Networked by Rainie, Lee -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication Preface Acknowledgments I: The Triple Revolution 1 The New Social Operating System of Networked Individualism

2 The Social Network Revolution

Toward the Social Network Revolution People Think They Are in Groups but They Really Are in Networks People Think They Act Independently but They Really Are in Networks Thinking Networked The Social Network Perspective Develops The Founding Grandfather—Georg Simmel The Cold War Begets Social Network Thinking The Structure of Social Networks Analyzing Social Networks Clusters of Networked Individuals Personal Networks Networked Societies

3 The Internet Revolution

4 The Mobile Revolution

The First Mobile Phones Were Heavy Loads The World Goes Mobile Texting Joins Talking Beyond Talking and Texting: The Smartphone Computers Have Become Mobile and Wireless Living in the Cloud Continuous Access and Hyperconnectivity Controlling the Volume and Social Interactions Ad Hoc Communities Using Mobile Communication The New Choreography of Physical Gatherings Longer Encounters The Weakening—But Not the Death—of Distance Connected Presence, Absent Presence, and Present Absence The Blurring Boundaries of Public and Private Spaces The Triple Revolution Pushes on: Mobile + Internet + Social Networks

Interlude: A Day in a Connected Life

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

II: How Networked Individualism Works 5 Networked Relationships

From Door-to-Door to Place-to-Place Networks From Place-to-Place to Person-to-Person Networks Networked Relationships On- and Offline How Large Are Personal Networks? Who Is in Personal Networks? Sparsely Knit, Segmented, and Specialized Personal Communities Core Networks Do More than Discuss Important Metters Networks in the Age of Facebook The More, the Merrier

6 Networked Families

The Way It Is in the Networked Age Changing Households: Size and Composition Shifting Family Roles Family Time, Network Time Digital Technologies and Networked Households The New Connectivity: Keeping in Touch with Spouses Connecting with Children Teens Texting Netting Together Networked Families: In Connected Motion

7 Networked Work

Fostering the Turn to Networked Work in Networked Organizations The Diffusion and Use of ICTs How Networked Workers Operate The Rise of Networked Organizations Working in Multiple Teams Blurring the Home-Work Boundary Net and Jet: Entrepreneurs Linking North America and China The Distributed Designs of the Boeing 777 and 787 Airliners Networked Work On and Offline

8 Networked Creators

Creating in the Age of the Triple Revolution Collaborative Content Creation on Wikipedia Tag, You’re It! The Egyptian Revolt, On and Offline How All This User-Generated Content Is Changing the Media Landscape The Week of March 30 to April 5 Networked Stars are Found and Mashed-up Identity Creation and Reputation Management Why Become A Networked Creator? Everybody Wants To Get Into The Act

9 Networked Information

The News Then and Now The Changing Information and Media Ecology TMI: Too Much Information The “Veillance” of Personal Information Dealing with the “Zero Privacy” Lifestyles of the Rich in Networked Information

Interlude: The Conversation Never Ends

Thursday Friday Saturday Reflections

III: How to Operate in a Networked World, Now and in the Future 10 Thriving as a Networked Individual

Linda Evans Becomes a Networked Individual How People Can Thrive as Networked Individuals New Literacies for Networked Individuals

11 The Future of Networked Individualism

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