Networked by Barry Wellman

Networked by Barry Wellman

How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming--and expanding--social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking.Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of networked individualism liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks.Rainie and Wellman outline the triple revolution that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals.

Barry Wellman learned to keypunch in 1965 and started chatting online in 1976. Now the head of the University of Toronto's NetLab, he's a leading scholar of cybersociety, community, and social network analysis. Prof. Wellman has pioneered understanding of both communities and computer networks as social networks. He founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis, chaired the Community section of the American Sociological Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Association for Internet Research. He's written more than 200 articles and edited two other books. His website has received 20,000 hits in three years.

Caroline Haythornthwaite is a faculty member at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Coordinator of the Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies. Before returning to full-time study, she spent over 10 years in software development as a programmer, systems analyst, and software development manager. Her research focuses on how people work and learn together at a distance via computer technology and the Internet, and examines what combinations of computer media, and work and social communications build ties and social networks online. Current projects include examination of learning networks and community ties among distance learners, and processes of knowledge co-construction among members of distributed research teams.

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ISBN 13	9780262017190
ISBN 10	0262017199
Titel	Networked
Autor	Lee Rainie
Serie	Networked
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	MIT Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-04-27
Seitenanzahl	376
Preise	Winner of Honorable Mention, 2012 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2012, Winner of Honorable Mention, 2012 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2012, Winner of Honorable Mention, 2012 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2012
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