CMNS 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barry Wellman, Mobile Game, Social Capital
8 Sep 2020
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The widespread diffusion of icts, digital networks, and mobile technologies has amplified the capacity of humans to communicate and form social networks. These changes have extended the density and reach of peer-to-peer networks. Barry wellman uses the concept of networked individualism to describe this phenomenon. For wellman, networked individuals use technologies to assert their identities and maintain connections. He argues that these activities have both positive and negative outcomes. They offer new ways to mediate social connections, and over time can engender a high degree of trust and reciprocity among members of a network expressed as social capital. Through social capital, our interpersonal obligations, the ways we exchange information, our feelings of affection and solidarity, and the collective actions we undertake all operate as a form of exchange. For these exchanges to work, they must be accompanied with trust and reciprocity, as sustained in personal relationships. Unit 8 networked individuals gaming together1 aug 11, 2020 11 07 pm.
