Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism

By Barry Wellman. Digital Cities, 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Smart City and information technology: A review (2019, background): “Overview #Cites Wellman (2001) Analyzes how social relations have changed over time and the effects of these changes on the future design of the digital cities 52 Ratasuk et al. (2015) Outlines the requirements for M2M fifth generation (5G) communication systems 36”
Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture (2006, background): “Thus the popularity and corresponding commercialization of collaborative technologies at home and in the workplace (such as the “taking over” of networked computers running multiple-user software, as problematized by Virilio, 1997 ), our constant engagement and disengagement in a wide variety of so”
Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size From 2002 to 2007 (2010, background): “…concept here is networked individualism: the transformation of interpersonal social structures from “door-to-door” or “place to place” to “person to person,” and (even more specialized) “role to role” relations (Wellman, 2001a, 2002; see also network individualization, van Dijk, 2006, 2008).”
Beyond the 'digital natives' debate: Towards a more nuanced understanding of students' technology experiences (2010, background): “In this vision of the modern world these new societal structures enable people to engage in “multiple, partial communities as they deal with shifting, amorphous networks of kin, neighbours, friends, workmates and organisational ties” (Wellman, 2002, p. 2).”
Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement (2012, background): “Yet the Internet is changing the ways in which we communicate, organize, and socialize (Bimber, Flanagin, & Stohl, 2005; Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Gil de Zuniga & Valenzuela, 2011; Hampton & Wellman, 2001; Klein, 1999; Rich, 1999; Shah et al., 2005).”
Implications of Mobility: The Uses of Personal Communication Media in Everyday Life (2006, background): “Previous studies in Western countries have revealed that extroverts flourish online (Chen, Boase, & Wellman, 2002).”
Adolescents' sense of community on myspace and facebook: a mixed-methods approach. (2010, background): “Individuals switch rapidly between their social networks’’ (Wellman, 2002, p. 15) rather than remain in a group or community.”