@book {1273, title = {The Internet in Everyday Life}, series = {Information Age Series}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, organization = {Wiley-Blackwell}, abstract = {The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people{\textquoteright}s everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.}, keywords = {internet, Internet Studies, methodologies, social effects}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470774298}, author = {Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite} } @inbook {1178, title = {An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network}, booktitle = {Culture of the Internet}, year = {1997}, publisher = {Psychology Press}, organization = {Psychology Press}, chapter = {9}, abstract = {When a computer network connects people, it is a social network. Just as a computer network is a set of machines connected by a set of cables, a social network is a set of people (or organizations or other social entities) connected by a set of socially meaningful relationships. I show how social network analysis might be useful for understanding how people relate to each other through computer-mediated communication (see also Wellman \& Gulia, in press; Wellman et al., 1996).}, keywords = {computer-mediated communication, social network}, url = {http://pdf.aminer.org/000/247/445/learning_in_the_network_form_implications_for_electronic_group_support.pdf}, author = {Barry Wellman} }