[Air-L] Why does every generation think the past was better?

[Barry Wellman]

Just out--in print and online:

Keith Neil Hampton & moi, "Lost and saved...Again: The Moral Panic About 
the Loss of Community Takes Hold of Social Media." Featured Essay for 
_Contemporay Sociology_, 47, 6 (11/18), 643-651. http://cs.sagepub.com

[Contemp Soc is Am Soc Assoc's book review journal: This is a review 
essay.] https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306118805415

lede:

Why does every generation believe that relationships were stronger and 
community better in the recent past? Lamenting about the loss of community, 
based on a selective perception of the present and an idealization of 
traditional community dims awareness of powerful inequalities and cleavages 
that have always pervaded human society and favors deterministic models over a 
nuanced understanding of how network affordances contribute to different 
outcomes.

   Barry Wellman


   Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim
        The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman
              It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna

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          that alter and illuminate our times--Walter Cronkite
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