Barry Wellman

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Barry Wellman directs NetLab as a professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are urban sociology, Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations. Professor Wellman has been at the University of Toronto since 1967, gaining his PhD from Harvard University in 1969. He has won outstanding lifetime achievement awards from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, the International Network for Social Network Analysis, and two sections of the American Sociological Association: Community and Urban Sociology; and Communication and Information Technologies.

Professor Wellman is known for his dialogic style of teaching and mentoring. He 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/]

He has also compiled, for fun, "Updating Cybertimes", translating songs, movies, popular culture and historical figures from pre-Internet days to current times. http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php

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