Works (2012) (0)
- Reasons for Using CAM (2014) (0)
- CITAMS as a transfield: introduction to the special issue (2018) (0)
- Interlude: The Conversation Never Ends (2012) (0)
- Editorial board (2002) (0)
- EXECUTIVE BRIEF 4 Engaging the Dragon: Developing Sustainable Canada-China Relations through Policy Dialogue OPENING FEATURE 6 Interview with His Excellency Lu Shumin, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Canada (2006) (0)
- Referees 2005 (2005) (0)
- How Networked is a Networked Organization (2013) (0)
- Small Town in the Global Village: Chapleau Has Joined the Wider World (2008) (0)
- Digital Automation and AI: Trajectories and Cultures in and Outside the Workplace (2022) (0)
- The need to demonstrate efficacy and safety: the views of complementary/alternative medicine leaders (2010) (0)
- Communities and Digital Media in a Networked World (2018) (0)
- The spatiality and frequency of interaction of personal networks in four countries : a comparative study (2011) (0)
- Articles (1997) (0)
- Aging with Technology: Barriers and Opportunities (2018) (0)
- Networks in Information: An Interactive Engagement of Theoretical and Analytical Approaches (2014) (0)
- Book Review: The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis (2014) (0)
- The Internet Revolution (2012) (0)
- Using Multiple Membership Multilevel Models to Examine Multilevel Networks in Networked Organizations (2014) (0)
- Do Networks Support? A Structural Perspective. (1980) (0)
- Reflections From the Field of New Media and Sociology (2020) (0)
- Community--Network--Communication: An Annotated Bibliography. Exchange Bibliography Nos. 282-283. (1972) (0)
- Book Review:Network Analysis: Studies in Human Interaction. Jeremy Boissevain, J. Clyde Mitchell (1975) (0)
- Networks, Hacking and Media CITAMS@30 (2018) (0)
- Thriving as a Networked Individual (2012) (0)
- Net, Jet, and All That: Spinning Glocalized Networks in Chinese Canadian Businesses (2008) (0)
- Calls/Appels (1993) (0)
- Personal Network Analysis Challenges in Collecting Personal Network Data: The Nature of (2010) (0)
- Children ' s Services Networks (2003) (0)
- Journals/Reviews/Reports (2009) (0)
- CAM and the State (2010) (0)
- The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis, by Zachary P. Neal (2012). New York and London: Routledge. 255 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐262‐01719‐0 (Cloth $146, $42 Paper, $37 Kindle). (2014) (0)
- On a Manifesto for Sociologists I (1969) (0)
- Introduction to Volume 18: The M in CITAMS@30: Media Sociology (2018) (0)
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