[Air-L] Networked as your text?

[Scott MacLeod]

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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