[Air-L] net surfers updated?

[Barry Wellman]

Dear Joseph Reagle,
Many thanks for your continued liking of Net Surfers. Milena and I are
proud of it, and it continues to be the most cited paper I have
(co-)authored.

You're right, The Qs remain relevant, but the e-world has changed since
1997 when we wrote it. My hunch is that the answers remain largely the
same, but the examples would change.

I don't plan on doing an update per se, and Milena is now busy working in
the Canadian Goverment. However, Vincent Chua, Julia Madej and I are
almost finished with a chapter for the Sage Handbook of Social Network
Analysis on Personal Communities, which contains some Internet stuff, and
a co-author and I are just starting a book tentatively called Netting
Together which will deal with many of these issues. (I don't reveal
co-author or publisher because it is too early: don't want to jinx
things).

Meanwhile, if someone else wants to redo Net Surfers, you have my
blessing.
 Barry Wellman
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