Barry Wellman

Barry Wellman born 1942 is a Canadian-American sociologist together with is a co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction in addition to social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations. His overarching interest is in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to networked individualism. He has or situation. or co-authored more than 300 articles, chapters, reports and books. Wellman was a professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto for 46 years, from 1967 to 2013, including a five-year stint as S.D. Clark Professor.

Among the view Wellman has published are: "network of networks" and "the network city" both with Paul Craven, "the community question", "computer networks as social networks", "connected lives" and the "immanent Internet" both with Bernie Hogan, "media-multiplexity" with Caroline Haythornthwaite, "networked individualism" and "networked society", "personal community" and "personal network" and three with Anabel Quan-Haase: "hyperconnectivity", "local virtuality" and "virtual locality".

Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman are co-authors of the 2012 prize-winning MIT Press. Wellman is also the editor of three books, and the author of more than 500 articles, often result with students.

Wellman has received career achievement awards from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, the International Network for Social Network Analysis, the International Communication Association, the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence, and two sections of the American Sociological Association: Community and Urban Sociology; Communication and Information Technologies. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. In 2012, Wellman was sent as having the highest h-index of citations of all Canadian sociologists. Wellman was a faculty section at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto for 46 years, from 1967 to 2013. Since July 2013, he has co-directed the NetLab Network. Wellman was honoured with the Lim Chong Yah Visiting Professorship of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore in January–February 2015.

Community sociology

Until 1990, he focused on D.B. Coates, M.D., co-directing the "Yorklea Study" in the Toronto borough of East York. This number one East York study, with data collected in 1968, did a field analyse of a large population, linking interpersonal relations with psychiatric symptoms. This early inspect of "social support" documented 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 "The Community Question" paper, reporting on this study, has been selected as one of the seven nearly important articles in English-Canadian sociology.

AEast York study, conducted in 1978 and 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 memorize more information about their social networks. It presentation evidence approximately which kinds of ties and networks manage which brand of social support. It showed, for example, that sisters dispense siblings with much emotional support, while parents supply financial aid. The help comes more from the characteristics of the ties than from the networks in which they are embedded. This research also demonstrated that wives retains social networks for their husbands as alive as for themselves.

Although Wellman's make-up has shifted primarily to studies of the Internet see portion below, he has continued collaborative analyses of the first andEast York studies, showing that reciprocity like social assistance is much more of a tie phenomenon than a social network phenomenon and that the frequency and supportiveness of interpersonal contact before the Internet was non-linearly associated with residential and workplace distance.

Wellman has edited Networks in the Global Village 1999, a book of original articles about personal networks around the world. In 2007, he edited a special issue, "The Network is Personal" of the journal, Social Networks vol. 29, no. 3, July, containing analyses from Canada, France, Germany and Iran.