Barry Wellman
April 14, 2015
CAREER AND
COORDINATES3EDUCATION3CAREER3DEMOGRAPHICS3SUMMARY4Barry
Wellman8HONORS15PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND
ACTIVITIES17EDITORIAL19RESEARCH21RESEARCH
AWARDS25PUBLICATIONS29REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES29REFEREED CHAPTERS
IN BOOKS36BOOKS and SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES43NON-REFEREED
ARTICLES44REPORTS49NON-REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS50INFORMAL
ARTICLES52BOOK REVIEWS OF56PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS /
CONFERENCES57KEYNOTE CONFERENCE ADDRESSES67INFORMAL TALKS76TEACHING
AND MENTORING79DISSERTATIONS, POST-DOCS AND VISITORS80UNIVERSITY OF
TORONTO AFFAIRS83PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS84CONFERENCE and SESSION
(CO-) ORGANIZING84REFEREEING86CONSULTING87MEDIA90
CAREER AND COORDINATESCo-Director, NetLab NetworkLim Chong Yah
Professor of Communication and New Media, National University of
SingaporeProfessor Emeritus of Sociology, University of
TorontoFellow, Royal Society of CanadaInternational Coordinator,
International Network for Social Network AnalysisSenior Research
Fellow, Pew Internet and Society Project Executive Committee,
Knowledge Media Design Institute [KMDI], University of TorontoNorth
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-International Scholarly Advisory Committee, Institute
of Empirical Social Science (IESSR), Xi'an Jiaotong University
(XJTU), 2009-2013 Faculty Associate, University of Toronto
Transportation Research Institute, 2013-2015
COORDINATESNetLab Network Faculty of Information University of
Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S 3G6 email: [email protected]
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellmanTwitter: @barrywellman Skype:
barry.wellmanEDUCATIONP.S.33, Bronx; JHS 79, Bronx (Special
Progress class)Bronx High School of Science, 1959 (Honors)B.A.,
Lafayette College, 1963, Honors History; magna cum laude; Phi Beta
Kappa; ranked 1 in Arts & ScienceM.A. 1965; Harvard University,
Sociology (Department of Social Relations)Ph.D. 1969; Harvard
University, Sociology (Department of Social Relations)CAREERNetLab
Network, 1998-Lim Chong Yah Professor of Communication and New
Media, National University of Singapore, 2015-Faculty of
Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, 2013-2014S.D. Clark
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 2006 -
2013Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1980
2013Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Community Studies,
University of Toronto, 1970-2013Director, Structural Analysis
Programme, University of Toronto, 1979 - 1982Associate Director,
Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto,
1980-1984Associate 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 - 1972Research
Sociologist, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, 1967 1969
Resident Fellow, Center for the Digital Future, Annenberg
School, University of Southern California, 2006Fellow, IBM
Institute of Knowledge Management, 2001 - 2002Visiting Professor,
School of Information Management and Systems, University of
California, Berkeley, 1999Fellow, Bellagio Center of the
Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, 1999Visiting Professor, Institute
for Urban and Regional Development, University of California,
Berkeley, 1985Fellow, Netherlands Inst. for Advanced Study in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, 1978-1979Visiting Professor,
University of Surrey, Guildford, England, 1974-1975
DEMOGRAPHICSBorn: 1942 Married Beverly Wellman 1965 Canadian and
American
SUMMARYBarry 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 directs the NetLab and is the S.D. Clark Professor at
the Department of Sociology, is a member of the Cities Centre, and
the Knowledge Media Design Institute, and is a cross-appointed
member of the Faculty of Information. He 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.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. He is the author of more than 200 articlesmany of which
have been co-authored with more than 80 scholarsand he is the
(co-)editor of three books.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
NAVEL 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 media 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 co-directs the NetLab
research network at the University of Toronto. 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.
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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 onCommunities &
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.html25. 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.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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HONORSLifetime Achievement Award, Oxford Internet Institute,
November 2014Issues 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=1862Lee 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 2014Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award, May
2014Elected to Communication and Information Technologies Council,
American Sociological Association, 2014-2016Lee 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=trueLee
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 sociologistsNominated by University of
Toronto for Social Science and Humanities Research Council of
Canada Gold Medal for Outstanding Social Science Research, May
2011Yu 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), 2009-2013Fellow, 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,
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. First
time this prize was been awarded.Elected Fellow, Royal Society of
Canada, 2007Appointed S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University
of Toronto, Fall 2006Robert 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.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 2010Research 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 WIkipedianEditor 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 2004Website 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=992619187-5417Fellow,
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 2001Fellow, Bellagio Centre
[Rockefeller Foundation], Italy, October-November, 1999Chair,
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.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
1992-1993Dean'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 - 1984Fellow, 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 SocietyAmerican
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, 1958Varsity Letter winner in Track (mile
relay) and Cross-Country, Bronx High School of Science,
1956-1959.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIESBOARDSFounder and
Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis,
1976 - 1988. International Coordinator and Member of Executive
Committee, 1988 2013Executive Committee, Knowledge Media Design
Institute, 2012-Council Member, Liasion with Information,
Communication and Society, and Membershp Committee Membership,
Communications and Information Technologies Section, American
Sociological Association, 2014-2016Member, American Sociological
Association Task Force on Engaging Sociology, 2014-2015Faculty
Associate, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute,
2013-2015Member, American Sociological Association Social Media
Task Force, 2013-2014Advisory Board, Network of Excellence in
Internet Science, 2013-Advisory Committee, Oxford Internet
Institute Summer School in Toronto, 2012-2013Founding Board member,
Journal of e-Planning. 2011-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,
2011Board of Trustees, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy,
2010-2013.International Scholarly Advisory Committee, Institute of
Empirical Social Science (IESSR), Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU),
2009-2013Member, 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, 2008-2009Diaspora 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 Member, Steering Committee,
Knowledge Media Design Institute, 1999 2008Founding 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 2003Executive 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,
1995-1997Founding 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, MuenchenBoard
Member, Community Research Committee, International Sociological
Association 1981 1986Council 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
EDITORIALCURRENT Co-Edtior, Two Special issues on Social
Networks in East and Southeast Asia, American Behavioral Scientist,
2013-2015Co-Editor, Special issue on Networked Work, American
Behavioral Scientist 59, 4, 2012-2015a Co-Editor, Special issue on
Networked Research, American Behavioral Scientist 59, 5,
2012-2015Co-Editor, Special issue on Social Influence and Digital
Media, American Behavioral Scientist, 58, 10, 2012-2014North
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=1862Editorial
Board, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2013-Editorial
Board, Emerald Studies in Media and Communications, 2013-Editorial
Board, Mobile Media & Communication, 2012-Editorial Board,
Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, 2011-Editorial Board, Social
Network Analysis and Mining, 2010 2014Advisory Board, Encyclopedia
of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2010-2014International
Advisory Board, Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, 2009
-Editorial Board, Sociological Focus, 2009-2014Editorial 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.2009Editorial 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 - 2015Founding Editorial Board, International
Journal of Internet Science, 2004 -Editorial Board, Mobile
Communication Research Annual, 2006 -PASTFounding Editor,
Connections, 1976 1988.Co-Editor, Special issue on Open
Collaboration and Wiki Research, American Behavioral Scientist,
2011-2013Co-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 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 -
2008Advisory Board, "Structural Analysis" monograph series:
Academic Press, 1982 - 1986; Cambridge University Press, 1986 -
1991.Advisory Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,
1983 - 1997Editorial Advisor, Journal of Social Issues, Two special
issues on "Social Support," 1983 1984.Editorial Board, "Personal
Relationships" book series, Sage Publications, 1983 -
1986Consulting 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 - 1995Editorial Board, Sociological
Forum, 1994 - 2003.Founding Contributing Editor, New Media and
Society, 1997 2006Editorial 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 - 2006Working Paper / Technical Reports Editor
in Chief, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 2003 2006Technology and
Community Editor, Encyclopedia of Community (Sage, 2003)Editorial
Board, Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2003 -
2004Senior 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).RESEARCHCURRENTPrincipal 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 LinCo-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.
2013-2015. 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.PASTNetwork 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
(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
MontrealPrincipal 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 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. SocietyPrincipal
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 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 involvement. Supported by the Ontario Ministry of
Transport.Director, "High-Rise, Low-Rise, Community Ties."
1972-1973. Analysis of the East York data, investigating
differences between inhabitants of high-rise apartment buildings
and of single-family dwelling on a number of measures of social
relations and health. The analysis used partial correlation
techniques to differentiate between effects related to the
different social characteristics of the residents of the two types
of dwelling units and effects related to the housing context
itself. Supported by the Central Mortgage and Housing
Corporation.Co-Director, "The Yorklea Study of Mental Health in the
Community." 1967-1969. Principal responsibility for the design,
conduct and analysis of an 845- respondent survey. Effects of
social characteristics (e.g., gender, socioeconomic status),
socially-close interpersonal ties and social network structure on
the prevalence of stress and mental distress and the use of formal
and informal supportive resources. The sociological data formed the
basis for the "Community Ties and Support Systems" study (see
above). Supported by the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry.Director,
"Self-Conceptions and Urban Participation of Black and White
Adolescents. 1969-1971. Computer-based analysis of the relationship
of social positions, social contexts and reference groups with
self-conceptions and attitudinal, spatial and relational
cosmopolitanism. Further analysis of School Integration Research
Project. Supported by the Canada Council.Research Associate,
"School Integration Research. Harvard Graduate School of Education,
1965-1968. Relationship of integration experience to selected
sociological variables. Advisor on research philosophy and design;
major contributor to preparation of questionnaire and codebook;
construction of intensive interview and codebook concerned with
perception of self, school and race; supervisor of interviewing and
coding. Construction of "Who Am I Dictionary" for computer-based
content and analysis of self-conceptions. Supported by the Carnegie
Corporation and National Science Foundation.RESEARCH AWARDS [Small
grants not included]CURRENT SUPPORTGreen 2.0: A Middleware Platform
for Enabling Socio-Technical Analytics of Green Buildings. CANARIE,
2013-2015. Co-Investigator, $480,000. Co-Investigator, Networked
Individualism: A Comparative Study of Social Networks, Digital
Media, International Ties, and Privacy 2015-2019. Co-Investigator.
$153,358PREVIOUS SUPPORT"Community Ties and Support Systems."
1971-1973. Ontario Ministry of Health, $32,500; Laidlaw Foundation,
$18,000; Canada Council, $4,911."High-Rise, Low-Rise: The Effects
of High-Density Living on Community Ties." 1972. Canadian Ministry
of State for Urban Affairs, $4,985."The Multiple Communities of
Modern Urbanites." 1972-1973. Urban Environments Study, Bell
Canada, $6,000."Accessing Resources in the Community." 1977. Urban
Housing Markets Program, Center for Urban and Community Studies,
Univ. of Toronto. $8,510."Community Needs and Support Networks in
East York." 1977. Canadian Ministry of Manpower and Immigration.
$67,384."East York Community Resources Project." 1978. Canadian
Ministry of Manpower and Immigration. $12,816."East York Community
Ties Study." 1978. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada. $9,923."East York Social Network Study." 1978--Connaught
Fund, Univ. of Toronto, $11,350; 1980--Center for Studies of
Metropolitan Problems (NIMH), US$32,628; 1980-1983--Structural
Analysis Programme, Univ. of Toronto, $5,000."Community Through the
Life-Course." 1981. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, Strategic Grant for the Study of Population Aging,
$27,210; Gerontology Programme, Univ. of Toronto, $3,000."The Place
of the Neighborhood in the Overall Community." 1982. Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $15,031."The
Influence of Social Network Characteristics on the Availability of
Support." 1984. Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.
$21,000."Delivering Social Support Through Social Networks."
1986-1987. Canadian Ministry of Welfare, National Welfare Grants.
$26,378."Integrating the Analysis of Network Structures, Dyadic
Ties and Personal Attributes: Implications of Personal Communities
and Social Support." 1987. Social Sciences and Humanities Council
of Canada. $13,280. "Aging and Changes in Family, Occupational and
Residential Status: A Longitudinal Study of Consequences for Social
Networks and Social Support." 1988. Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, Strategic Grant program for the Study
of Population Aging, $17,655. Gerontology Programme, Univ. of
Toronto, $1,000. "The Network Basis of Alcohol and Drug Use:
Literature Review and Research Design." 1988. Health and Welfare
Canada, $8,001."The Implications of Telephone Networks for Social
Networks." 1989. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, Strategic Grant program for the Human Context of Science
and Technology. $7,790."The National Alcohol and Drug Study:
Literature Review, Descriptive Report and Ancillary Reports." (with
Scot Wortley and Beverly Wellman), 1989 - 1992. Health and Welfare
Canada, $70,000."Supportive Community Networks: Implications for
Mental Health and Mental Disorders." 1989 - 1990. Health and
Welfare Canada, $11,204."Video-Enhanced Computer Supported
Cooperative Work." (with Marilyn Mantei, Ronald Baecker and William
Buxton), 1989 - 1991. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada, $370,002."Kinship in Social Networks." 1991.
Demographic Review Secretariat, Health and Welfare Canada.
$5,000."Assessing the Impact of `Global Village' Telecommunications
on Community and Social Support." 1990 -1991. Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, Strategic Grant program for
Science and Technology Ethics and Policy, $32,036."The Impact of
Social Networks on Alcohol and Drug Use." 1991-1993. National
Health Research and Development Program $15,000, Health Promotion
Directorate, Health and Welfare Canada. $26,685."Using Personal
Community Networks: Comparative Analyses." 1991 - 1994. Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. General
Research Grant, $101,000."Analyses of Social Networks: Supportive,
Virtual and Abusive." 1994. Summer Experience Development Program,
Human Resources Development Canada, $8,160."Ontario TelePresence
Project." (with William Buxton, Ron Baecker, Marilyn Mantei), 1990
- 1991. Information Technology Research Ctr., $62,150. 1991 - 1996,
Ontario Ministry of Science and Technology, IBM, Bell Canada, etc.
$2,600,000+."The Social Implications of the Virtual Workplace."
1994-1995. Centre for Information Technology Innovation; Industry,
Sciences and Technology Canada, $12,650"The Place of
Computer-Supported Communication in Co-Workers' Relationships: The
Interplay of Computer Networks, Video Networks and Social
Networks." 1992-1995. Social Science and Humanities Research
Council of Canada Strategic Grant program for Science and
Technology Ethics and Policy, $171,716.Halbert Exchange Fellowship
to the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 1995. $5,000."The Personal
Networks of Communities and Workgroups." 1994-1997. Social Science
and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $113,812."Teleworking
Employees: Networking and Work-Family Linkages." (Co-investigator
with Janet Salaff). 1995-1998. Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, $114,970; Bell Canada, $207,980."The
Policy Implications of Computer-Supported Communication Networks of
Work and Community." 1995-1998. Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Cana