Publications

"An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network"

Barry Wellman. **In Culture of the Internet , edited by Sara Kiesler. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. 179-205**.

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).

"An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network" Barry Wellman. In Culture of the Internet , edited by Sara Kiesler. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. 179-205.

ABSTRACT

"An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network"

Barry Wellman. **In Culture of the Internet , edited by Sara Kiesler. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. 179-205**.