COMM 481: Social Networks

» Evolving Network Communities from Social Network Blog - g16
Our first reading was Barry Wellman’s thorough introduction to the evolving history of network communities. Through this piece, Wellman presents and then shatters the Tonnien complaint that community has been destroyed by a modern “mass society,” expl... [Read More]

» Social Networks from Social Network Blog - y8
Article 1: “The Network Community: An Introduction” This article looks at social network theory through an historical framework, and debunks the theory that community has dissolved. Instead, the author (Wellman) argues that as significant events such a... [Read More]

» Community? from Social Network Blog - g41
Week 2 Reading While Wellman manages to cover all sides of the argument for the existence of community in modern day, his main argument is that community and its meaning has changed with society. Wellman begins by address the issue... [Read More]

» Connecting the Dots, Lines and Clusters from Social Network Blog - g10
This weeks readings presented a broad overview of the relatively young field of social network analysis. In the first reading, “The Network Community: an Introduction,” the author, Barry Wellman, challenges the longstanding interpretation of the nature... [Read More]

» Attitudes Towards Social Networks, Today and Yesterday from Social Network Blog - r10
Wellman’s article examines how communities today compare to the communities of the past. While many people see today’s communities as more disintegrated, unstable, and colder than communities of the “bygone, supposedly golden days” (p.1) of the past, W... [Read More]

» Communities and Networks from Social Network Blog - g18
In Barry Wellman’s’ article “The Network Community: An Introduction – ‘Things Ain’t Wot They Used to Be’ – and They Never Were!”, he argues that new technology has not caused community to break down, but rather has created new opportunities... [Read More]

» A quick skim?? from Social Network Blog - r5
And so begins my blogging "career." On the first page of Network Concepts, Measures, and the Multi-theoretical, Multi Analytical Framework the author says " A quick skim should provide ample insight into our selection and use of concepts and... [Read More]

» Three different styles = many new ideas and questions from Social Network Blog - r32
The three readings this week all took very different measures in trying to introduce the numerous concepts involved in studying the connections we have with each other as social beings. While Wellman focused on arguing a specific point and used... [Read More]

» Comic Strips, Communities, and Concepts: a blog from Social Network Blog - r14
Though we may not know our neighbors, we still keep in daily contact with family and friends in 48 different countries surrounding the globe. Wellman’s article, The Network Community: An Introduction shows us why a community should not be based... [Read More]

» Defining Community: The Ever-Changing Issue from Social Network Blog - g23
Wellman's article covers a plethora of issues surrounding the word "community" including what is a community, what is the role of a community, and what kind of ties are involved in a community given a particular country, economic situation,... [Read More]

» The Community Questions from Social Network Blog - y10
1) Wellmann Wellmann refutes the claim that community groups are disappearing with the advent of “industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization, capitalism, socialism and technological change,” leaving behind individuals who feel isolated and alie... [Read More]

» Introduction to Social Networks from Social Network Blog - r45
1. The Wellman article explores the different concerns surrounding the “Community Question” that surfaced throughout time as society and humanity developed, and became increasingly industrialized. Wellman presents points of views suggesting that despit... [Read More]

» Animated Education from Social Network Blog - g33
After reading Peter Monge’s and Noshir Contractor’s Theories of Communication Networks, I was left with a basic understanding of the terminology but it was simply a basic understanding. It seemed hard to attach all those terms to the concept of... [Read More]

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