Barry Wellman

Barry Wellman directs NetLab as a professor of Sociologyat the University of Toronto. His areas of research are urban sociology, Internetand social structure, and networksin communties and organizations. He has been a sociologist at the University of Torontosince 1967, gaining his PhD in Social Relations from Harvard Universityin 1969.

Professor Wellman is known for his dialogic style of teaching and is the editor of three books and the author of more than 200 articles. His books are: Social Structures: A Network Approach (with the late S.D. Berkowitz); Networks in the Global Village; The Internet in Everyday Life (with Caroline Haythornthwaite).

He has an extensive website with many of his publications available for reading: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/

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