%0 Book %B Information Age Series %D 0 %T The Internet in Everyday Life %A Barry Wellman %A Caroline Haythornthwaite %K internet %K Internet Studies %K methodologies %K social effects %X The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people'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. %B Information Age Series %I Wiley-Blackwell %G eng %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470774298 %0 Book Section %B Culture of the Internet %D 1997 %T An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network %A Barry Wellman %K computer-mediated communication %K social network %X 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). %B Culture of the Internet %I Psychology Press %G eng %U http://pdf.aminer.org/000/247/445/learning_in_the_network_form_implications_for_electronic_group_support.pdf %1 Sara Kiesler %& 9