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 and Social Structure, and Networks in communties and organizations. He has been a sociologist at the University of Toronto since 1967, gaining his PhD in Social Relations from Harvard University in 1969.
Professor Wellman is known for his dialogic style of teaching and is the editor of three books and more than 200 articles. His edited 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/
