Barry Wellman's Vita

Professor Barry Wellman studies networks: community, communication, computer, and social. His research examines virtual community, the virtual workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. Based at the University of Toronto, he directs NetLab, 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 Networked: The New Social Operating System (with Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project) to be published by MIT Press in Spring 2012.

Prof. Wellman is a member 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 Advance Studies. He has worked with IBM's Institute of Knowledge Management, Mitel Networks, Advanced Micro Devices' Global Consumer Advisory Board, and Intel's 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 Council's (and Ford Foundation's) Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security. He is the (co-)author of more than 200 articles that have been co-authored with more than 80 scholars, and 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, 2003). Prof. Wellman has published articles about the theory, methods and substance of social network analysis. He created the terms "network city" in 1973, "network of networks" in 1983, "networked individualism" in 2000, and (with Keith Hampton) pioneered the use of "glocalization" in discussing computer mediated communication networks.

Research Focus: Prof. Wellman is currently studying with his NetLab team:

Computer Networks as Social Networks: Much of Prof. Wellman's work has analyzed computer networks as social networks. In the 1990s, Prof. Wellman worked with computer scientists and information scientists at the University of Toronto 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. The project entailed multidisciplinary cooperation between researchers in universities and the private sector. 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 is also preparing two books, Living Wired in a Networked World and Personal Communities: From Little Boxes to Networked Individualism.

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 and reciprocity in personal community networks in an era of "networked individualism". Prof. Wellman is now completing a long-term study of network-based personal communities in Toronto. 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.He is a principal founder of a new sociology journal, City and Community, whose first issue appeared in 2002.

Interdisciplinary Links: Much of Prof. Wellman's research has been collaborative and interdisciplinary, including work with archivists, communication scientists, computer scientists, educators, geographers, historians, information scientists, 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, Ken'ichi Ikeda and Jeffrey Boase in Japan.

Prof. Wellman's work has been translated into Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, 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, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He has lectured and held workshops about social network analysis in Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Spain, 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.

He 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 , 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, Science, Social Networks, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Theory, Sociological Research Online.

Editorial Posts: Prof. Wellman founded the informal social network analytic journal, Connections, in 1977 and edited/published it for twelve years. He was a principal founder of a new sociology journal, City and Community, whose first issue appeared in March 2002, and he current serves as an Associate Editor. He is the Book Reviews editor of Social Networks, and the North American editor of Information, Communication and Society. He serves on a number of other editorial boards.

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, University of Toronto awarded the S.D. Clark Endowed Chair to him. The Department of Sociology had previously honored him (in April 2001) with the "Barryfest" conference: "Social Structure in a Changing World ?Presentations in Honour of Barry Wellman".

Prof. Wellman has received an Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award by the Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association (2001). He has received Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Awards from two sections of the American Sociological Association: Communication and Information Technologies (2004) and Community and Urban Sociology (2006). ). In 2008, the International Communication Association gave him its initial Open Field award for being a researcher whose "work has been very influential in media and communication research". In May 2008, his “networked individualism” work was included in the national English-language entrance exam for Chinese universities.

Prof. Wellman's "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; 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 society's 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 Toronto's Dean's Excellence Award.

Prof. Wellman's 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 I’ve thought of something new, it turns out that Barry Wellman wrote about it ten years ago” [keynote address to the WikSym conference, G’dansk Poland]. In March 2012, Wellman was identified by the Toronto Globe and Mail of having the highest h-index (of citations) of all Canadian sociologists.

Leadership: Barry Wellman heads the NetLab research network at the University of Toronto.

He founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis in 1976, headed this interdisciplinary body until 1988, and continues as its International Coordinator, Executive Committee member, and "Ties & Bonds" columnist. Prof. Wellman is the Chair-Emeritus of the Communication and Information Technologies section 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 Councils of the ASA’s Community section, its Sociology and Computing section, and the Community Research section of the International Sociological Association. In 1994 he was selected as one of the five active Canadian members of the Sociological Research Association (the American honor society). He was named in 2000 to its Executive, and rose inexorably through its Executive ranks to be its Chair, 2004-2005. He has also been selected for the Canadian Who's Who.

Prof. Wellman was the American Sociological Association's first Advisor on Electronic Networking and the first Chair of the ASA's Electronic Publications committee. He was the Advisor of the "Virtual Communities and Environments" Focus Area for the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Processes, and a founding member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Electronic Community Center committee. Wellman was a developer of the National Geographic Society's Web Survey 2000 on "millennium trends" and Web Survey 2001 investigating "the internet in everyday life". He founded the Structural Analysis Programme at the Department of Sociology and led it, 1979-1983, was a Steering Committee member of the University of Toronto's 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 (London: Taylor and Francis, 2001). Kelner and Wellman are the co-authors of numerous articles analyzing the uses and professionalization of complementary and alternative medicine. They are the co-authors of numerous articles analyzing the uses and professionalization of complementary and alternative medicine. Beverly Wellman's career has included being a modern dancer, a teacher of primary grades and creative movement, a student of the Alexander and Laban techniques, and the co-book essay editor of Social Networks

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. Barry Wellman was Captain of Lafayette College's undefeated GE College Bowl team in 1962. In April 2003, he and the team returned Lafayette for a forty-ish 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 (What If...). He was the only academic whose picture hung among the performing artists in Toronto's landmark "Bagel" restaurant until its demise in 2004.

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto

Director, NetLab, University of Toronto

International Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis

Senior Research Fellow, Pew Internet and Society Project

North American Editor, Information, Communication and Society

Consulting Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005-2010.

Advisory Board Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute [KMDI], University of Toronto, 2008-2009, Steering Committee Member, 1999-2008

Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto (cross-appointment)
"Virtual Communities and Environments" Focus Area Advisor, SIGGROUP/ACM
Research Associate, Knowledge Media Design Institute [KMDI], University of Toronto
Research Associate, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
Member, Canadian Urban Health Initiative
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
Board of Trustees, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, 2010-2013.

P.S. 33 Bronx; JHS 79 Bronx
Bronx High School of Science, 1959 (Honors)
B.A., Lafayette College, 1963, Honors History major; magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; ranked 1^st in Arts & Science
M.A., 1965, Harvard University, Sociology (Dept. of Social Relations)
Ph.D. 1969, Harvard University, Sociology (Dept. of Social Relations)
Born: Sept. 30, 1942
Married: Beverly Wellman, July 6, 1965

S.D. Clark Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 2006 -
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1980 - 2006
Director, Structural Analysis Programme, University of Toronto, 1979 - 1982
Associate Director, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1980-1984
Associate 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 - 1972
Research Sociologist, Clarke Inst. of Psychiatry, Toronto, 1967 - 1969

Fellow, IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, 2001-2002
Visiting Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Fellow, Bellagio Center, Italy, 1999
Visiting Professor, Inst. for Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
Fellow, Netherlands Inst. for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1978-1979
Visiting Professor, University of Surrey, Guildford, England, 1974-1975

Identified by Toronto Globe and Mail, March 27, 2012, as having the highest h-index for citations of all Canadian sociologists

Nominated by University of Toronto for Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Gold Medal for Outstanding Social Science Research, May 2011

Yu 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), 2009-2013

Fellow, 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 “Canada’s 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, International Communication Association, 2008, for a researcher who has “made important contributions to the field of communications from outside the discipline of communications.” First time prize has been awarded.

Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, June 2007

Appointed S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Fall 2006

Robert and Helen Lynd Award for Outstanding Career Contribution, American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology section, 2006.

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 2010

Research 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.

Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award, Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, 2001.

"BarryFest" celebratory conference ["Social Structure in a Changing World: Presentations in Honour of Barry Wellman], Dept of Sociology, Univ of Toronto, April 2001

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).

Social Structures: A Network Approach (ed. by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz) included in International Sociological Association's list of "Books of the Century" [April 2001].

Selected as "High-Performing Researcher," Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada, July 2003.

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.”

"Editor of the Month" May 2004 by Berkshire Reference Works for editing Internet and Community section of Encyclopedia of Community (Sage, 2003).

Elected founding executive committee member of Association of Internet Researchers, 2001-2004.

Website 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=992619187-5417

Chair, Communication and Information Technologies section, American Sociological Association, 2004-2005.

Member, Global Consumer Advisory Board, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), January 2002 - January 2004.

Elected, Commitee on Sections, American Sociological Association, 2003-2006. (Previously nominated, 2006).

Fellow, IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, 2001-2002

Elected, Sociological Research Association [honor society], 1994. Member,
Executive Nominations Committee, 1996; Elected, Executive Committee, 2000, rising through Executive ranks to be Chair, 2004-2005. Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, 2001-2002; Chair, Membership Committee, 2002-2003; Secretary-Treasurer, 2003-2004; President, 2004-2005.

Fellow, Bellagio Centre [Rockefeller Foundation], Italy, October-November, 1999

Mentoring Award, International Network for Personal Relationships, 1998.

Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 1998-2000

Outstanding Teaching Award, Second Place, International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, 1996

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.

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/]

Listed, Canadian Applied Science and Technology Registry [aka Who's Who in Canadian High-Tech].1998 -

Outstanding Publication Award, Finalist, International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, 1996

Elected, Council of Sociology and Computing section, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999

Web Page of the Month, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, April, 1998

Web Page of the Month, Department of Sociology, Univ of Toronto, Dec, 1997.

Picture Posted on Bagel Restaurant's Wall of Fame, Nov, 1997.

Halbert Exchange Fellowship, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April-May, 1995.

Nominated, Council of Organizations, Occupation and Work section, American Sociological Assoc, 1995.

Information Technology Research Centre "Innovation Award" to the Telepresence Project, Sept. 1994.

Plenary Speaker, International Societyfor the Study of Personal Relationships, Groningen, Neth., July, 1994.

Distinguished Keynote Speaker, International Sunbelt Social Network Conf, New Orleans, Feb. 1994. [Highest honor of society]

Top-ranked social science proposal, Connaught Foundation Transformative Grant, 1994.

Proposal to study networks ranked 4th of 135 by Socical Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1994.

"Media Use and Work Relationships in a Research Group." Voted best paper in session & nominated as best paper in the Hawaii Int'l Conf on System Sciences. Collaboration Technology track. [co-authored with Caroline Haythornthwaite and Marilyn Mantei.]

Identified as second most prominent scholar in social network analysis in study done 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 & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Annual Report 1992-1993

Inaugural Lecture, "International Lectures on Sociology," Matsuyama University, Japan, July, 1992.

Dean's Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, 1991, 1992, 1993.

Barry Wellman Award established 1990 by Dept. of Sociology, University 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.

Keynote Speaker, First European Social Network Conference, Paris, February, 1987.

Theodore Standing Commemorative Lecturer, SUNY, Albany, April, 1987.

Second Prize, Best Paper in Sociological Theory, American Sociological Assoc., 1984.

Social Science and Humanities Reasearch Council of Canada Leave Fellowship, 1983 - 1984

Fellow-elect, Australian National University (1982, declined)

Fellow, Netherlands lnstitute for Advanced Study. 1978 - 1979.

Canada Council Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, 1974 - 1975.

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1963 - 1964; NSF Graduate Fellowhship 1964- 1967.

Ranked First in Arts & Science, Magna cum laude honours, Lafayette College, 1963.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1963.

Who's Who in American College and Universities Students, 1963.

American Friends of Lafayette Medal, 1963: Outstanding History Major.

Elected to Phi Alpha Theta, History Honors Society, 1963.

Porter Bible Prize, Lafayette College, 1963. Excellence in Religious Studies.

Captain & highest scorer, Lafayette College team, Undefeated GE College Bowl champions, CBS-TV, 1962.

SAT [Scholastic Aptitude Test] score=1598/1600, Bronx High School of Science, 1958

Varsity Letter Winner in Track (mile relay) and Cross-Country, Bronx High School of Science, 1956-1959.

Founder and Coordinator, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 1976 - 1988. International Coordinator, 1988 -
Founding Board member, Journal of e-Planning. 2011-
Advisory Board, Instiuto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet [ISDI, Higher Insitute for Internet Development], Complutense University, Madrid, 2011-
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), 2009-2013
Member, International Communication Association Selection Committee for Communication Research as an Open Field Award, 2008-2009.
Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section Career Achievement Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 2008-2009.
C hair, Communications and Information Technologies Section Career Achievement Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 2007-2009 (Member, 2006-2007).
Nominations Committee, International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2002-2003, 2006.
Founding Board member, Philip Stone Center, Mani Losaj, Croatia, 2007-
Advisory Committee Member, Math and Public Policy Lecture Series, Fields Institute, Toronto, 2006-
Diaspora Task Force, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 2006 -
Sloan (Foundation) Industry Studies Affiliate, 2005 -
Founding Electronic Advisor (and Chair, Advisory Group on Electronic Networking), American Sociological Association, 1995-1997.
Founding Chair, Subcommittee on Electronic Publications, Publications Ctte, Amer. Sociological Assoc., 1995 - 1997.
Chair, 1998-2000, Community and Urban section, American Sociological Association
Chair-Emeritus and Council Member, Community and Urban section, American Sociological Association, 2000-2002
Focus Area Advisor, "Virtual Community and Environments," Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Processes [SIGGROUP], 1997 -
Member, Steering Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute., 1999 -.
Committee Member, Program for Information Technology, International Technology, and Global Cooperation, Social Science Research Council, 2000 - 2002.
Founding Council member, Community and Urban Sociology section, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assoc, 1999 -
Member, Web Committee, American Sociological Association, 2002.
Member, Committee on Sections, American Sociological Association, 2003-2006.
Executive 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.
Member, Steering Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 1999 –
Council member, Sociology and Computing section, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999.
Member, Electronic Communities Committee, Association for Computing Machinery, 1996 - 1997.
Member, Information Highway Working Group [Canada], 1996 - 1997.
Awards Ctte Member, Int'l Society for the Study of Personal Relationships (Publication, Outstanding Contribution, Teaching), 1995 - 1996
(Founding) Chair, Committee on Publications, Community and Urban Sociology section, American Sociological Assoc., 1994-1997.
Chair, Community Section Selection Committee, "Lynd Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Sociology," American Sociological Assoc., 1987 - 1988; Member 1986 - 1987.
Founding Member, Advisory Council, Int'l Network for the Study of Personal Relations, 1986-.
Member, Community Section Selection Committe, "Robert Park Award for Outstanding Book," American Sociological Assoc., 1990 - 1991; 2004-2005.
Board Member, Community Research Committee, Int'l Sociological Assoc., 1981 - 1986.
Council Member, Community Section, American Sociological Assoc., 1977 - 1980.
Friends of the Spaced Out Library: The Merril Collection of Speculative Fiction, 1990 -.
Network Therapy Advisory Committee, Community Occupational Therapy Assoc., 1994 - 1997.
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/Members, 2007 -

North American Editor, Information, Communication and Society, 2003 - (Editorial Board, 2000-2003)

Co-Editor, Special issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research, American Behavioral Scienist, 2011-
Editorial Board, Mobile Media & Communication, 2012-
Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior
Editorial Board, Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2010 -
Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2010-
International Advisory Board, Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, 2009 -
Editorial Board, Sociological Focus, 2009 -
Editorial Board, Bulletin de Methode Sociologique, 2009 -
Editorial Board, American Behavioral Scientist, 2008 -
Editorial Board, Sociological Analysis [Albania], 2008 -
Consulting Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 2005-2016.
Founding Editorial Board, International Journal of Internet Science, 2004 -
Editorial Board, Field Methods, 1999 - 2009
International Correspondent, Sociological Research Online, 1995 -
Editorial Board, Journal of Online Behavior, 1998 -
Editorial Board, Sociological Forum, 1994 -
Editorial Board, Mobile Communication Research Annual, 2006 -

Founding Editor, Connections, 1976 - 1988
Co-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]
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.
Chair, Oversight Committee, City and Community, 2005-2008
Associate Editor, Social Networks: 1982 - 2003. (Editorial Board Member, 1977 - 1982)
Co-Book Review Editor, Social Networks, 2003 - 2007.
Editor, Special Issue on "Personal Community Networks", Social Networks, 2007.
Editor, Special Issue on "Methods of Studying Networks On and Offline." Field Methods 19 (2), May 2007.

Founder and Chair, Publications Oversight Committee, City & Community, 2005-2008. [ASA's 1st section based journal: print/web]

Editor, Technical Report / Working Paper Series, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 2004 -2006 (Co-editor 2001-2004).
Advisory Board, Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage Publications, 2005 - 2008.
Editorial Board, "Personal Relationships" book series, Sage Publications, 1983 - 1986
Editorial Advisor, Journal of Social Issues, Two special issues on "Social Support," 1983 - 1984
Advisory Board, "Structural Analysis" monograph series. Academic Press, 1982 - 1986; Cambridge U. Press, 1986 - 1991
Advisory Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1983 - 1997
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1984 - 1986
Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology Methods, 1992 - 1999
Editorial Board, Progress in Communication Science, 1993 - 2002
Co-Editor, Special issue on social networks, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, May, 1992
Founding Contributing Editor, New Media and Society, 1997 - 2006
Editorial Advisory Committee, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 1997 - 2000
Editorial Board, Sociological Inquiry, 1997-2003
Advisory Board, Sociological Analysis [Albanian journal of sociology], 1998
Founder, Founding Associate Editor, and Chair Publications Committee, City & Community, 1998 - 2005
Editorial Board, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1999 - 2003
Editorial Board, Information, Communication and Society, 2000 - 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, November 2001
Founding Editorial Board, International Journal for Networked and Virtual Organizations, 2001 - 2006
Technology and Community Editor, Encyclopedia of Community (Sage 2003).
Editorial Board, Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2003 - 2004.

Network Investigator, “Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND)” Network Centre of Excellence, 2010-2015. Network of approximately 50 scholars in Canada 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 government’s Network Centres of Excellence program; Pew Internet and American Life project, Sysomos, Telus (DINS); Bardel (EOVW). Faculty collaborators: Dimitrina Dimitrova, Anatolij Gruzd, Alexandra Marin, Catherine Middleton, Diana Mok, Jason Nolan; Student collaborators: Melissa Godbout, Zack Hayat, Mo Guang Ying, Mehdi Zabet, Natalie Zinko.

Principal Investigator, “Evaluating the Effects of the Triple Revolution on Networked Individualism – in Communities, at Home and at Work.”2010-2013. 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. Student Collaborators: Melissa Godbout, Tracy Kennedy, Maria Majerski, Janice Zhang

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.

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, Hungary and Japan. Faculty collaborators: Dean Behrens (northern Ontario); Eszter Babarczy (Hungary); Ken’ichi 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 Research, Nortel Networks, BCE, Bell University Labs, Mobile Innovation Center (Hungary), 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. Collaborator: Wenhong Chen. Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Principal Investigator, "Hyperconnected Organizational Networks On and Offline." 2001-. Analysis of social networks, information flows and media use in organizations. 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.

Co-Principal Investigator, "The Spatiality of Personal Networks." 2003-. 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 Mak (University of Western Ontario). Supported by the Joint Programme in Transportation of York University and the University of Toronto.

Principal Investigator, "Networking in the Global Village: The East York Study of How Personal Communities are Used." 1976 - . Follow-up on 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. Multilevel and longitudinal analyses of social support and reciprocity. Faculty collaborator: Kenneth Frank (Michigan State). Doctoral student collaborators: Rochelle Cote, Gabriele Plickert. 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.

Principal Investigator, “Changing Internet Use in the United States”. 2006-. Longitudinal analysis of annual surveys since 2003 of Internet use in everyday life, based on the World Internet Project’s American surveys. Collaborators: Helen Hua Wang and Jeffrey Cole (University of Southern California); Michael Suman (UCLA). Supported by the Center for the Digital Future, USC.

Co-Investigator, “China Internet Project”, 2006-. Analysis of Internet use in major Chinese cities, using survey data from the World Internet Project. Collaborators include: Guo Liang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Wenhong Chen (Duke University) and Helen Hua Wang (Annenberg School, University of Southern California).

PAST

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 affected household relations, work and relations with friends, relatives and neighbours. Co-Principal Investigators: Lee Rainie (Pew; all studies); 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.

Consultant, "Deconcentration and Social Capital: Assessing the Impact of Relocation in Three Urban Neighborhoods." 2003-2005. Susan Greenbaum (Anthropology, Univ of South Florida, Principal Investigator). Advising on social capital, research design and research analysis in study of the residents of US Hope VI projects. Supported by the (US) National Science Foundation.

Co-Principal Investigator, “Egotistics.” 2005-2008. Development of software for personal network analysis. Collaborators: Bernie Hogan (Oxford), Wojciech Gryc (Oxford).

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.

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 Montreal.

Principal 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 women's and men's relations of work and community online and offline in the home, neighbourhood, and non-locally. Faculty (and former doctoral student) collaborator: Keith Hampton (MIT). Supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Communications and Information Technology Ontario.

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 University). Faculty collaborator (and former doctoral student): Keith Hampton (Annenberg School of Communication). Doctoral student collaborators: Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen, Anabel Quan-Haase. Supported by The National Geographic. Society and the (US) National Science Foundation.

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. Studies relationships between social networks and scholarly interconnections and productivity Faculty collaborator: Howard White (Drexel). Doctoral student collaborator: Emmanuel Koku. Postdoctoral collaborator: Nancy Nazer. Supported by Bell University Laboratories

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-Principal Investigator, "Double Digital Divide." 2000-2004. 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. Faculty collaborator: Rima Wilkes (Univ of British Columbia). Doctoral student collaborator: Wenhong Chen, Melissa Kew. Supported by the Office of Learning Technologies, Human Resources Canada.; Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Principal Investigator, "The Place of Computer-Supported Communications in Work and Community: Ceriso 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 (and former doctoral student collaborator): Caroline Haythornthwaite (Univ 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, "Projecto 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. Principal Investigator: Manuel Castells. Faculty collaborator: Imma Tallurdes (University Oberta de Catalunya). Doctoral student collaborator: Isabel Diaz de Isla (UOC). Supported by Generalitat [Government] de Catalunya and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Principal Investigator, "Changing Conceptualisations of Community in the Networked Society." 2000-2001. 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.

Co-Investigator, "Teleworkers: Work, Organizational, Domestic and Community Relations." 1993 - 2002 . 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. Faculty Collaborator: Arent Greve (Norwegian School of Business). Doctoral/Post-doctoral Student Collaborator: Dimitrina Dimitrova (McMaster University). Supported by Bell Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Principal 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).

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, "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 University 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.

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 the computer-based content and analysis of self-conceptions. Supported by the Carnegie Corporation and the National Science Foundation.

CURRENT SUPPORT

“Knowledge Transfer in Scholarly Networks.” 2012. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $25,000.

“Assessing the Change to a Digital Information Society in East York.” 2012. Library and Archives Canada, $12,000.

Network Investigator, “Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND)” Network Centre of Excellence, 2010-2015. Within GRAND:

“Evaluating the Effects of the Triple Revolution,” SSHRCC, 2010-2013. $93,000.

PREVIOUS SUPPORT

“Networked Living: The Household, Work and Community,” Three large-scale surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. 2007-2010. In kind use of surveys.

“Internet Use in the United States.” Three large-scale surveys by the Center for the Digital Future, University of Southern California.” 2006-. In kind use of surveys.

"Connected Lives and Networked Individualism: Urban-Rural Comparisons." 2006-2009. Intel Research Council. US$180,000.

"Managing Social Capital and Domestic Relations On and Off Line in Urban and Rural Ontario." 2006-2009. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $120,000.

"Studies in Computer Supported Social Networks." Microsoft Research, 2004-2008. US$18,000.

"Netting Together: How is the Internet Affecting Community?" 2003-2006. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $145,000. [ranked 3rd of 119 proposals].

"Connected Northern Lives." Nortel Networks, BCE, and Bell University Laboratories. 2005-2006. $205,000.

"Information Economy and Transnational Entrepreneurship." 2003-2006. Initiative for the New Economy, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $185,000. [ranked 1st of 44 proposals.]

"Information Economy and Transnational Entrepreneurship: Knowledge Dissemination." 2006-2007. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $49,000.

"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, Ctr. for Urban and Community Studies, University 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, University of Toronto, $11,350; 1980--Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems (NIMH), US$32,628; 1980-1983--Structural Analysis Programme, University of Toronto, $5,000.

"Community Through the Life-Course." Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Strategic Grant for the Study of Population Aging, $27,210; Gerontology Programme, University 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, University 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 Ancilliary 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 Canada, $101,500.

"Integrated Community Networks: How and What Forms of Computer Mediated Communication Do People Use in a Wired Suburb." 1998-1999. Communications and Information Technology Ontario, $17,000.

"Ethereal Colleges: Scholarly Networks in a World of Computer Mediated Communication." 1996-1999. TeleLearning Network Centre of Excellence, 1996-1998, $60,000; 1998-1999, $28,000.

"Computer Networks as Social Networks: Wired Communities and Scholarly Communities." 1997-2000. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $80,000.

"Invisible Colleges - Scholarly Networks Thematic Review." 1998-1999. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Policy Review Secretariat Project on Trends: Technological Change and the Information Revolution, $5,000.

"Mapping and Using Relationships Based on Network Analysis and Related Behavioural and Sociological Assessment and Modeling Techniques." 1999-2000. Bell Canada University Laboratories. $46,546.

"Using Relational and Social Network Information to Enhance Unified Communication." 2000-2001. Bell University Laboratories. $74,019.

"Double Digital Divide." 2000-2001. Principal Investigator. Office of Learning Technology, Human Resources Canada, $25,000.

"Changing Conceptualisations of Community in the Networked Society." Law Commission of Canada. 2001. $15,000.

"Women in Cyberspace: How Living in a Wired Suburb Affects Domestic Work, Paid Work and Networking." 1998-2001. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $129,600.

"Using Relational and Social Network Information to Enhance Unified Communication." 2000-2001. Bell Canada University Laboratories. $74,019.

"Developing the Virtual Campus." 2000-2001. Co-investigator with Mark Chignell, Gale Moore and Monica Schraefel. Bell University Laboratories. $140,000.

"Knowledge Management in Networked Organizations." 2001-2002. IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, US$15,000.

"Survey 2001: Information chnology's Impact on Community, Culture and Conservation." 2000-2002. Co-investigator with James Witte, Catherine Mobley, Keith Hampton. (US) National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society. US$487,761.

"Communication Tools: Social Design of Technology." 2003-2004. Principal Investigator. Communications and Information Technology Ontario and Bank of Montreal, $30,000.

"Modelling and Developing Tools for Ad Hoc Networking: Computer, Communication, Work and Community." Communication and Information Technology Ontario and Mitel Networks. $90,000.

"Canadian Community Cohesion and Civic Involvement in a Networked World." 2002-2004. Federalism and Federation Program, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $39,352.

"The Strength of Internet Ties." Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2004. US$120.000.

Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman, Christian Beermann and Tsahi Hayat. 2012. “The Networked World.” The Futurist, 46, 3 (July): forthcoming.

Barry Wellman, 2012. “Is Dunbar’s Number Up?” British Journal of Psychology 103, 2, (May): 174-76. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02075.x

Guang Ying Mo and Barry Wellman. 2012. “Understanding Sequencing in Social Network Communications.” Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, no. 113: 76-87.

Yuri Tahkteyev, Barry Wellman and Anatoliy Gruzd, ““How Twitter Makes the Internet More Local: Social Media Isn’t as Global as One Might Think .” Foreign Affairs, April 4, 2012. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137387/yuri-takhteyev-barry-wellman-and-anatoliy-gruzd/how-twitter-makes-the-internet-more-local

Yuri Takhteyev, Anatoliy Gruzd and Barry Wellman. 2012, “Geography of Twitter Networks.” Social Networks 34, 1 (January): 73–81. special issue on space and networks

Anatoliy Gruzd, Barry Wellman and Yuri Takhteyev. 2011. “Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community.” American Behavioral Scientist 55, 10: 1294-1318; doi:10.1177/0002764211409378

Jessica Collins and Barry Wellman. 2010. “Small Town in the Internet Society: Chapleau is No Longer an Island.” American Behavioral Scientist 53, 9: 1344-66. doi:10.1177/0002764210361689

Hua Wang and Barry Wellman. 2010. “Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size from 2002 to 2007,” American Behavioral Scientist 53, 8: 1148-1169. doi: 10.1177/0002764209356247

Diana Mok, Barry Wellman and Juan-Antonio Carrasco, 2010. “Does Distance Matter in the Age of the Internet?” Urban Studies 47, 13: 2747-83. doi:10.1177/0042098010377363. 2nd prize, Jane Addams Best Paper Award, Community and Urban Sociology section, American Sociological Association, July 2011

Vincent Chua, Julia Madej and Barry Wellman. 2009. “Personal Communities as Sources of Social Support.” In the special 40th annniversary issue of Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 41, 3 (September): 11-17.

Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman. 2009. "Net and Jet: The Internet Use, Travel and Social Networks of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs." Information, Communication and Society, 12, 4 (June): 525-47.

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Barry Wellman and Eric Miller. 2008. “How Far – and With Whom – Do People Socialize? Empirical Evidence about Distance between Social Network Members.” Transportation Research Record: 2076, 114-122.

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Bernie Hogan, Barry Wellman and Eric Miller. 2008. "Collecting Social Network Data to Study Social Activity-Travel Behavior: An Egocentric Approach." Environment and Planning B 35, 6: 961-80.

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Bernie Hogan, Barry Wellman, and Eric J. Miller. 2008. “Agency in Social Activity and ICT Interactions: The Role of Social Networks in Time and Space.” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie [Journal of Economic and Social Geography] 99 (5): 562-83 .

Tracy Kennedy and Barry Wellman. 2007. "The Networked Household." Information, Communication and Society 10 (5): 647-70 . [Translated into Spanish as “El hogar en red.” Redes: Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales 15, 1 (December 2008): 1-20.]
http ://revista-redes.rediris.es/html-vol15/Vol15_1.htm

Coined new word, “threadmill” for Urban Dictionary. Accepted February 18, 2011. “Threadmill: Being ground down because you are involved in too many things.” “He is exhausted from running on the threadmill of life.” www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Threadmill.

Barry Wellman, “Adjusting for Overinflation/” Roundel, September 2010, p. 8.
Barry Wellman, “What Big Three?” Letter to the Editor, University Affairs, May 2010, p. 4. www.universityaffairs.ca

Barry Wellman, “Idiotica, Perhaps not.” CAUT Bulletin, 55 (9): November 2008.
http://www.cautbulletin.ca/en_article.asp?SectionID=1115&SectionName=Letters&VolID=272&VolumeName=No%209&VolumeStartDate=11/7/2008&EditionID=9&EditionName=Vol%2055&EditionStartDate=1/17/2008&ArticleID=2711

Barry Wellman, "Updating Cyber Times: It’s Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace." March 2006. http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php [Interactive web space updating songs, lyrics, movie titles, history, etc from pre-Internet times. Ongoing frequent revisions]

BOOK REVIEWS

Rich Ling and Scott W. Campbell, eds., The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices. (“Probing the Mobile Revolution”) Contemporary Sociology 39, 2 (March 2010): 179-181.

Linton Freeman, The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science. Contemporary Sociology 37, 3 (May 2008): 221-22.

Charles Tilly, Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties. American Journal of Sociology 113, 5 (March 2008): 1439-41.

Dan Chekki, ed., Research in Community Sociology 6. Canadian Journal of Urban Research (1998).

Review essay, "The Road to Utopia and Dystopia on the Information Highway?" Reviews of: (1) City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn by William J. Mitchell; (2) The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold; (3) War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality by Mark Slouka.; (4) Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway by Clifford Stoll; (5) The War of Desire and Technology and Desire at the Close of the Mechanical Age by Allucquère Roseanne Stone; (6) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle. Contemporary Sociology 26, 4 (July, 1997): 445-449.

Kenneth Scherzer, The Unbounded Community: Neighborhood Life and Social Structure in New York City, 1830-1875. American Journal of Sociology 99 (Nov., 1993): 798-800.

Kees Knipscheer and Toni Antonucci, eds., Social Network Research: Substantive Issues and Methodological Questions. Contemporary Psychology 37 (Dec., 1992): 1315-16.

Graham Allan, Friendship: Developing a Sociological Perspective. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 9 (Feb., 1992): 155-58.

David Cheal, The Gift Economy. Canadian Journal of Sociology 15 (1990): 375-77. Reprinted in Social Networks 12 (Sept., 1990): 269-72; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 9 (Aug., 1992): 462-64.

Elaine Nardocchio, Theatre and Politics in Modern Quebec. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 25 (Nov., 1988): 677-78.

Nan Lin, Alfred Dean and Walter Ensel, Social Support, Life Events, and Depression. Contemporary Sociology 17 (March, 1988): 237-38.

Marc Pilisuk and Susan Hillier Parks, The Healing Web. American Journal of Sociology 93 (Jan., 1988): 1006-1008.

William Mitchell, Mishpokhe. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 18 (Aug., 1981): 412-14.

"Network Analysis: Structural Form and Social Behavior." Review essay on Paul Holland and Samuel Leinhardt, Perspectives on Social Network Research. Contemporary Sociology 10 (July, 1981): 512-14.

Jeremy Boissevain and J. Clyde Mitchell, eds., Network Analysis: Studies in Human Interaction. American Journal of Sociology 81 (Nov., 1975): 690-93.

Scott Greer, The Urbane View. Contemporary Sociology 3 (May, 1974): 246-48. A.V. Spada, The Italians in Canada. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 10 (May, 1973): 184-85.

Louis Harris and Bert Swanson. Black Jewish Relations in New York City. Contemporary Sociology 1 (July, 1972): 356-57.

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS [often in revised versions]

2012

Barry Wellman, “Introduction to the NAVEL studies of the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence, Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, March 2012.
Xiaolin Zhuo and Barry Wellman, “Structural Variation in Scholarly Teams: Size, Density and Hierarchy.” Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, March 2012.

2011

Barry Wellman, “From the Global Village to the Networked Globe” Mcluhan 100: Then | Now | Next Conference, Toronto, November 2011.

Juan Antonio Carrasco, Andreas Frei, Matthas Kowald, Kay Axhausen, Pauline van Der Berg, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans, Barry Wellman and Diana Mok. Juan Antonio Carrasco, Andreas Frei, Matthas Kowald, Kay Axhausen, Pauline van Der Berg, Theo Arentze, Harry Timmermans, Barry Wellman and Diana Mok. “The Spatiality and Frequncyof Interaction of Personal Networks in Four Countries: A Comparative Study.” International Workshop: Frontiers in Transportation.” Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, October, 2011.

Barry Wellman, Melissa Godbout, Tracy Kennedy and Yu Janice Zhang, “Closeness is a Many Splendored Thing.” Workshop in Information Networks, New York, October, 2011.

Guang Ying Mo, Zack Hayat, Dimitrina Dimitrova, Barry Wellman and Xiaolin Zhuo, "NAVEL: A Study of a Networked Scholarly Organization." Workshop in Information Networks, New York, October, 2011.

Anatoliy Gruzd, Barry Wellman and Yuri Tahkteyev, “Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community,” International Communication Association, Boston, May 2011.

Dima Dimitrova, Diana Mok, Anatoliy Gruzd, Guang Ying Mo, Zack Hayat, and Barry Wellman, “Networked Science: Discipline and Distance in Research Collaboration (NAVEL)”, International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St Pete Beach, FL, February 2011

Zack Hayat, Dima Dimitrova, Anatoliy Gruzd, Guang Ying Mo, and Barry Wellman, “Collaboration and Productivity in Network Organizations,” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St Pete Beach, FL, February 2011

Guang Ying Mo, Dima Dimitrova, Anatoliy Gruzd, Zack Hayat, and Barry Wellman, “Centrality and Hierarchy in a Networked Organization,” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St Pete Beach, FL, February 2011

Guang Ying Mo, Dima Dimitrova, Anatoliy Gruzd, Zack Hayat, and Barry Wellman, “Sequencing in Information Dissemination in Scholarly Networks,” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St Pete Beach, FL, February 2011

Melissa Godbout, Tracy Kennedy, Barry Wellman and Yu Janice Zhang, “The Colors of Closeness.” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, St Pete Beach, FL, February 2011

2010

Yu Janice Zhang and Barry Wellman, “The Complexity of Closeness: An Empirical Analysis". Rising Stars of Research Conference, Vancouver, August 2010.

Anatoliy Gruzd, Barry Wellman and Yuri Takhteyev, “Imagining the Imaged Community of Twitter,” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2010.

Anatoliy Gruzd and Barry Wellman with Dimitrina Dimitrova, Mo Guang Ying and Zack Hayat, “NAVEL Gazing: Picking the First Lint.” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2010.

Barry Wellman, ‘Modeling Social Media as Social Networks.” ACM International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM’10), Toronto, June 2010.

Dimitrina Dimitrova, Zack Hayat, Mo Guang Ying and Barry Wellman, “NAVEL Gazing: The Project,” 2-minute madness, GRAND-NCE conference, Ottawa, June 2010

Barry Wellman, “The Interpersonal Side of DINS” 2-minute madness, GRAND-NCE conference, Ottawa, June 2010

2009

Barry Wellman, Amanda Garofalo and Vanessa Garofalo. “The Internet, Technology and Connectedness.” KMDI at 13 Research Showcase. University of Toronto, December 2009.

Barry Wellman, “The Impact of the Triple Revolution on Relationships.” eHarmony/Oxford Internet Institute Forum on Relationships and the Internet. Oxford, December, 2009.

Tracy Kennedy, Julie Amoroso and Barry Wellman, “Blurring Home and Work Boundaries: Integrating Paid Work, Domestic Work and Family.” Mobile Communication and Social Policy Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, October, 2009

A natoliy Gruzd, Yuri Takhteyev and Barry Wellman, “A Tweetise on Twitter: Networked Individualism Online.” Thematic Session on Imagined Communities in the 21st Century, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009.

Jessica Collins and Barry Wellman, “Social Networks, the Internet and Social Inclusion in an Isolated Rural Northern Canadian Community.” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, March, 2009.

2008

Gasparina D’Agostino and Barry Wellman, “Net Rights in a Networked World.” Colloquium on Identity Rights.” Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, October 2008.

Barry Wellman, , “Networking Chuck.” Presentation to the Conference for the Celebration of the Life and Works of Charles Tilly. October, 2008. Social Science Research Council and Columbia University, New York City. http://www.ssrc.org/hirschman/event/2008

Barry Wellman, "Networked Individualism & The Triple Revolution: Networks, Internet, Mobile”. Science in the 21st Century Conference, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics. Waterloo Ontario, September, 2008.

Diana Mok and Barry Wellman, “Does Distance Matter in the Age of the Internet?” American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.

Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman, “Net and Jet: How Transnational Entrepreneurs Link Canada and China.” American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008.

Jessica Collins and Barry Wellman, “Small Town in the Internet Society.” Rural Sociological Society, Manchester NH, July 2008.

Barry Wellman, “The Triple Revolution: Networks, Internet, Mobile.” Minds and Societies Summer Institute of Social Cognition, Université du Québec à Montréal, July 2008.

Gasparina D’Agostino and Barry Wellman. 2008. “Net Rights.” Harvard Law School Workshop on New Approaches to Human Rights,” June 2008

Hua Wang and Barry Wellman, “The Internet and the Increasingly Connected American Life: Trend Spotting Through a Year-to-Year Comparison, 2002-2007.” International Communication Association, Montréal, May 2008.

Barry Wellman, "Seeing Networks," International Conference on “Memory, Social Networks, and Language: Probing the Meme Hypothesis,” University of Toronto, May 2008

Sinye Tang, Bernie Hogan and Barry Wellman. "Visualizing Social Networks." Mentorship Workshop, University of Toronto, May 2008.

Barry Wellman, “Applying Social Network Analysis to Social Networking Software.” Social Graphs FOO Camp, O’Reilly headquarters, Sebastopol, CA, February

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Eric J. Miller and Barry Wellman. “How Far and With Whom do People Socialize? Empirical Evidence about the Distance Between Social Network Members.” Transportation Research Board annual meeting, January, Washington.

Diana Mok, Barry Wellman and Juan-Antonio Carrasco, “A Comparison of the Role of Distance in Affecting the Frequency of Contact: Pre- and Post Internet.” .” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, January, St. Petersburg, FL

Helen Wang and Barry Wellman, “Social Connectivity in America: 2002-2007”. International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, January, St. Petersburg, FL

Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman, “Staying Connected by All Means.” International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, January, St. Petersburg, FL

2007

Jessica Collins, Bernie Hogan and Barry Wellman. “Chapleau Has Joined the World.” Bell University Laboratories Conference on Research in Chapleau, University of Toronto, December.

“The Need for Sociological Imagination in Software Design.” Floor commentary, Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, July.

Ben Veenhof, Carsten Quell, Barry Wellman and Bernie Hogan, 2007. “Isolation, Cohesion or Transformation? How Canadians’ Use of the Internet is Shaping Society.” Socio-Economic Conference, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, May 2007.

Barry Wellman and Tracy Kennedy. 2007“The Networked Household, Self-Organizing Online and Offline.” International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 2007.

Barry Wellman, Tracy Kennedy, Kristen Berg and Clarissa Mak. 2007. “Household Networks: Searching for Health Information.” Committee on Family Research, International Sociological Association, University of Toronto, May.

2006

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Bernie Hogan, Barry Wellman, and Eric J. Miller, "Agency in Social Activity and ICT Interactions: The Role of Social Networks in Time and Space." ICTs, Everyday Life and Urban Change conference, November, 2006, Bergen, NL.

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Eric J Miller and Barry Wellman. “Where People Socialise and With Whom: Studying the Distance Between Social Network Members.” North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, November.

Wojciech Gryc, Bernie Hogan, Barry Wellman and Jeffrey Wong, “Social Network Suite: Tools for the Analysis of Multiple Personal Networks.” IBM CASCON, Toronto, October 2006.

Barry Wellman, “Social Computing: Best Practices.” Workshop, IBM CASCON, Toronto, October 2006.

Barry Wellman, “Social Implications of the Internet.” Conference on Eurasia, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC, August 2006.

Gabriele Plickert, Barry Wellman and Rochelle Cote, "Does the Golden Rule Rule?" American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006

Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman, John Horrigan and Lee Rainie. "The Strength of Internet Ties." International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, April 2006.

Bernie Hogan and Barry Wellman, "Connected Lives: The Networks." International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, April 2006

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Barry Wellman and Eric Miller, "Spatial and Social Networks: The Case of Travel for Social Activities." International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Kyoto, August.

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Bernie Hogan, Barry Wellman and Eric Miller, "Collecting Social Network Data to Study Social Activity-Travel Behavior: An Egocentric Approach." Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, January 2006.

INFORMAL TALKS

Barry Wellman, “The Use of Online Social Networks in Coordinating Response to Disasters.” Workshop on Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience, (U.S.) National Academy of Science, February 2009.

Barry Wellman, Video Seminar, “Networks and Sustainable Housing” with Institute without Boundaries, George Brown College, Toronto, March 2007 .

Barry Wellman, Panelist, “Consumer Habits and the Network Society.” American Marketing Association, Toronto chapter, October 2006.

Barry Wellman, "Community on and off the Internet." Habit@t New Media Program and Knowledge Media Design Institute Workshop on the Internet and Community, Toronto, April 2006.

Barry Wellman, "Connected Lives and Networked Individualism." Heritage Canada Workshop: "Mapping the Digital Transition – What is the New Normal?" Toronto, March 2006.

Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman, "The Transnational Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project." Blue Sky Chinese-Canadian Club, Toronto, February 2005.

Barry Wellman, participant, "International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance: Cameraphones, Cyberglogs, and Computational Seeing Aids." Baheen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto, April 2004.

Barry Wellman, "Computer Networks as Social Networks." Knowledge Media Design Institute. Guest lecturer, Graduate core course, November 2003.

Barry Wellman and students, "NetLab Lab Tour." Toronto, October 2003.

Barry Wellman, "The Descent of the Internet." Canadian Journalism Fellows, Massey College, Toronto, March 2003.

Barry Wellman, "Work and Network." Knowledge Media Design Institute Core Course, February 2003.

Barry Wellman, Distinguished Senior Commentator, "Infrastructure: Technological, Human and the Intersection Between the Two." School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2002.

Barry Wellman, "Networking Canada." Acceptance Speech for Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award, Laval University, Quebec City, May 2001.

Barry Wellman, "Pass It On!" Social Structure in a Changing World: Presentations in Honour of Barry Wellman ["The Barryfest"]. University of Toronto, April 2001.

Barry Wellman, Howard Rheingold and Others. "Critics’ Corner re Networks in the Global Village," Online Social Networks web discussion, March-April 2001. Available as a CD-ROM and on the web at: http://rheingold.caucus.com/ra1/swebsock/0029483/0162206/ALT1/center.cml?3+0+x+x+x+x+x+x

Barry Wellman, "What Does a Sociologist Do When Studying Computers and the Internet?" Computer and Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Seminar, Univ of Toronto, Nov, 2000.

Barry Wellman, "A Conversation with Barry Wellman." Interval Research, Palo Alto, May 1999.

Barry Wellman. "Judith Merril in Space and Time." Multimedia Presentation, University of California, Berkeley, April 1999.

Barry Wellman. "The Anthropology of Cyberspace: Bodies and Virtual Community." Toronto: Canadian Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology, May, 1998.

Barry Wellman, "The Web, the Net and the University." Latin American and Caribbean Research Center, Florida International Univ, Miami, Feb 1998.

Barry Wellman, "Judy Merril: A Great New York Canadian." Memorial Service, Performing Arts Lodge, Toronto, Sept. 29, 1997, on the occasion of her death, Sept. 12, 1997.

Barry Wellman, "Cool Cats and Hot Nets: Switching Codes and Finding Identity with Harrison White." A Semi-Poetic Toast and Roast in Seven Parts." White Tie Event in Honor of Harrison White, San Diego, Feb., 1997.

Barry Wellman, "The Real World of the Information Highway." Lunchtime Lecture Series, School of Continuing Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Jan, 1997.

Barry Wellman, "The Relevance of Social Network Analysis for Occupational Therapy." Community Occupational Therapists and Associates, Toronto, Nov., 1994.

Barry Wellman. "Disbelief in Authority: JFK, Milgram and Me" (on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Obedience to Authority), American Psychological Association, Toronto, Aug., 1993.

Barry Wellman, "The City: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives." First Joint Symposium, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto and Holy Blossom Temple, May, 1993.

Harriet Friedmann and Barry Wellman, "Perestroika Urban and Rural". Ctr. for Russian and East European Studies, Univ. of Toronto, Nov. 1989.

Barry Wellman, "Condos, Communes and Compuserve," Futures Forum, Spaced-Out Research Library, Toronto Public Libraries, July, 1987.

TEACHING AND MENTORING

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

Urban Sociology, Structural Analysis, Technology and Society, Honours Research Seminar, Modernization and Community, Urban Studies, Introductory Sociology, Social Psychology, Ethnic and Racial Relations

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

Community, Information in Society, Social Network Analysis, Research Methods, Technology and Society

COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS

Barbara Barbosa Neves, 2012. “Internet and Social Capital: An Empirical Study in Lisbon.” (Technical University of Lisbon, co-supervisor)

Tracy L.M. Kennedy, 2011. “Weaving the Home Web: A Canadian Case Study of Internet Domestication.” (supervisor)

Kristen Berg, 2011. “Health Management in the Age of the Internet.” (Social Work, co-supervisor)

Chih-Hui Lai, “Living History with the Internet: Probing the Sustainability of Mixed-Mode Groups Through an Ecological and Evolutionary Lens.” (Communication Science, Rutgers University, committee member)

Rochelle Côté, 2010. “Making Their Way in the Mainstream: Indigenous Entrepeneurs, Social Capital and Performance in Toronto’s Marketplace.” (committee member)

Vincent Chua, 2010. “Social Capital and Inequality in Singapore.” (committee member)

Michael Chi Hung Wu, 2010, “Memory Aids as Collaboration Technology.” (Computer Science, committee member)

Rhonda McEwen, 2009. "A World More Intimate: Exploring the Role of mobile Phones in Maintaining and Extended Social Networks." (Information Studies, co-supervisor)

Maria Majerski, 2009. "Networked Families in America and Canada." (M.A. supervisor).

Anatoliy Gruzd, 2009. “Automated Discovery of Social Networks in Online Learning Communities.” (Graduate School of Information and Library Science, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; committee member)

Bernie Hogan, 2008. "Networking in Everyday Life."

Jessica Collins, 2008. "Chapleau Has Joined the World" (M.A., supervisor)

Wenhong Chen. 2007. "Spanning Transnational Webs: Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Social Networks in the Internet Age." (supervisor).

Juan-Antonio Carrasco, 2006. "Social Activity-Travel Behaviour: A Personal Networks Approach." (Civil Engineering, co-supervisor)

Jeffrey Boase, 2006. "America Online and Offline: The Relationship of Personal Networks to Email and Other Communication Media" (supervisor)

Emmanuel Koku, 2005. "Who Ya Gonna Call? Individual and Structural Determinants of Advice Seeking in Scholarly Networks." (supervisor)

Anabel Quan-Haase, 2004. "Information Brokers and Technology Use: A Case Study of a High-Tech Company." (Information Studies, co-supervisor).

Mark Chapman, 2004. "No Longer Crying in the Wilderness: Canadian Evangelical Organizations and Their Networks." (Religious Studies, co-supervisor).

Alesia Zuccala, 2003. "Investigating the Intellectual Structure and Social Processes of Communication in an Invisible College Network: A Bibliometric and Ethnographic Case Study of Singularity Theory Research in Mathematics." (Information Studies, committee member).

Dimitrina Dimitrova, 2002. "The Telework Mosaic: Forms of Corporate Telework" (co-supervisor).

Keith Hampton, 2001. "Living the Wired Life in the Wired Suburb: Netville, Glocalization and Civil Society." (supervisor).

Susan Bastani, 2001. "Middle Class Community in Iran: Social Networks, Social Support, and Marital Relationships" (supervisor).

Nancy Nazer, 2001. "Operating Virtually with a Hierarchical Framework: How a Virtual Organization Really Works." (supervisor).

N. Scot Wortley, 1996. "Social Networks, Social Support and Substance Abuse: Testing Social Ability and Social Disability Theories of Deviance." (supervisor).

Hanna Rantavuo Lehtimaki, 1996. "To What Extent Do Managerial Relationships in a Finnish Multinational Cross National Boundaries?" (Management Studies, U of Toronto & Tampere U, Finland; co-supervisor).

Caroline Haythornthwaite, 1996. "Media Use in Support of Communication Networks in an Academic Research Environment.". (Information Studies, co-supervisor).

David Tindall, 1993. "Collective Action in the Rain Forest." (committee member).

Caroline Haythornthwaite 1992. (M.I.S.). "Modes of Communication among Computer Scientists." (Information Studies, committee member)

Vicente Espinoza. 1992. "Networks of Informal Economy and the Structure of Urban Communities in Santiago de Chile." (supervisor).

Beverly Wellman (Behavioural Science, M.Sc.) 1990. "Pathways to Back Care." (conjugal consultant).

Wong Yuk-lin (Sociology, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, M.A.) 1987. "Personal Community, Residential Satisfaction and Community Attachment: A Study of Two Estates in Shatlin." (external appraiser).

Joanne Gard Marshall, (Behavioural Science) 1987. "The Adoption and Implementation of Online Information Technology by Health Care Professionals." (internal appraiser).

Kathryn Asbury, 1987. "Embedded Social Control: A Study of the Role of the Apartment Superintendent." (committee member).

Barry Leighton, 1986. "The Experiencing of Community." (supervisor).

R. J. Richardson, 1984. "Toward a `Structural-Rational' Theory of the Functions of Directorship Interlocks." (secondary supervisor).

Liviana Mostacci Calzavara, 1982. "Social Networks and Job Searches: Variations by Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status." (secondary supervisor).

June Corman, 1982. "The Sociological Import of a Crown Corporation: The Potash Corporation of Canada." (supervisor).

Karen Anderson, 1982. "Huron Women and Huron Men." (co-supervisor).

Allan Gilmore, 1978. "Crowding: An Anatomy of a Spurious Paradigm." (co-supervisor).

Ellen Derow, 1977. "Married Women's Employment and Domestic Labour." (co- supervisor).

Linda Gerber, 1976. "Minority Survival: Community Characteristics and Migration from Indian Communities across Canada." (committee member).

Norman Shulman, 1972. "Urban Social Networks: An Investigation of Personal Networks in Urban Setting." (committee member).

Jack Wayne, 1971. "Networks of Informal Participation in a Suburban Context." (committee member).

DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS

Jennifer Kayahara, “Curling Alone? Civic and Political Involvement in Canada.” (Supervisor)

Chang Ze Lin, “The Mobile Revolution.” (supervisor)

Mo Guang Ying, “Sequencing Communication in a Scholarly Network.” (supervisor)

Tsahi (Zack) Hayat, “Structure and Evolution of a Scientific Collaboration Network.” (co-supervisor, Information)

Maryam Fazeel-Zarandi, “Computer-Supported Social Networks.” (Computer Science, committee member)

Pif Edwards, "The Family Quilt." (Computer Science, committee member)

Neha Gondal, “Lower Fertility Rates, Smaller Family Sizes, and Social Networks: A Cross-Cultural Investigation.” (Sociology, Rutgers University, committee member)

POST - DOCTORAL AND COLLEGIAL VISITORS

Bárbara Andreia Barbosa Neves (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal). "How the Internet is Affecting Portuguese Life," 2008, 2011.

Kakuko Miyata (Meiji Gakuin University, Japan). "Comparative Analysis of the Internet in Japanese and Canadian Societies." 2002-2003, 2004, 2005.

Ken’ichi Ikeda (University of Tokyo). "Attitudes and Behaviors Related to the Internet." 2003.

Shinsuke Otani (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan). "Changing Social Networks in Japan." 2002.

Bui, Dinh (Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi). "Networks in a Fishing Village." 2001-2002.

Uwe Matzat (University of Groningen, Netherlands). "Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups." 1999.

Fleur Thomése (Free University of Amsterdam). "Dutch Personal Communities." 1998.

Gustavo Mesch (University of Haifa, Israel). "Ecology, Networks and Social Movements." 1998.

Scott Feld (Louisiana State University). "Mathematical Models of Social Networks." 1997.

J. Jill Suitor (Louisiana State University) "Social Networks Through the Life-Course." 1997.

Masao Nobe (Okiyama University). "Old-Age Networks in Japan and Canada." 1996.

Shinji Nozawa (Shizuoka University). "Community and Kinship in Japan." 1995-1996.

Leslie Howard (Whittier College, Calif). "Links between Canada and Mexico." 1994, 1995.

Suraj Bandyopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta). "Complex Village Relations." 1993.

Francisco Javier Garrido (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), "Municipal Networks in Latin America." 1992-1993.

Shinsuke Otani (Matsuyama University). "Changing Japanese Relationships." 1992-1993.

Endre Sik (Institute of Social Sciences, Budapest). "Informal Economies: Cross-National Comparisons." 1988, 1990, 1992-1993.

Dafna Birnbaum-Carmeli (University of Haifa, Israel). "Perception and Social Relationships in an Israeli Neighborhood." 1991-92.

Song Lin-Fei (Nanjing University, China). "Canadian Urbanization." 1991- 992.

Sebastien Reichmann (CNRS, Paris). "Support Networks for Unemployed French Blue-Collar workers." 1988.

Teaching and Mentoring Awards

Barry Wellman Award, established 1990 by Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto, for year's best undergraduate research paper.

Outstanding Teaching Award, Second Place, Int'l Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, 1996.

Mentoring Award, First Place, International Network for Personal Relationships, 1998.

Teaching praised in “Barry Wellman” Wikipedia entry, November 30, 2007: “Students thoroughly enjoy his classes where they are often taught about social networking and various community and technology interactions through an optimistic sociological perspective. As one of his students put it, ‘he uses his wit and vast understanding of his field of study to not only teach us about how society has changed and will change as a result of technology, but makes this learning process an interactive and entertaining one as well.’”

Teaching-Oriented Publications

Barry Wellman, "How to Write Real Good." (2006).

Barry Wellman, "Mentoring: A Personal Relationship." International Network Newsletter 43 (1998): 5-6.

Barry Wellman, "Urban Sociology: A Canadian Course Syllabus." Comparative Urban Research 7, 1 (1979):42-47. [Revised version in Teaching Community and Urban Sociology Washington, DC: ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1981. Further revised version in Urban Sociology Teaching Resources. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association , 1988.]

Teaching-Oriented Workshops

Barry Wellman, “The Digital Self.” Whittier College, Whittier, CA. November 2006.
Barry Wellman, "Workshop on Writing Refereed Papers for International Journals and Books." Higher Institute of the Social Sciences and Politics, Technical University of Lisbon, June, Two days.
Clarissa Mak, Jeffrey Wong and Barry Wellman. "The Connected Lives Project." 299Y Research Experience Courses Fair, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, March 2006.
Lauren Bot, Julie Wang and Barry Wellman, "The Connected Lives Project." High School Mentorship Fair, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, May 2005.
Lindsay Cai, Aaron Li and Barry Wellman, "The Connected Lives Project." 299Y Research Experience Courses Fair, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, March 2005.
Barry Wellman, Annual lecture to Knowledge Media Design Institute core course, 2001-.
Barry Wellman, "Studying Social Networks Online." Dept de Sociologie, Univ de Toulouse-Le Mirail, June 2001.
Aysan Sev'er and Barry Wellman, "Graduate Workshop on Conference Organizing." Dept of Sociology, Univ. of Toronto, July 2000.
Barry Wellman, "Networks in the Global Village." Long-distance audio workshop with Dept of Sociology, Texas Wesleyan Univ., May 2000.
Barry Wellman, "Workshop on Writing and Editing." Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Toronto, annually, 1990 – 1998, 2004-2006.
Barry Wellman, "Networks for Newbies" (3 hours). International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, annually, since 1985-. Plus workshops for national groups in Britain, Bulgaria, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Peru, Russia, Spain and Taiwan.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AFFAIRS

Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture, with Stanley Lieberson April, 2010
Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture, with Bernice Pescosolido, October, 2009
Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture, with Samuel Clark, April, 2009
Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar, with Paul DiMaggio, November 2008
Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar, with Harrison White, March 2007
Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar, with Nan Lin, November 2007 Program Organizer and Introducer, “Social Network/ing”, Bell University Labs, Toronto, November 2007
Donor’s Representative, van Zo Post Scholarship in Health Care Studies, 2006-
Fields Institute of Mathematics, Advisory Committee on the Keyfitz Lectures in Mathematics and Policy. 2006-2008
Department of Sociology, Search Committee for Social Network Analysis position, 2005-2006
Centre for Urban and Community Studies, Decanal Review and Search Committee, 2005
Department of Sociology, Chair of Computing Committee, 2002-2005; member, 2005-2008.
Department of Sociology Program Representative to KMDI Collaborative Graduate Program, 2001 -
Executive Committee, Dept of Sociology, 2000-2001
Knowledge Media Design Institute, Co-Editor of Technical Report and Working Paper Series, 2001 - 2006
Standing Committee on Academic Appeals, Dept of Sociology, 1999 -
Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) Steering Committee, 1999 -
Knowledge Media Design Institute Decanal Review Committee, 1998.
Nominations Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 1998.
Development Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 1998 -.
Steering Committee, Provostial "Urban Health Initiative," 1995.
Director, Writing Workshop (for Graduate Students), Dept. of Sociology, 1989 - 1995.
Ontario Graduate Scholarships, Provincial Sociology panel, 1994, 1995.
Research Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 1976 - 1990 (usually as Chair)
Advisory Board, Innis College Urban Studies Programme, 1977 - 1990
Director, Structural Analysis Programme, 1979 - 1982
Associate Director, Ctr. for Urban and Community Studies, 1980 - 1984; Exec Committee, 1984-
Board Member, McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology, 1982 - 1993
Research Committee, Programme in Gerontology, 1983 - 1984
Graduate Program Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 1997 - .
Steering Committee, University of Toronto/University of Waterloo Coop. on Info. Technology, 1985 - 1990
Senior Steering Committee, Department of Sociology, 1992 - 1997.
Research Coordinator, Dept. of Sociology, 1987 - 1990
Project Director, High School Mentorship Program, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1987 -
Review/Chair Search Committee: Ctr. for Urban and Community Studies, 1987 - 1988"
Board Member, EPAS/CHASS Computer Centre, 1987 - 1990, 1992 - 1997
Editor, Working Paper Series, Dept. of Sociology, 1988 - 1990
Principal author, "Some Suggestions for Undergraduate Methods Instruction" (with Clayton Mosher), Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1989
Review/Chair Search Committee: Dept. of Sociology, 1990
Faculty of Arts & Science Committee on Effective Writing, 1992 - 1996

OTHER ACTIVITIES

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Sociological Association., including sections on: Communication and Information Technologies (chair 2004-2005); Community and Urban Sociology (chair 1998-1999); Organizations, Occupations and Work; Science, Knowledge and Technology
Association for Computing Machinery (including Computers and Human Interaction section)
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
International Communications Association (including section on Communications and Technology)
International Network for Social Network Analysis
International Sociological Association., including Community, Family, and Urban Research Committees
Sociological Research Association (chair 2004-2005)
Committee Member, Application of Mathematics to Open Problems in the Social Sciences, Polimetrica Institute, 2006-

CONFERENCE and SESSION (CO-)ORGANIZING

Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute, 2012-
Co-Organizer, “A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society” Oxford Internet Institute and Information Communication & Society, Sept 2011, Oxford.
Three sessions on Internet and Communication Technologies: “Digital Divides in the Internet Age,” “Networked Individuals On and Off the Internet,” and “Social Participation On and Off the Internet.” American Sociological Association, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, August 2011.
Organizer and Introducer, S.D. Clark Lecture, with Ronald S. Burt, October, 2011
S.D. Clark Seminar with Maurice Zeitlin, April 2011
S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar with Viviana Zelizer, November 2010
S.D. Clark Seminar with Stanley Lieberson, April 2009
S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar, with Bernice Pescolodio, November 2009
S.D. Clark Seminar with Samuel Clark, March 2009
S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar, with Paul DiMaggio, November 2008
“Do ICTs Foster Social Connectivity or Social Isolation? Evaluating Cross-National Evidence.” Panel organizer, International Communication Association, Montréal, May 2008 S.D. Clark Seminar with Harrison White, April 2008
"Do ICTs Foster Social Connectivity or Social Isolation? Evaluating Cross-National Evidence” panel, International Communication Association, Montréal, May 2008
"Social Connectivity” panel, International Sunbelt Social Network Association, annual meeting. St. Petersburg, FL, January 2007
S.D. Clark Lecture and Seminar, with Nan Lin, November 2007
"Social Network/ing, " Bell University Labs, Toronto, November 2007.
"Transnational Immigrant Entrepreneurs" Conference, Toronto, July 2007
"Transnational Networks" (with Wenhong Chen), American Sociological Association, Montreal, Aug 2006
"Connected Lives in a Canadian Context," Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association conference, London, Ont., May 2005."Internet and Society" session, American Sociological Association conference, San Francisco, August 2004.
International Board of Advisors, German Online Research conference, Duisburg-Essen, March 2004.
Tour Guide, Tour of NetLab, Association of Internet Researchers conference, Toronto, October 2003.
Local Arrangements Resource, AoIR Conference, Toronto, October 2003.
Consultant, IBM Social Technology Group, June 2001: How to Study Social Networks at Work.
Chair, Steering Committee AoIR-Toronto, 2002-2003: Organizing group for the 2003 Association of Internet Researchers conference in Toronto
Consultant, "Federalism and Federations Research Workshop," Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Privy Council Office, May, 2001.
Panel (with Caroline Haythornthwaite), "Constructing and Using Social Networks in Cyberspace." Association for Internet Research founding conference, Lawrence, KS, Sept 2000.
Panel (with Caroline Haythornthwaite), "Community On and Offline." Association for Internet Research founding conference, Lawrence, KS, Sept 2000.
Workshop: "Research Issues in the Design of Online Communities." CHI 99, Pittsburgh, May, 1999.
"Human Centered Computing" Faculty-Graduate Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, 1999.
Program Chair, Community and Urban Sociology section, American Sociological Association conference, San Francisco, Aug, 1998.
"Community, City, Cyberspace" session, American Sociological Association conference, San Francisco, Aug, 1998.
"Computer Networks as Social Networks" session, International Soc Network conference, Barcelona (Sitges), May, 1998
Advisory Committee & Participant, Workshop on Advances in Organizational and Social Informatics, Bloomington, IN, Nov, 1997.
Sociological Research Association, Annual Meeting and Banquet, Toronto, Aug., 1997
Community and Urban Sociology section reception and executive committee meeting, Amer Soc Assoc, Toronto, Aug., 1997
"The Internet and the Sociological Landscape," American Sociological Association conference, Aug, 1997.
"Social Network Analysis" 10-day workshop for First All-Swiss Graduate Summer School in the Social Sciences, July - Aug., 1997
"WhiteTie Event": Festschrift for Harrison White, San Diego, Feb, 1997.
Tillyfest, International conference in honour of Charles Tilly, Univ of Toronto, Oct, 1995.
"Personal Relationships and Social Networks," International Conference on Personal Relationships, Banff, July, 1996.
"Contextual & Structural Perspectives on Relationships," Internatonal Society for Personal Relationships, 1993 -.
"Network Methods" session, Research Methods committee, International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, Ger, Aug., 1994.
Sessions on: "Computer Networks as Social Networks", "Personal Community: Theoretical Interpretations", "Personal Communities and Social Support: International Perspectives", "Personal Communities through the Life-Cycle". Int'l Sunbelt Social Network Conf., New Orleans, Feb., 1994.
"Networks in the Global Village," Amer Soc Assoc, Miami Beach, Aug., 1993.
"Personal Communities and Social Support," Int'l Sunbelt Social Network Conf., Tampa, Feb, 1993; New Orleans, Feb, 1994.
"Introduction to Social Network Analysis" workshops, Sunbelt Social Network Conf., 1989, 1991-.
"Networks in the Global Village." International Sunbelt Social Network Conference San Diego, 1992; Tampa, 1993.
"Telepresence: Its Design and Opportunities for Social Science Research." Institut de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire sur les Environmments d'Apprentissage et de Communication de Savoirs (IRPEACS), Lyon, 1991.
"Politics of Language in Multiethnic Societies," American Sociological Assoc., Cincinnati, 1991.
Series of Network Analysis sessions, World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, 1990.
Symposium on Network Analysis over a Decade, Int'l Conf. on Personal Relationships, Oxford, 1990.
Close Relationships Conf., Nags Head, NC, 1990.
International Symposium on the Ethnic Crisis in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Academy of Science, 1990. [North American co-organizer].
Three sessions on social network analysis, World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, 1986.
"The Community Question Re-evaluated" session, American Sociological Assoc., New York City, 1986. [also keynote speaker].
"Networking, Moving, Connecting, Supporting: Getting, Maintaining and Using Supportive Social Networks" (with Beverly Wellman). Wellness `86 conference, Toronto, Dec., 1986.
Computers and Society seminar, McLuhan Programme, University of Toronto, 1985 - 1988.
Structural Analysis session, North Central Sociological Assoc., 1982.
Social Networks session, American Sociological Assoc., San Francisco, 1978.
Social Network Symposium, World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala, Sweden, 1978.
"New Directions in Structural Analysis" colloquium, University of Toronto, 1978.
Community session, American Sociological Assoc., Chicago, 1977.
Conf. on Social Network Research, World Congress of Sociology, 1974, Toronto.
"Utopias: Real and Imaginary," Eastern Sociological Society, 1971, New York.
"New Algebraic Models for the Study of Social Structure" conference, Cambridge MA, 1973.
"Do Networks Matter?" conference, Camden ME, 1972, sponsored by the Math. Social Sciences Board.

CONSULTING

Consultant to Chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada on Strategic Directions, 2011-2012
University of Saskatchewan, Department of Sociology. How to Set Up a Social Networks Lab.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Culture and Society group, Networked Individualism, September 2009.
Telus Canadians and Technology study, 2009.
“Does Distance Matter Project,” Nokia Research, Bangalore, India, 2008.
Chicago Ethnic Community Study [Anthony Orum], 2008.
Bao, Chinese Transnational Networks, Advisory Board, 2007
Center for the Digital Future, World Internet Project, Los Angeles. Participation in defining and creating 2007 WIP survey. November-December 2006.
WeMeUs Advisory Board (social software startup), 2006 -
Networks and Spatial Mobility. Jump Associates, 2006.
Social Capital and Resource Generator questions. Statistics Canada and Policy Research Secretariat, 2004.
"Social Networks among Physicians." KonvergeandKnow. 2003-2004.
Building Arab-Israeli Cooperation Through Health Research." Canada International Scientific Exchange Program (CISEPO), 2003 -.
"Social Capital and Deconcentration: Theoretical and Policy Paradoxes of the HOPE VI Program"," National Science Foundation funded, Prof. Susan Greenbaum, Dept. of Anthropology, University of South Florida, 2003 - 2005
"Social Networks Among School Professionals," NSF-Funded, Bill Penuel, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, 2003-2006.
Global Consumer Advisory Board, Advanced Micro Devices [AMD], Sunnyvale, CA, 2002-2004.
Mitel Networks, Strategic Technology Group, Ottawa, 2000-2004.
"Network of Experts", Office of Learning Technology, Human Resources Development Canada. 2000 - 2001.
France Telecom, Delphi Study of Effects of Mobile Internet on Corporate Organizations and Their Relationships with Customers, Suppliers and Partners, 2000 - 2001. Published in Marc Grosser and Véronique Singer, "L'Internet Mobile Changera-t-il Les Entreprises?" Cahiers du Groupe Bernard Brunhes, No. 9, June 2002.
Sherpa Ears, Board of Technical Advisors, 2000. [software start-up firm to develop network communities]
U.S. General Social Survey (2000) Module on the Use of the Internet and Web, 1999 - 2000
Canadian General Social Survey (2000) Module on the Internet and Web, 1999 - 2000.
"Survey 2000" Advisory Board, National Geographic Magazine, 1998-2000.
"Wired Communities," Center for Strategic Technology Research (C*STAR), Andersen Consulting, 1999
"The Internet and the Consumer," Boston Consulting Group, Themes for CEO-St. Gallen Conference on New Trends in Computing and Society 1999.
"Organizational Networks of Canadian Health Care Organizations." Canadian Health Network, 1998.
"Intergenerational Equity," Statistics Canada, 1997.
"Building Virtual Community," International Data Corp, Toronto, 1997
"Developing North-South Scholarly Networks." Janice Stein and Richard Stren for Int'l Dev Res Centre, 1997.
"Measuring Social Support Networks." Leroy Stone, Statistics Canada, 1997.
"Elliott Lake Tracking and Adjustment Study," Elaine Porter and Derek Wilkinson, Laurentian University, 1996 - 1997.
"Using the Information Highway," Publications Committee, American Sociological Assoc., 1995.
"Using the Information Highway," Electronic Media Advisor, Int'l Sociological Assoc., 1995.
"Pathways to Alternative Health-Care" Project, Merrijoy Kelner & Beverly Wellman, Centre for Studies of Aging, University of Toronto, 1994-1998
"Kenya Women's Discussion Networks," Susan Cott Watkins, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. 1994-1995.
"Ethnicity, Economic Stress and Adaptation in Families." Prof. Ross Parke, et al. (University of California, Riverside), U.S. National Institutes of Health, 1994 - 2001.
National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health (UCLA), 1993-1999.
Centre for Studies of the Future, Central Mortgage and Housing Corp, "Community and Social Support in Canadian Social Housing," 1993.
Providence Villa Hospital [research design], 1986 - 1988; 1992.
Evaluation of Income Tax Program, Neighbourhood Information Ctr., East York (Toronto), 1991.
Sociological Aspects of Alcohol and Drug Use, Health and Welfare Canada, 1988 - 1992.
Chairman, Dept. of Sociology, Tirana University, Albania, 1990.
Immigration and Refugee Board, Ministry of Employment and Immigration, 1990.
Population Studies Division, Statistics Canada "Population Aging in Canada," 1986.
Visiting Evaluator, Mathematics/Social Sciences Program, Dartmouth College, March, 1981.
"Crime and Urban Neighborhoods" project. National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, 1981.
"The Quality of Life on the Urban Rim." Toronto Social Planning Council, 1977 - 1978.
"Child Care Networks" project, University of Toronto, School of Social Work, 1978.
NSF sponsored ongoing computer conference (EIES) on "Human Communication via Computers: Research Options and Alternatives." 1977 - 1981.
Cole, Sherman and Associates, Planners and Engineers. [Reports to the Ont. Min. of Transportation on the impact of new highway corridors and new forms of transportation systems, 1971 - 75.]

REFEREEING

JOURNALS and CONFERENCES:
Acta Sociologica; Administrative Science Quarterly; American Journal of Community Psychology; American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Annual Review of Sociology;
Canadian Journal of Sociology; Canadian Journal of Urban Research; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology; City and Community; City and Society; Communication Research; Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery; Community and Technology [conferences, Amsterdam 2003; Milan 2005], Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory; Contexts; Criminology; CSCW; CSCW [conference]; Cultural Anthropology;
Environment and Behavior; Ethnic and Racial Studies; European Journal of Sociology; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences [HICSS]; Human Biology; Human Organization; information Communication and Society; The Information Society; Information Systems Research; International Journal of Communication; International Journal of Internet Science; International Sociology;
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Journal of Computer Mediated Communication; Journal of Health and Social Behavior; Journal of Media and Religion; Journal of Online Behavior; Journal of Personal and Social Relationships; Journal of Rural Studies; Journal of Social Issues; Journal of Social Structure;
New Media and Society; Personal Relationships; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Psychology and Aging; Quantitative Anthropology; Research in Community and Urban Sociology; Rural Sociology;
Social Forces; Social Networks; Social Problems; Social Psychology Quarterly; Social Science and Medicine; Social Science Quarterly; Sociological Focus; Sociological Forum; Sociological Inquiry; Sociological Perspectives; Sociological Quarterly; Sociological Research Online; Social Theory; Structure and Dynamics;
Urban Affairs Quarterly; Urban Policy and Research; Urban Studies; Work and Occupations.

AGENCIES [for Sociology, except as noted]:
Basque Foundation for Science; British Columbia Medical Council [psychiatry]; Economic and Social Research Council (UK); Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique; Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'aide a la Recherche [Quebec]; Fulbright (Council for International Exchange of Scholars); Health and Welfare Canada; Hebrew University Institute of Advanced Studies; Israel Science Foundation; [U.S.] National Institute for Mental Health [sociology, social psychology, public health]; [U.S.] National Science Foundation [sociology, information science]; Ontario Mental Health Foundation [public health]; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada [sociology, psychology, economics, geography]; Statistics Canada [gerontology], United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

PUBLISHERS:
Academic Press, American Sociological Assoc. "Rose Series," Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, MacArthur Foundation, McGraw-Hill, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Prentice-Hall, Random House, Sage, University of Toronto Press, Westview Press.

APPOINTMENTS, THESES, PROMOTIONS AND TENURE [for Sociology, except as noted]:
Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Arizona, Brown [Government], California (Berkeley, Davis [Sociology, Communication], Irvine, Los Angeles [Sociology, Information], Riverside, Santa Barbara [Communication]), Columbia, Cornell [Communication], Dartmouth [Mathematics Social Science], Edinburgh [Theology], Florida [Public Health], Groningen, Haifa [Information, Sociology], Harvard [Government, Kennedy School] Hebrew, Humboldt, IBM, Illinois (Champaign-Urbana [Info Science], Chicago), Indiana [Information], Kansas [Communication], Leicester [Media], Laurentian, Louisiana State,

Manchester [Arts], Massachusetts (Amherst), Massachusetts Institute of Technology [Urban Studies], Michigan [Communication, Information, Sociology], Microsoft, National Univ of Ireland (Maynooth), National U of Singapore, Newcastle [Planning], New Jersey Institute of Technology [Information Systems], Notre Dame (Kellogg Inst), North Carolina (Greensboro), Northwestern, Occidental, Open University of Israel (Information), Pennsylvania [Commmunication], Pittsburgh, Rensselaer Polytechnic [Communication], Rutgers [Communication, Information], Simon Fraser [Communication], South Florida [Anthro], Southern California [Annenberg Schl. of Communication], Southampton, State University of New York (Albany, Purchase, Stony Brook), Syracuse [Political Science], Tulane, Vanderbilt, Waterloo, Washington [Information].

MEDIA

2012

Twitter and relationship research reported by Jamie Beckman, “Twitter Friends: It May be a Good Idea to Meet Up.” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2012. http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-twitter-friends-20120407,0,7428542.story

Hannah Hoag, “Barry Wellman, University of Toronto: HiBAR score: 59. Toronto Globe and Mail, March 27, 2012, pp. B8-B9, for story that I have the highest h-index of Canadian sociologists

Sharon Jayson, “Technology can push our crazy buttons, rewire brains,” USA Today, March 26, 2012, http://yourlife.usatoday.com/mind-soul/story/2012-03-26/Technology-can-push-our-crazy-buttons-rewire-brains/53792424/1

Twitter research reported by Alyshah Hasham in Toronto Star, March 22, 2011. “Twitter’s birthday: Six tweet years already?” http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1149710--twitter-s-birthday-six-tweet-years-already

Interviewed by Shankar Vedantam, NPR (radio, U.S.) about internet, twitter, and community – local and non-local. Broadcast February 21, 2012 on Morning Edition as Steve Inskeep and Shankar Vedantam, “Why Twitter Ties Resemble Airline Hub Maps.” http://www.npr.org/2012/02/21/147180159/why-twitter-ties-resemble-airline-hub-maps Story also discussed in other news media, such as Slate, Feb 21-22, 2012: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/02/21/twitter_connections_are_like_air_traffic_.html

2011

“Facebook Users Mull Bidding Farewell.” Interviewe with Ashley Rowe for CTV Toronto News, December 15, 2011. http://toronto.ctv.ca/?video=586789

“Geography of Twitter” research discussed in entire column by Prof. Richard Florida, “How Place Proves That Place Matters.” The Atlantic [Monthly] Cities: Place Matters. December 7, 2011. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2011/12/how-twitter-proves-place-matters/663/

Research discussed by Matthew Brashears on Fox News Live, November 15, 2011. http://video.foxnews.com/v/1276887847001/more-online-friends-less-real-ones/?playlist_id=162726

Feature article about research by Robert Sibley, “Social media fostering ‘networked individualism,’ sociologist says,” Ottawa Citizen, November 1, 2011. Based on lecture at Carleton University. (Story reprised in University of Toronto Bulletin, November 2, 2011) http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Social+media+fostering+networked+individualism+sociologist+says/5641802/story.html.

Interviewed by Tina Verma, Producer, “The Nature of Things,” CBC-TV, October 2011.

Discussed feature article on Marshall McLuhan’s legacy with Michael Valpy, Toronto Globe and Mail, June 2011.

On-camera participant, Documentary by Rabea Parpia, University of Toronto Schools, May 2011.

Interviewed and research discussed by Alex Williams, "Quality Time, Redefined." New York Times Styles section about how families interact at home while using their computers. April 29, 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fashion/01FAMILY.html

Research discussed by Lisa Belkin, “Families at (Parallel) Play,” New York Times blog, April 29, 2011. http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/families-at-parallel-play/?scp=1&sq=Belkin%20Families%20at%20Parallel%20Play&st=cse

Interviewed and research with Hua Wang discussed by Alison Lobron, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, for "Clicking" [friendship on/offline], March 13, 2011
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2011/03/13/turning_online_friends_into_real_world_ones_can_be_tricky/

2010

Interviewed and quoted in Lisa Selin Davis, “The Trouble with Facebook’s New ‘See Friendship’ Feature.” TIME, November 18, 2010. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20101119/us_time/08599203203000

Interviewed by Alexandra Schmidt, (US) National Public Radio about whether Facebook is keeping people away from face-to-face meetings with weak ties (or not), November 2010.

Interviewed and quoted in Dakshana Bascaramurty, “Wanted: someone to play/climb/sing with.” Toronto Globe and Mail, September 27 2010, p. L6.

Interviewed and quoted about Internet and family life by John Keilman, “Despite Some Blips, Most See Technology as Boon for Family Life.” Chicago Tribune, August 22 2010.

“Social Connectivity in America” discussed in “Is True Friendship Dying Away?” All About Jazz blog, July 28, 2010. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=61524

Interviewed about Internet and family life by John Keilman, Chicago Tribune, July 27 2010.

“Social Connectivity in America” research quoted and discussed by Bella DePaulo, “Are Americans Becoming More and More Isolated?,” Psychology Today Blog, July 18, 2010. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201007/are-americans-becoming-more-and-more-isolated Further discussed by Dr DePaulo in “Americans Have More Friends, and Not Just on Facebook", Huffington Post, July 26, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bella-depaulo/americans-have-more-frien_b_658903.html

“Everyone is an information socialist at 20 and an information capitalist at 50.” Quote in the Millenial Generation report of the Pew Internet and American Life project reported by Judy Woodruff, “Social Media in 2020 and Beyond,” PBS Newshour Rundown News Blog, July 9, 2010. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/07/social-media-in-2020-and-beyond.html

Collaborative research reported by Jonathan Arkin, “Doctoral Student Publishes Research in Prestigious Journal,” CommLine Online, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California. June 23 2010.

Trust not the cloud for reliability, security and privacy” comment in The Future of Cloud Computing, Pew Internet report by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/The-future-of-cloud-computing.aspx?r=1 Quoted in USA Today, PC Magazine, and widely read blogs such as Mashable, Ars Technica and Forbes.com. June 11, 2010.

Interviewed by and featured in Felix Grant, “Only Connect: Fleix Grant Looks at the Application of Data Analysis Software to Social Networks.” Scientific Computing World, June 2010: http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=277

Interviewed by Simon Houpt, “Tell a Friend: Companies Flock to Word-of-Mouth Marketing,” for story about Hook [telephone company] using friendship recommendations and incentives for internet phone purchases.Toronto Globe and Mail, April 16, 2010. p. B6

Interviewed and quoted by Debby Waldman, June 2009, for “Going to the Conference? We’ll See You On-line,” University Affairs, April 2010, pp. 20-23. www.universityaffairs.ca

Research reported by Tom Barlett, “Friend Request: Confirm or Ignore?” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2010

Interviewed and quoted by Eric Adler and Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, “Constant techno communication brings lack of focus and loss of privacy,” March 14, 2010. http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/13/1810942/with-technology-putting-people.html

On-air interview with Janice Golding, CTV News," How Much Do Teens Like Being Wired? A Whole Lot". January 20, 2010. www.toronto.ctv.ca

Interviewed by Michael Valpy, Toronto Globe and Mail, for story about Facebook petition against Prime Minister Harper’s proroguing of Parliament, January 19, 2010.

2009

Interviewed by Kevin Helliker, Wall Street Journal, about the minority who do not use the Internet, December 17, 2009

Skype interview with Howard Rheingold for book he is preparing on the essential literacies, December 13, 2009

Visiting lecture reported, “E Wellman spiega la Triple revolution,” Messaggero Veneto, Cronaca di Udine, November 30, 2009.

Interviewed and quoted by Riccardo Stagliano’, “Il Futuro dopo le E-mail”. La Repubblica, Rome, November 30, 2009, pp. R2: 29-31.

Concept of “network(ed) individualism” featured in “What Canadians Really Believe” cover story, Macleans magazine, November 30, 2009:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/20/what-canadians-really-believe-2/

Interviewed and quoted by Jeanna Bryner, “40 Years Ago: The Message that Conceived the Internet,” LiveScience feature service about transformation associated with the internet. October 28, 2009. Appears in multiple venues, including:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/091028-internet-human-nature.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091029/sc_livescience/40yearsagothemessagethatconceivedtheinternet
Interviewed by Riccardo Stagliano', La Repubblica, Rome, about whether email is being replaced by other social media. October 19, 2009.

Interviewed by AJ Vickery for GetConnected syndicated Canadian national radio show, “Canadian Children and the Internet” about Telus Canadians and Technology survey about family relations. October 5, 2009. www.getconnectedmedia.com/radio/Canadian-children-and-internet-why-not-netbooks.

Interviewed by Tim Wilson, Telemanagement Magazine,Sept 30, 2009, re the embedding of the internet in everyday life.

Interviewed on air by Simi Sara for “The Simi Sara Show” CFUN Talk Radio 1410, Vancouver, Sept. 29, about Telus Canadians and Technology survey.

Interviewed and quoted by Sharon Jayson, “‘Flocking’ Behavior Lands on Social Networking Sites,” USA Today, about the nature of social networks and communities, Sept. 28, 2009. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-27-social-networking_N.htm

Interviewed by Bill Hutchison, CTV Webmania, Sept. 26, 2009 about parent/child use of the Internet, based on Telus Canadians and Technology survey.

Interviewed and quoted by Ameet Sachdev, “Trademark Suit Complicated IBM’s Takeover of SPSS.” Chicago Tribune, September 25 2009; about role of SPSS in academia, with regard to the legal battle between SPSS, purchaser IBM and co-founder Norman Nie.

Interviewed and quoted by Katie Schneider, “Kids Know the Signs on Tech Highway.” Calgary Sun, September 23, 2009 about Telus Canadians and Technology survey. Revised for “Live without the Web? That's Mental, say Teens” Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun, September 22.

Interviewed on air by Beverly Thompson, Canada AM (CTV Network), “Families Embracing Technologies: Study” about Telus Canadians and Technology survey. “Sociology professor Barry Wellman says the study on how people feel about technology busts several myths, including the idea that people don't like technology because it isolates them.” http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam Sept 22, 2009

Interviewed on air by Sean O’Shea, Global TV Ontario Network, “Consumer SOS: Connected Kids,” about Telus Canadians and Technology survey. Sept 22, 2009. http://www.globaltoronto.com/video/index.html

Interviewed (joint with Wenhong Chen) about glocalism by Scott Payne for Mother Jones magazine, Sept. 2, 2009.

Interviewed by Nicole Washburn, Deseret News, about technology and social relations. Sept 2, 2009

Interviewed and quoted by Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press, “Don’t Post That! Networking Etiquette Emerges” – about evolving etiquette on Facebook and Twitter, Sept. 4 2009. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090904/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_etiquette Reprinted in USA Today, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, MSNBC.msn.com, Salon, etc. (> 220)
Article reorganized to emphasize my work in the Toronto Metro, September 8, 2009, p.6: “Evolving Online Etiquette: U of T Sociologist Suggests Guarding Your Thoughts in

Quoted by Warren Clements, “Word Play”, Toronto Globe and Mail, August 15 2009, about an inappropriate metaphor: Footballer Terrell Owens saying mass media shouldn’t be “kicking a dead horse” when criticizing footballer and convicted dog-fighting entrepreneur Michael Vick. And in the same column, August 29, about constructed words such as "twedit" in Twitter.

Interviewed by Brad Stone, New York Times, about how people check multiple technologies when they awake, July 2009.

Interviewed and quoted by Martha Irving, Associated Press, for story about young adults’ use of technology in the workplace; “Workplace Internet Filters Sometimes Backfire.” July 10 2009. CBS News.com; San Jose Mercury News, etc. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12813445?source=rss

Interviewed and quoted by Luann Lasalle, Canadian Press, for “From Pillow Fights to Mass Moonwalking, ‘Flash Mobs’ Bring People Together.” July 8, 2009. Winnipeg Free Press, etc. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/sci_tech/From-pillow-fights-to-mass-moonwalking_-_flash-mobs_-bring-people-together.html

Interviewed by Chris Null and David Downs, May 2009 for separate stories about "netiquette," to appear in Wired magazine, August 2009.

Interviewed by Teddy Wilson about Fragmented Connectivity and Social Networking for The Circuit, Space TV, May, 2009. http://www.spacecast.com/Shows/TheCircuit.aspx

Work on communication networks in offices featured in Susan Pinker, “Face time is crucial to morale and productivity,” Toronto Globe and Mail, May 20, 2009. p. B14. (Interviewed March 2009).
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090520.CAPINKER20/TPStory/?query=pinker

Featured in Steve Tilley, “Twitter Pated: The Reality is that Twitter is Just a Tool.” Edmonton Sun (and other Sun media newspapers), May 3, 2009. [“Twitter is what you make of it."] http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2009/05/03/9330191-sun.html

Interviewed by Motoko Rich, New York Times, “Crowd Forms Against an Algorithm” about false rumor of Amazon being gay-unfriendly spreading rapidly on Twitter as “#Amazonfail,” April 18, 2009

Featured in story and on-air interview about “Connected Lives” by Mallory Hardin, Arkansas Today, KARK Channel 4, Little Rock, April 14, 2009.

Featured in story and on-air interview about “Connected Lives” by Craig O’Neill, KTHV News, Channel 11, Little Rock, April 14, 2009. http://www.todaysthv.com/video/default.aspx?aid=82494

Interviewed by Stephanie Campbell, New York Times, about senior citizens’ use of social software, April 2009.

Interviewed by Vivian Song, Sun Media, about how social software affects interpersonal relationships, April 2009

Interviewed by Brad Stone, New York Times, for story about Facebook with 200 Million, March 2009

Featured in “Lent’s Most Controversial Sacrifice: Facebook,” by Erin Anderssen. Toronto Globe and Mail, March 7, 2009. www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090306.wgtfacebook07/BNStory/Technology/home

Interviewed by Shannon Proudfoot, Canwest for story about the number of friends and civic involvement, November 9, 2008. Published Vancouver Sun, etc. January 17, 2009 as “Face-to-Face Friendships in Decline.”

Research reported on by Julia Angwin, “The Art of Making Online Friends.” Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123128017588258741.html

2008

Interview with Richard Cuthbertson about Statistics Canada and Connected Lives research, “Internet is Altering Our Relationships,” Calgary Herald, December 5, 2008.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Internet+altering+relationships/1034978/story.html Story summarized in Amelia, “The two-sided tale of the internet,” in American Sociological Association’s Context Crawler, December 9, 2008. http://contexts.org/crawler/

Background interview with Jennifer Senior for “Alone Together,” New York [magazine], December 2008.

Research reported by Shiv Singh in “Academia Meets Social Marketing,” Adweek.com, November 12, 2008.
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/community/columns/other-columns/e3i561563ef885396db1fea6c95255a03a4?pn=1

Interviewed in conjunction with various media for the Pew Internet report, “Networked Families”, October 19, 2008:
Jon Gordon, “Future Tense”, Minnesota Public Radio / NPR, October 20, 2008
Donna St. George, “Internet, Cellphones May Strengthen Family Unit, Study Finds.” Washington Post, October 20, 2008, p. A7.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901346.html?sub=AR Alana Semuels, “Internet brings families closer, study says” Los Angeles Times Techblog, October 20, 2008. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/10/internet-brings.html
Janet Kornblum, “Text messaging taps out a family-friendly result”, USA Today, October 19, 2008, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2008-10-19-family-texting_N.htm
Stanley Miller, “Technology shapes family lives, study finds: Households with parents, children are most likely to use cell phones, Internet to stay connected” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 20, 2008. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=807734
Plus press release reported in 50+ news sites and blogs, including:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7679734.stm

Interviewed and quoted by Michael Valpy, Toronto Globe and Mail columnist for “Vote-switchers add spice to Thanksgiving meal.” October 11, 2008.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081011.welxndinner/BNStory/politics/home

Interviewed by Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle, for feature story about Google’s 10 th anniversary, “Google Reigns as the World’s Most Powerful 10-Year Old,” Sept 5, 2008.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/MNQA12JJ1F.DTL

Transnational entrepreneurial research (with Wenhong Chen) featured in Michael Valpy, “A Beacon of Fairness”. Canada Day Issue, Toronto Globe and Mail, July 1, 2008.

Interviewed by Chris Emery, Baltimore Sun, for “DNA tests, coupled with Internet, connect relatives”. April 27, 2008. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/Apr/27/dna-tests-coupled-with-internet-connect/

Interviewed about Netville research by Jannik Eikenaar, February 11, 2008 for Bell Mobility’s Mobility magazine, Summer 2008, p. 11.

Interviewed about NetLab’s research by Prof. Yong Hak Kim, for Chosun Daily’s “new civilization research” feature series: “A New Form of Civilization is Arriving: The Creation of Anonymous Majority Doing the Common Good is the Lead Within the Internet Time.” February 28, 2008. (In Korean)

Interviewed by Joel Garreau, Washington Post, January 28 2008, for feature story on the implications of the global proliferation of mobile phones.

Interviewed and quoted for Liz Kay, “MySpace will Act to Safeguard Teenagers.” Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2008.

Interviewed and quoted by Chris Emery for “A Web Network for Every Niche.” Baltimore Sun, January 3, 2008.

Interviewed by Ruth Davis Konigsberg, about networked individualism, for December 19, 2007, for story to appear in Allure, August 2008.

2007

Interviewed by Chris Emery, Baltimore Sun, about transformation of social networks. December 18, 2007.

Interviewed by Eric Weiner, National Public Radio (NPR, US) for “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves”: feature story on how cellphones are affecting life. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17587238&ft=1&f=1006

Featured, “Fashion Networks” as “eminent scholar in social network and internet studies”. December 2007, www.fashion-networks.com

Interviewed by Paul Bennun and Joby Waldman for “Liquid Living”, BBC Radio 3 documentary about the effects of virtual interaction, December 2, 2007.

On-air live interview, “Emoticons,” The Current, CBC Radio 1, September 26, 2007.

Interviewed and quoted by Danny Bradbury for cover story: “Net.working: Your Next Client, Partner, Investor, Employee or Job May be Waiting for You on MySpace or Linkedin,” Broadband, September 2007, pp. 28-31. http://www.backbonemag.com/Magazine/CoverStory_09070701.asp

Interviewed and quoted by Tobi Cohen, “Single-Person Households Grow.” Canadian Press [Toronto Star, etc.], September 13, 2007. http://www.thestar.com/News/article/25570.

Research quoted in Anne Truitt Zelenka, “Friendship in the Connected Age: Higher Quantity AND Higher Quality,” A Blog About the Connected Age, www.annezelenka.com. August 27, 2007.

Interviewed and quoted in Monica Hesse, “An Unmanageable Circle of Friends: Social-Network Sites Inundate Us with Connections, and That Can be Alienating.” Washington Post, August 26, 2007, p. M10.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082400481.html

Interviewed and provided background information for I-Caught, ABC-TV, September 11, 2007.

Interviewed by Siri Agrell for “BFF [Best Friends Forever] After All These Years.” Toronto Globe and Mail, August 2, 2007.

“Transnational Immigrant Enterprises: The Chinese-Canadian Experience.” (with Wenhong Chen), OMNI-TV News, July 19, 2007. Also interviewed (with Wenhong Chen), July 19, 2007, on this theme by Fairchild TV (Chinese Canadian cable station) and by CCTV – the huge Chinese state broadcasting network. Newspaper stories (July 19, also with Wenhong Chen) in three Canadian Chinese-language newspapers: Ming Pao, Sing Tao, and Today

Interviewed by Danny Bradbury, July 5, 2007 for story about social networking software for businesses, Broadband magazine (forthcoming: Sept, 2007).

Interviewed by Catherine Ryan for a feature story social isolation, Self magazine, June 26, 2007.

Linda Du, “華商移民58%攻主流多大研究指42%跨國經營 逾七成當中加橋樑” [“58% of Chinese immigrants focus on domestic business, the study carried out by University of Toronto shows 42% of Chinese immigrants are engaged in transnational business, and more than 70% of them bridge Canada and China”] Ming Pao Daily, Toronto, July 11, 2007.
http://www.mingpaotor.com/htm/News/20070711/taa1.htm [Slightly edited version in Ming Pao Daily, Vancouver edition: http://www.mingpaovan.com/htm/News/20070516/vaa1h.htm ]

Interviewed with Wenhong Chen for feature story by Joanne Lee-Young, “The New Entrepreneurs.” Vancouver Sun, May 28, 2007. www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=8

“Business links strong for Chinese immigrants to Canada,” by Tavia Grant. Feature story on Chen-Wellman “Transnational International Entrepreneurs” study, Toronto Globe and Mail, May 16, 2007. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20070516.RCHINASTUDY16%2FTPStory%2F%3Fquery%3Dwellman&ord=11318021&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

Interviewed and quoted by Allison Jones for Canadian Press story, “Facebook incidents prompt calls for schools, students to study issue more closely,” May 10, 2007. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=ec79e1d8-a3a0-4fc5-a15a-ea2acd7680be&k=98069

Interviewed by Allison Enright for Marketing News about the nature of community in Web 2.0. April 24, 2007.

“Connected Lives and Networked Individualism: The Internet in Everyday Life.” Broadcast of S.D. Clark Inaugural Lecture (October 2006) on “Big Ideas,” TV Ontario, March 10, 2007. http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas

Feature story by Shin Yong-bae, Korea Herald, about research with Anabel Quan-Haase on networked organizations, “Internet Access and Its Impact on Social Capital,” March 5, 2007.

Interviewed and quoted by Jennifer O’Meara for Toronto Star story “UR Dumped – NRN: The Tongue-Tied or Fearful Prefer Instant Messaging”. March 13, 2007. http://www.thestar.com/article/190997.

“Networked individualism” and “glocalization” concepts featured on Jeffrey Edwards’ YouTube video. “Networked Individualism and the World of Warcraft.” February 27, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MWRy1vYy6c

2006

“Interview with Barry Wellman, SD Clark Professor of Sociology, on Social Network Analysis and Community.” By Bryan Kirschner, Microsoft Open Source. Podcast December 15, 2006. 8.08 minutes. http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/12/15/barry.aspx

Contribution to Pew Internet Delphi Report, “The Future of the Internet II” (September 24, 2006) quoted by BBC News, “Internet’s Future in 2020 Debated.” September 24, 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5370688.stm

Barry Wellman, “Xerox Can’t Take a Bow for Computers.” Letter to the editor. Calgary: Business Edge, September 29, 2006, p. 10.

Interviewed about how neighbourhoods have changed by Laura Thompson, Hamilton[Ontario] Spectator, August18, 2006.

Interviewed by Steve Esack, Allentown Call, about relationship of voluntary organizations and interpersonal ties to the Internet. August 17, 2006.

Interviewed and quoted re Statistics Canada time-use study of Internet users / non-users by Scott Roberts, "Heavy Internet Users Fall Down on Social, Household Tasks." Toronto Globe and Mail.com, August 2, 2006. www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060802.w3internet0802/BNStory/Front/home; Leah Walker, 680 News, August 4, 2006. Michelle McQuigge, Canadian Press (Toronto Star, London Free Press, Sun newspapers, etc.), "Heavy Net Users are Loners, Study Suggests." August 2, 2006. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1154516646381 http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=91eba266-158a-4b47-bfee-260fb873b6db&k=74802 ; Catherine Le Lohé, Radio France International, August 21, 2006. www.rfi.fr

Interviewed about how Internet is affecting personal networks by Andrew Murr, Newsweek, July 10, 2006.

Interviewed about research on number of very close ties (counterpoint to American Sociological Review article by Lynn Smith-Lovin, J. Miller McPherson and Matthew Brashaers) by Janet Kornblum, "Study: 25% of Americans Have No One to Confide In," USA Today, June 23, 2006, p. 1; Shankar Vedantam, "Social isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says," Washington Post, June 23, 2006, p. A3; Sebastian Mallaby, "Why So Lonesome?" Washington Post, June 26, 2006, p. A21. Stories reprinted, sometimes with modifications, by Indianapolis Star, Tucson Citizen, etc. Interviewed for follow-up story about media distortion by Gina Piccalo, "The Significance of Others," Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2006. Interviewed by Terry Milewski, "Is Loneliness Increasing?" for The Current, CBC National Radio, August 9, 2006.

Interviewed by Peter Svensson, Associated Press, May 9, 2006 for a story on how the Internet is helping analogue (film) photographers to find supplies and to innovate after Kodak’s departure from the film development business.

Interviewed by Caron Golden, Homefront magazine, for a June 2006 story on new developments in communication technology, April 10, 2006.

Interviewed by Allison Fass, Forbes.com, April 6, 2006, for "Their Space.com": story on social networking software. May 8, 2006. www.keepmedia.com/pubs/Forbes/2006/05/08/1482359?ba=m&bi=4&bp=24

Feature interview by Cara Donnelly, "Dr. Barry Wellman Comments on the Internet's Social Impact." Hot Topics, April 2006. www.carleton.ca/hotlab/hottopics/Articles/April2006-Dr.BarryWellman.html

Interviewed by Dee Taurah, March 2006, "Digital Lifestyle: Is This New Technology Killing the Art of Conversation?" BBC Interactive, forthcoming: http://www.bbc.co.uk/digital/tv/missing.shtml

Feature story, "Community Connections" by Jenny Hall, based on interviews with NetLab members. University of Toronto Bulletin, March 27, 2006, p. 6.

On-air interview by Derek Stoffel, CBC National Radio News, "Toronto Hydro to Offer Blanket Wi-Fi Coverage." March 7, 2006. Reprinted at http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/tor-torontohydro20060307.html

The Strength of Internet Ties report with the Pew Internet and American Life Project (authors: Jeffrey Boase, John Horrigan, Barry Wellman, and Lee Rainie) resulted in stories/interviews. This resulted in a number of interviews.

Annick Jesdanun, "Alone on the Internet? Hardly" Associated Press. received very wide dissemination, January 26, 2006, from Chicago Tribune and CNN.com to Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13746169.htm

Stephen Collinson, "Web Won’t Tear Us Apart: New Survey." AFP [Agence France Presse English service] was reprinted in newspapers outside of North America. January 26, 2006. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=105240.

Jill Mahoney, "Web Skeptics Take Note: The Sky Hasn’t Fallen." Toronto Globe and Mail, January 26, 2006, p. A8. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060126.gtxinternet26/BNStory/Technology/?query=wellman
Crayton Harrison, "Nerd-on-Net Predictions Flop as Personal Ties Stay Strong." Dallas Morning News [and other Knight-Ridder newspapers], January 26, 2006. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060126/news_1n26internet.html

Michael Hill, "A Better Connection." Feature story, Baltimore Sun, March 5, 2006.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.internet05mar05,0,6954050.story?page=1&coll=bal-ideas-headlines

Pew press release posted (and sometimes revised) by BBC, CBC, etc. http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/121/press_release.asp
Radio interviews with CJOB, Winnipeg (January 26, 2006) and CFOS, Owen Sound (January 31, 2006).

Voice of America broadcast by Ted Landphair, Feb 2, 2006.
print: http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2006-02-02-voa28.cfm. broadcast: http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/english/2006_02/Audio/mp3/Landphair_OIA_Network_02Feb06.mp3
Blogs (at least 57), such as Smart Mobs, "The Strength of Internet Ties – New Tools for Creating Social Capital." (Howard Rheingold, Jan. 25, 2006) ; http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/01/25/the_strength_of.html;

Joho the Blog, "The Internet Makes Friends" (David Weinberger, Jan 25, 2006), http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/the_internet_makes_friends.html
LeMonde.fr "Vers un ‘Individualism en Réseaux’."(Francis Pisani).
http://pisani.blog.lemonde.fr/pisani/2006/02/vers_un_individ.html
Ether: Sharing Knowledge, "Networked Individualism, eTrade, and Prediction Markets" (Jenny Ambrozek, Feb 4, 2006).http://ether.typepad.com/klog2/2006/02/networked_indiv.html

Some newspapers and online sites rewrote story for their own purposes, adding local information, e.g. The Minnesota Daily, Jan 31,2006, BBC.com.

On-air Interview by host Mary Ito, "The Interview in Our Lives," on More 2 Life, TV Ontario, Feb 19, 2006.

2005

Interviewed and quoted Dec 28 2005 by Nick Jesdanun for Associated Press feature story on gender differences and narrowing of digital divide in the U.S.: "Study Shows Differences in Internet Use." In Forbes.com, www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2005/12/28/ap2417960.html, + 18,500 other venues.

Research reported by Marcus Foth, "Networked communities: an answer to urban alienation?" Online Opinion, Dec 12, 2005. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3925

Interviewed Nov 23 2005 by Nick Jesdanun for Associated Press feature story, "Is Information at Your Fingertips Overloading People?"

"Networked Individualism" discussed in Richard Waters, "Plugged Into It All." FT [Financial Times] Magazine, Nov. 12, 2005: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b41a2a4e-5320-11da-8d05-0000779e2340.html

Interviewed Nov 3 2005 by Amy Spencer for Fitness magazine story on unplugging from post-1985 technologies. Scheduled to appear, Feb 2006.

Short essay on cross-posting published on "TheVirtualHandshake.com/blog/10/30/apologies-for-cross-posting"

NetLab – with Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman – part of Globalization video shown as part of the installation of David Naylor as new President of University of Toronto, Nov 7 2005.

Featured interview in Kenneth Kidd, "It’s All in Your Head." Toronto Star, October 9, 2005. Ideas section: pp. I1, I8. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1128767196799&call_pageid=1105528093962

Interviewed by Joe Friesen for "Have Webcam, Will Copulate." Toronto Globe and Mail, July 16, 2005, p. F2.

Interviewed by George Siemens (Red River College, Winnipeg), July 4 2005, for his forthcoming book, Connectivism.

Interviewed by Daniel Trottier on camera for the Canadian Social Traditions SSHRCC-funded research project about the history and development of Canadian sociology. June 3, 2005.

Featured (with Wenhong Chen) in Linda Du Haiying, "Student and Professor Doing Transnational Immigrant Entrepreneurship Research." Ming Pao Daily, Canadian edition, Feb 28, 2005, p. A2.

Featured in Howard Rheingold, "Les Foules Intelligentes," Le Monde, February 18, 2005. [chapter from Smart Mobs].

Featured in Warren Clements "Don’t Let Sleeping Bugbears Lay," Toronto Globe & Mail, February 19, 2005, p. R10. "Bemoans the attempt by insecure scholars to sound more ‘scientific’ by using the word ‘methodology’ instead of ‘methods’ as a main heading in a scholarly paper" and by the confusion of "principle" for "principal".

Interviewed by Jennifer Saranow, Wall Street Journal, for story about clubs on the internet. January 14, 2004.

Interviewed and quoted by Tom Zeller, Jr., "The Internet’s Future? It Depends on Whom You Ask." New York Times, January 10, 2005, p. C4.

2004

Subject of feature story by Howard Rheingold, "NetLab Probes the Glocal Village." TheFeature.com, December 16, 2004. http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101262&ref=5022685

Interviewed and quoted by Joe Mandak, "Experts: Web Searches for Sex Declining." Associated Press, October 27, 2004. Many newspapers and websites, including http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=202105&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Interviewed by Gloria Galloway about community attachment and mobility. "We’re Proud of Our Country but Have Doubts about the People." Toronto Globe and Mail, July 7, 2004, p. A3.

Interviewed by Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine for feature story about how wireless and portability communication are changing social networks at work and in the community (July 13, 2004).

Interviewed by Diana Kuprel for feature story on NetLab, “The Glocal Village: Internet and Community," premiere issue of IdeA&S: Arts & Sciences Review, University of Toronto, March 2004.

2003

Quoted in Anick Jesdanun (Associated Press), "That’s Too Much Information." December 22, 2003. Appeared in Chicago Daily Herald and other newspapers. www.dailyherald.com/search/main_story.asp?intid=3797776

Rita Chang, "Study: Americans Embrace Technology: We Still Have a Love Affair with our PCs – and the Information They Provide." Interview with John Horrigan, Barry Wellman and Steve Jones about November Pew report. PC World.com, December 2, 2003. www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,113691,00.asp

Barry Wellman [principal guest], Maribel Dolinov and Roger Crockett, moderated by Tom Ashbrook. "Cell Phone Nation." On Point. National Public Radio (U.S.), November 25, 2003. http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2003/11/20031125_b_main.asp

"Charting Digital Divide" report [with Wenhong Chen] for AMD’s Global Consumer Advisory Board is widely discussed in online media, including ZD.net, Cnet News.com, Extreme Tech, Oct 29 2003.

Quoted in "Studio 64: Academic Visionaries." Advanced Micro Devices Press Release for 64-bit computing. August 26, 2003.

"The Internet is Being Used More for Local, Not Long Distance, Contact," by Jennifer Kavur. Higher Learning [magazine]. April 2003, p. 30 [www.teachmag.com/higher-learning.html]

"Everybody’s Getting Wired," by Rosemary McNaughton. Feature story on NetLab’s research and The Internet in Everyday Life in The Varsity (University of Toronto student newspaper), Feb 4, 2003, p. 11.

"How Important is the Internet?" by Ted Landphair. Voice of America worldwide broadcast, January 25, 2003 about Internet in Everyday Life research. www.voanews.com

Internet in Everyday Life book discussed in ICA Newsletter, Feb 2003, p. 12.

"Internet and Daily Life Focus of New Book Edited by Wellman ’63". The Lafayette Magazine, January 2003, p. 14.

Internet in Everyday Life research findings reported in "Internet Uses in U.S. Homes Routine," Laura MacInnis, Reuters News Service. December 29, 2002. Published in the New York Times, December 30, 2002, p. C5 (National Edition), Yahoo News, CNN.com, and other news media. Radio interview with Mike Larson, "Morning Magazine" News Radio 1040, Tampa, January 7, 2003.

2002

Research profiled in KMDIary, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, December 2002.

University of Toronto Research Highlight: "’Global Village’ Not an Internet Reality: Sociologist," by Sue Toye., December 11 2002

Guest commentator, BBC Radio Scotland, "The Religious Hour": community and citizenship in the age of the Internet, November 17, 2002.

Interviewed by Wendy Carlisle about Netville study of a wired suburb. For "The Buzz," Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Commission, May 2002.

Work reported in "AMD Forms Global Consumer Advisory Board." CNet News.com (and other news media). March 20, 2002. http://news.com.com/2110-1040-864764.html Plus, Reports of first GCAB meeting: "AMD Global Consumer Advisory Board Identifies Critical Issues to Improve End Users' Technology Experience." TechNN.com (and other news media), May 13 2002. http://www.technn.com/archives/monday.html

Research featured in Bruce Bower, "The Social Net," Science News, May 4 2002: 282-84. http://www.sciencenews.org/20020504/bob9.asp

Feature story, "Internet en la Vida Cotidiana," by Joan Carles Ambrojo, Ciberpaís 22, May 2002: 19.

Consultant, Fast Data, National Film Board of Canada, April 2002.

Research featured in Jason Surovy, "Social Network Strengthened Through internet in Suburbia." The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, April 22, 2002. www.thetaran.org/96/20/scienceandtehcnology/1264.asp

Appear in several places in Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.

Mentioned in feature story, "Undefeated College Bowl Team Marks Anniversary." Lafayette [College] Alumni News, January 2002: 15.

Co-edited The Internet in Everyday Life book discussed in "How Lonely is the Life that is Lived Online?" By John Markoff. New York Times, January 21 2002: C3.

2001

Feature story, "Preparem-nost per a l'era del coneixement." By Eduard Batlle, El Punt [Girona, Catalonia, Spain], Dec. 4, 2001: 60.

Feature Story, "El sociólogo Barry Wellman habla en la UOC del impacto de Internet en la vida cotidiana", UOC Nota de Prensa, http://www.uoc.es/web/esp/noticies/barrywellman.html#links. Audio version: http://wwr.fm/radiouoc/esp/audio/notibarryesp.ram

Feature Story, "Un McLuhan Con Datos." La Vanguardia (Spain), November 18, 2001: 10-11.

Interviewed by Associated Press for "Preservationists Gather Attack Relics." November 4, 2001.

Work reported by Thomas Stewart for "America’s Secret Weapon: .. It Takes a Network to Beat a Network." Business 2.0, November 2001: 58-68.

Background resource for attack on New York for New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, September 2001: re networked society, network structure, Internet.

Article in Science featured in ACM TechNews, September 21, 2001, [http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0921f.html#item16]

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/]

Netville research reported by Sylvia Dennis, "Growing Net Usage Boosts Paper Greeting Card Market." Newsbytes, May 3 2001. [http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165281.htm]. See also PR Newswire, May 2 2001.

Interviewed by Nick Jesdanun, Associated Press Internet Writer re teaching about the Internet and Society to undergraduates and graduates. Story published April 23 2001 in Los Angeles Daily News (and other newspapers) as "Universities Tackle Internet Issues." [http://www.dailynewslosangeles.com/business/articles/0401/23/biz04.asp]

Interviewed by Liz Prior, Bright magazine: "Too Much Technology? Prepare for the Evernet Age, When You'll Always be Connected." March 2001. [http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/journalism/magazine/bright/toc.html]

Research on non-local community reported by Ross Longbottom, "Nice House, But Is It Home?" Hamilton Spectator, January 16, 2001. [http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/reports/354207.html]

Interviewed by Catherine Meury for "Bravo," Radio Canada Toronto (CBC French Radio], January 2001.

2000

Interviewed by Oakland Ross, "Why We Do Things The Way We Do: Unwritten Rules for Urban Survival Toronto-Style." Toronto Star, December 29 2000.

Work discussed by Don Cohen, "Wharton Virtual Communities Workshop," Knowledge Directions 2 (2), IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, Fall 2000: 32-45.

Research reported in Humanist Discussion Group email list 14 (391), Oct 20 2000. (Based at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College London; http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/])

Interviewed by Charles Piller for "The Place That Tech Forgot." Los Angeles Times, Oct 19, 2000. [http://www.latimes.com/business/updates/lat_place001019.htm] [Story summarized in "Vége a szövegelésnek?" Computertechnicka (Budapest), October 2000, http://www.comptech.hu/VI34/html/40ld.html]

Netville research reported in Der Tages Anzeiger (Zurich), October 5, 2000: "Die Cyberwelt Fordert die Städte" by Martin Läubli.

Panel discussion reported on Associated Press newswire (including USA Today), "Researchers Debate Net's Social Impact," September 18, 2000. Among other places, reported in German on internet.com [German],

Featured in "Go-Go Gadgets," The Varsity [Univ. of Toronto student newspaper}, September 19, 2000.

Feature story about our research in Toronto Star, September 14, 2000: "In Netville, Good Nexus Makes Good Neighbours," by Elaine Carey, p. B2; [http://neighborplace.com/research_1.html]

Feature story in Edmonton Journal, September 11, 2000, "Logged on to the Guy Next Door: In a Toronto Test, Computers Made the Neighbourhood More Neighbourly, by Scott McKeen. Revised, shortened version, "Wired Community Proves to be More Neighbourly," in National Post, Sept 13, 2000, p. B9.

Netville research reported in "Vernetzte Welt - Mehr soziale Jontakte durch Internet und E-Mail." Bild der Wissenschaft Online, September 4, 2000. [http://www.wissenschaft.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=28559]

Research reported in New York Times, August 17, 2000 about our National Geographic ("Survey 2000") study of how people use both the internet and traditional means of communication to interact with friends and relatives, near and far.

Feature story, Marc Haddad, "Internet Causes Greater Human Interaction, U of T Study Shows." The Underground [Scarborough College student newspaper, August 20, 2000.

Interviewed by Deborah Churchill for "Wild Tales of Lunatics with Hooks," Hamilton [Ont, Canada] Spectator, July 27, 2000. http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/the_internet2/264603.html

1984-1999

Research described in "Sociologists@ Work", Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, December, 1999.

Featured role in hour-long documentary, What If: A Film about Judith Merril. Helene Klodawsky, director and writer. Montreal, Imageries, producer. First shown on the Space Channel, February, 1999.

Interviewed for Robert Crib, "Love Affair Brews on Beer Web Site." Toronto Star, Dec. 28, 1998, p. B1.

Interviewed for Karen Burshtein, "Caught in the Web of Romance," Toronto Globe and Mail, Dec 17, 1998, p. E5.

Interviewed on "The Future of the Telephone," Beyond Computers (US) National Public Radio show, Nov 13, 1998.

Research group featured in Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Promotional Magazine, Fall, 1998, p. 11.

Interviewed for "Peek-a-boo" by Peter Krivel. "Fast Forward" section, Toronto Star, July 23, 1998.

University of Toronto "Research Highlight": "Internet Encourages New Social Interaction, Research Shows." March 23, 1998. Press release to the media. Approximately 6 interviews resulted. Follow-up story in University of Toronto Magazine, Autumn, 1998: 9.

Interview for "Mom and Data @ home.com," Washington Post National Weekly Edition, Nov. 3, 1997: 29.

"Me and Monica: Social Network Theory Illuminates the Big Story, and a Lot More." Dan Seligman, Forbes, March 23, 1998: 76-77.

Photo placed alongside entertainment stars’ photos at Toronto’s landmark "The Bagel" restaurant. Oct, 1997.

Principal source for "A World Divided?" Janice Turner, Toronto Star, Sept. 23, 1995: L2, L18.

"Social Networking: From TV Game Shows to the Information Highway, Barry Wellman Connects in a Big Way," University of Toronto Bulletin, June 13, 1994: 6.

"Work and Play on the Highway," University of Toronto Magazine, Autumn, 1994: 5.

Featured in "On the Road -- Again -- to the College Bowl." Lafayette Magazine, Winter, 1994: 8-9.

"The Folks Next Door Aren't Strangers After All," Interview with Carin Rubenstein, New York Times, Jan. 7, 1993.

Feature Writer, "Ties and Bonds" section, Connections, 1988 - . [6+-pages, 3 times per year].

University of Toronto "Research Highlight" : "Men's Friendships Differ from Women's, Study Finds." August, 1992. Press release to the media resulted in periodical features --

"Vivian Smith wonders why marriage can make it hard to keep up friendships," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 27, 1992.

"Relationships: Men Do, Women Express", Canadian Press Syndicate, August 28, 1992. Published in the Toronto Sun, etc.

"Gender & Friendship", M. Jeannie Marshall, The Newspaper [University of Toronto student newspaper], September 10, 1992.

"Men's Friendships Reflect Women's," Chatelaine, February, 1993.

Five live, on-air, radio Interviews [10 to 30 minutes in length]

Four Taped Interviews for Distribution to Radio Stations [15 minutes in length].

On-Camera Contributor, TV Ontario Sociology series: "Urban" and "Family" shows, 1984.

Captain & highest scorer, Lafayette College team, Undefeated (5 shows) on GE College Bowl, CBS-TV, 1962.