[Air-L] Networked as your text?

[Barry Wellman]

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
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   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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