Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size From 2002 to 2007

By Hua Wang, Barry Wellman. 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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How new media affords network diversity: Direct and mediated access to social capital through participation in local social settings (2011, background): “In addition, internet users have contact with a greater number of friends and relatives than nonusers, in particular those who use social as opposed to passive internet technologies (Wang and Wellman, 2010; Zhao, 2006).”
Loneliness and Social Internet Use: Pathways to Reconnection in a Digital World? (2018, result): “A possible reason for this difference in the results is that there are large overlaps in people’s offline and online friendship groups (H. Wang & Wellman, 2010), so having large numbers of friends on Facebook is associated with having large social networks offline.”
Female Gamers’ Experience of Online Harassment and Social Support in Online Gaming: A Qualitative Study (2018, unknown): “Active internet users have been found to be more likely to use other communication tools, to have frequent face-to-face conversations (Baym et al. 2004), and to have contact with a greater number of people (Wang and Wellman 2010).”
Dividing the Grey Divide: Deconstructing Myths About Older Adults’ Online Activities, Skills, and Attitudes (2018, background): “Although this belief is inaccurate (Wang & Wellman, 2010), it reflects a longstanding and widely reported moral panic (Hampton & Wellman, 2018).”
Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community (2011, background): “Wellman also sees in person those mutuals who live in Toronto (who also have in-person contact with each other), just as most North Americans routinely integrate their online and offline contact (Boase, Horrigan, Wellman, & Rainie, 2006; Wang & Wellman, 2010; Wellman, Hogan, et al., 2006).”