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Networked The New Social Operating System

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ISBN-10: 0262017199

ISBN-13: 9780262017190

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman

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Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of "networked individualism" liberates us from the…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Triple Revolution
The New Social Operating System of Networked Individualism
The Social Network Revolution
The Internet Revolution
The Mobile Revolution
Interlude: A Day in a Connected Life
How Networked Individualism Works
Networked Relationships
Networked Families
Networked Work
Networked Creators
Networked Information
Interlude: The Conversation Never Ends
How to Operate in a Networked World, Now and in the Future
Thriving as a Networked Individual
The Future of Networked Individualism
Notes
Index