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Barry Wellman
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 220
Citations - 35752
Barry Wellman is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Social network. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 219 publications receiving 34234 citations. Previous affiliations of Barry Wellman include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of Genoa.
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Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support
Barry Wellman,Scot Wortley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated six potential explanations of why different types of ties provide different kinds of supportive resources: tie strength, contact, group processes, kinship, network members' characteristics, and similarities and dissimilarities between network members in such characteristics.
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Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital? : Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment
TL;DR: The authors found that heavy Internet use is associated with increased participation in voluntary organizations and politics, and that people's interaction online supplements their face-to-face and telephone communication without increasing or decreasing it.
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The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated three contentions about the Community Question: Community is Lost, Saved or Liberted, and the data provided broad support for the Liberated argument, in conjunction with some portions of the Saved argument.
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Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking
TL;DR: In-person and computer-mediated communication are integrated in communities characterized by personalized networking, and social affordances of computer-supported social networks - broader bandwidth, wireless portability, globalized connectivity, personalization - are fostering the movement from door-to-door and place- to-place communities.
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Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
Barry Wellman,Janet W. Salaff,Dimitrina Dimitrova,Laura Garton,Milena Gulia,Caroline Haythornthwaite +5 more
TL;DR: CSSNs accomplish a wide variety of cooperative work, connecting workers within and between organizations who are often physically dispersed, and link teleworkers from their homes or remote work centers to main organi...