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Cyber Society
· Building a Collaborative Environment
· Canadian Network/Structural Analysis
· The Double Digital Divide
· The Internet in Everyday Life
· Living Networked in a Wired World
· Knowledge Acquistion in Loosely-Coupled Organizations: Scholarly Citation
Networks Meet Social Networks
· Media Use in a World of Unified Communication
· National Geographic "Survey 2000": Social
Networks, Geographical Mobility, and Internet Use
· "Netville": The Wired Suburb
· The Place of Computer-Supported Communications in Work and Community: Cavecat
and Telepresence
· Scholarly Networks as Loosely-Coupled Organizations On and Off Line
· Survey 2001: The Impact of the Internet on the Networked Society
· Teleworkers: Work, Organizational, Domestic and Community Relations
Network Society
· Community
Ties and Support Systems
· High-Rise, Low-Rise, Community Ties
· Latino and Anglo Families in the Los Angeles Area
· National Alcohol and Drug Study
· Networks, Community and Ethnicity in Bulgaria
· Personal Rules for Relationships
· Public Participation in Transportation Decision-Making
· Reciprocity in Real Life: The East York Studies
· School Integration Research
· Self-Concepts and Urban Participation of Black and White Adolescents
· Social Networks of Alcohol and Drug Users
· Social Support as Social Capital in Personal Communities: "The
East York Study"
· Structural Analysis Programme
· The Yorklea Study of Mental Health in the Community
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Building a Collaborative Environment
Research Personnel:
Mark Chignell, Gale Moore, Monica Schrafael, Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan
Description:
Design, construction
and analysis of an Internet-based collaborative working environment. Supported
by Bell University Laboratories.
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Canadian Network/Structural Analysis
Research Personnel:
David Tindall (British Columbia), Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase (Toronto)
Description:
We are preparing
a review article for a special stocktaking issue of the _Canadian Journal
of Sociology_ on network and structural analytic studies in Canada during
the past quarter-century
The Double Digital Divide
Research Personnel:
Eric Fong, Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase, Rima Wilkes, Melissa Kew (Toronto)
Description:
Given that
people learn how to use computers and the internet through hands-on mentoring,
it is probable that differential access to mentors will affect the acquisition
of useful computing skills. People without these skills will be especially
at risk when they live and work in neighborhoods and work groups where few
others have such skills. The "digital divide" describes differences in useful
access to computing and the internet (by socioeconomic status, ethnicity,
gender, life-cycle, location, etc.). Hence the "double digital divide" refers
to the particular difficulties that people without such skills may suffer
if they are located in the "wrong" neighborhoods and work groups. We use
already-collected, geo-coded census and survey data to investigate this.
Supported by
the Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Canada
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"The Internet in Everyday Life."
Research Personnel:
Caroline
Haythornthwaite (Illinois), Barry Wellman (Toronto)
Description:
We
are preparing a special issue of the _American Behavioral Scientist_ that
brings together a number of quantitative studies about how online involvement
(email, the web, etc.) affects other aspects of people's domestic and community
lives.
Supported by
the Department of Sociology and Bell University Laboratories
"Living Networked in a Wired World"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
As the world
changes from operating in groups to operating in networks, how do people's
lives change at work and in the community? This project is developing integrated
analyses of how networks operate in market economies, institutionally-based
economies (i.e., eastern Europe), and informal economies. A book-length treatise
(Personal Communities) is being prepared. An edited collection
of original articles (by Wellman and others worldwide) has been published.
(Networks in the Global Village, 1999). Both books published by Westview
Press. Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
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"Knowledge Acquistion in Loosely-Coupled Organizations: Scholarly Citation Networks Meet Social Networks"
Research Personnel:
Patrick Doreian (Pittsburgh), Howard White (Drexel), Barry Wellman, Emmanuel
Koku, Nancy Nazer, Anabel Quan (Toronto), Alesia Zuccala
Description:
Citation networks
indicate the flow of knowledge and intellectual influence among scholars.
Scholarly networks indicate friendship, colleagueship and contact among scholars.
We use information collected from the Globenet, Technet, and mathmatical scholarly
networks study to see the interplay between social relations and information
acquisition in a loosely-coupled virtual organization of knowledge workers
Media Use in a World of Unified Communication
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman, Emmanuel Koku
Description:
Which means of
communication do people use for what purposes when they have universal access
to their telephone, electronic mail, fax, and pager? Supported by Bell University
Laboratories.
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"National Geographic 'Survey 2000': Social Networks, Geographical Mobility, and Internet Use"
Research Personnel:
Keith Hampton, Barry Wellman, Jeff Boase, wenhong Chen, Kristine Klement, Anabel
Quan Hasse
Description:
Design and analysis
of social network, internet and community questions on the National Geographic
Fall 1999 web survey of 60,000 adults worldwide: their mobility, connectivity,
Internet activity, civic involvement, social networks, attitudes and tastes.
Principal Investigator of larger study: James Witte (Clemson). Supported by
The National Geographic Society.
"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.
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"The Place of Computer-Supported Communications in Work and Community: Cavecat and Telepresence"
Research Personnel:
Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Barry Wellman
Description:
Studies of how
computer mediated communication -- electronic mail and desktop videoconferencing
-- affects interactions and organizational structure at two spatially-dispersed
research and development oganizations. Supported by the TeleLearning Network,
the Ontario Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Social Science and
Humanities Research Council of Canada.
"Scholarly Networks as Loosely Coupled Organizations On and Off Line"
Research Personnel:
Emmanuel Koku, Nancy Nazer, Barry Wellman
Description:
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. Supported by the TeleLearning Network, Bell Canada
University Laboratories, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council
of Canada.
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Survey2001: The Impact of the Internet on the Networked Society
Research Personnel:
James Witte (Clemson), Wendy Griswold (Northwestern), Barry Wellman, Jeffrey
Boase (Toronto).
Description:
We use (a)
a web survey of visitors to the _National Geographic Society's_ website
and (b) and a phone survey of users/non-users of the Internet to understand
how the experience of being online is affecting people's domestic, community
and work relations, and the nature of the networked society in which they
are embedded.
Supported by the
(US) National Science Foundation
"Teleworkers: Work, Organizational, Domestic and Community Relations"
Research Personnel:
Dimitrina Dimitrova, Janet Salaff, Barry Wellman
Description:
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. Supported by Bell Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
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"Community Ties and Support Systems"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
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.
"High-Rise, Low-Rise, Community Ties"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
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.
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"Latino and Anglo Families in the Los Angeles Area"
Research Personnel:
Dean Behrens, Barry Wellman, Charles Wetherell
Description:
Comparison of
the household and kinship relations. Principal Investigator: Charles Wetherell
(Univ. of California-Riverside). Supported by U.S. National Institute of Mental
Health.
"National Alcohol and Drug Study"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman, Scot Wortley
Description:
Literature review
of how community social networks affect alcohol and drug use.
Literature review and principal data analysis of the Canadian National Alcohol
and Drug Survey: the prevalence and social correlates of using alcohol and
illicit drugs. Supported by Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare and the
Univ. of Toronto.
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"Networks, Community and Ethnicity in Bulgaria"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
Investigations
of community in Sofia and interethnic relations throughout Bulgaria. In cooperation
with the Inst. of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
"Personal Rules for Relationships"
Research Personnel:
Emmanuel Koku, Nancy Nazer, Barry Wellman
Description:
Studies of preferences
for different types of interactions -- online and offline -- with various
types of people. Uses data collected for work and community interactions.
Development of design criteria for personalized, tailorable computer supported
interactions. Supported by Bell Canada University Laboratories.
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"Public Participation in Transportation Decision-Making"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
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.
Reciprocity in Real Life
Research Personnel:
Dean
Behrens, Barry Wellman (Toronto)
Description:
The
East York studies provide unique data on who provides what kinds of support
to whom in personal networks. We use statistical and qualitative analysis
to understand specific exchanges, generalized reciprocity, and network balancing.
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"Social Networks of Alcohol and Drug Users"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman, Scot Wortley, Stephanie Potter
Description:
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. Supported by Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare.
"School Integration Research"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
Relationship of
integration experience to selected sociological variables. Advisor on research
philosophy and design; 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 the computer-based content and analysis of self-conceptions.
Principal Investigator: Nancy St. John, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Supported by the Carnegie Corporation, and the National Science Foundation.
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"Self-Concepts and Urban Participation of Black and White Adolescents"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
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.
Social Support as Social Capital in Personal Communities: "The East York Study"
Research Personnel:
Kenneth Frank, Barry Wellman
Description:
Follow-up study
of "Community Ties and Support Systems" (below). In-depth qualitative
interviews of subsample of original respondents. Multi-level statistical analysis
of both large-scale survey and in-depth interviews.Information on the structure
and dynamics of community ties. Supported by the Univ. 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, the Joint Programme in Transportation of York
Univ. and the Univ. of Toronto, and the Gerontology Program of the Univ. of
Toronto.
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"Structural Analysis Programme"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
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 programme was published by Cambridge
University Press in 1988: Social Structures: A Network Approach.
"The Yorklea Study of Mental Health in the Community"
Research Personnel:
Barry Wellman
Description:
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). Principal Investigator: D.B. Coates, MD. Supported
by the Clarke Inst. of Psychiatry.
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