"Netville:
The Wired Suburb"
Research Personnel:
Keith Hampton, Alexandra Marin, Barry Wellman
Description:
Ethnographic and
survey-based study of how living in a new Toronto-area suburban development
("Netville") with excellent broadband connectivity affects women's and men's
relations of work and community online and offline in the home, neighbourhood,
and non-locally. Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, Bell Canada University Laboratories, and Communications and Information
Technology Ontario.