[Air-L] Networked as your text?

[Burcu Bakioglu]

Hi Scott,
Just looked at your links... Could you contextualize these a bit? How long
do these courses run? Surely not a single semester with all the readings
assigned, right?

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Scott MacLeod <helianth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barry and Lee,
>
> Great and thanks.
>
> I added this
>
> Rainie, Lee and Barry Wellman. 2012. Networked: The New Social
> Operating System. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
>
> as reference to the following World University and School (which is
> like Wikipedia with MIT OCW with free degrees planned for a first,
> matriculating, online, Bachelor's degree class in 2014, accrediting on
> MIT OCW in CA), wiki subjects:
>
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Society and
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Studies and
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Society,_Technology_and_Science
> ...
>
> I'll look to use it in the related course I teach, as well.
>
> Thank you for writing this,
> Scott
>
> http://scottmacleod.com
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Barry Wellman
> <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > It's textbook choosing season, and I hope you'll think about our
> Networked
> > book. I taught nicely from the pdfs last year. And it's less than $20.
> > Recommended by Manuel Castells, Vint Cerf, Clay Shirky, and others. (Full
> > list on Amazon).
> >
> > Here's the jacket blurb:
> >
> > Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings
> and
> > responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages,
> > tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and
> > discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be
> > part of the give-and-take of networking.
> >
> > Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in
> > Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit
> > social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for
> learning,
> > problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new
> social
> > operating system of "networked individualism" liberates us from the
> > restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop
> > networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance
> > multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the "triple
> > revolution" that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social
> > networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the
> > always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence,
> > they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded
> personal
> > relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into
> > less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals
> to
> > create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information.
> > Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of
> > living in the evolving world of networked individuals.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Barry Wellman
> >  _______________________________________________________________________
> >
> >  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC               NetLab Director
> >  Department of Sociology                  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388
> >  University of Toronto   Toronto Canada M5S 2J4   twitter:barrywellman
> >  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman             fax:+1-416-978-3963
> >  Updating history:      http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php
> >
> >  Just published: NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System.
> >  Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman. MIT Press.
> >  http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12791
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325258020&sr=1-1
> >
> http://www.amazon.ca/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336697601&sr=1-4
> >  _______________________________________________________________________
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Thanks,

Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media
Lawrence University

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