The New Social Operating System: The Impact of Networked Technologies On Community, Family, and Work Relations

The Department of Communication and Culture, The Department of Political Science, and The Department of Sociology Present: THE NEW SOCIAL OPERATING SYSTEM: THE IMPACT OF NETWORKED TECHNOLOGIES ON COMMUNITY, FAMILY, AND WORK RELATIONS A Talk with Prof. Barry Wellman Abstract: In his 2012 book Networked: The New Social Operating System (co-authored with Lee Rainie), Barry Wellman explores the latest paradigm shifts occurring in society: from group-centered relations to networked individualism and social networks. The far-flung and personalized internet along with the always available and accessible mobile devices have resulted in new social operating systems. The presentation will discuss how these structural changes play out for community, family and work relations. Bio: Sociologist Barry Wellman directs NetLab at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. His most recent award-winning book (with Lee Rainie) is Networked. In 1976, he founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and former president of the Social Research Association. He has won career awards from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, as well as two sections of the American Sociological Association: Community; Communications and Information Technology. More info: http://comcul.ucalgary.ca/socialop

Location:

Biology Building RM. 587

Speaker:

Barry Wellman

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/new-social-operating-system-impact-networked-technologies-community-family-and-work