[Air-l] "network of networks" - origin of
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Sun Mar 20 12:16:27 PST 2005
In a recent post, Neil Randall referred to the internet as a "network of
networks."
In case anyone is interested, Paul Craven and I invented that term in our
1973 article "The Network City." (in _Sociological Inquiry_ 43 (Winter):
57-88. [Reprinted in _The Community_, edited by Marcia Effrat. New York:
Free Press, 1974.]
Way back then, we were referring to social networks, but the concept was
the same as was later ported over to the internet (or independently
re-invented).
In short, we claim terminological priority!
Barry
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To network is to live; to live is to network
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