The Internet in Everyday Life / Information Age Series (PDF)

Barry Wellman learned to keypunch in 1965 and started
chatting online in 1976. Now the head of the University of
Toronto's NetLab, he's a leading scholar of cybersociety,
community, and social network analysis. Prof. Wellman has pioneered
understanding of both communities and computer networks as social
networks. He founded the International Network for Social Network
Analysis, chaired the Community section of the American
Sociological Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of
the Association for Internet Research. He's written more than 200
articles and edited two other books. His website has received
20,000 hits in three years.

Caroline Haythornthwaite is a faculty member at the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Coordinator of the
Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies. Before
returning to full-time study, she spent over 10 years in software
development as a programmer, systems analyst, and software
development manager. Her research focuses on how people work and
learn together at a distance via computer technology and the
Internet, and examines what combinations of computer media, and
work and social communications build ties and social networks
online. Current projects include examination of learning networks
and community ties among distance learners, and processes of
knowledge co-construction among members of distributed research
teams.

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