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Nice writeup below from the U of Toronto Sociology dept and Emerald Press.
Note the free open access for a year
   Barry Wellman

    A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head
    Step by step, link by link, putting it together
                  Streisand/Sondheim
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   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman           twitter: @barrywellman
   NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System  Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
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Congratulations to Guang Ying Mo and her coauthors who were recently 
awarded one of the Emerald Literati Networks Award for Excellence, 2016!

Mo and her co-authors, Zach Hayat and Barry Wellman, received an 
Outstanding Author Contribution Award in the Book Series, Studies in Media 
and Communications. Their award-winning book chapter is: "How Far Can 
Scholarly Networks Go? Examining the Relationships between Disciplines, 
Motivations, and Clusters."

Presented by The Emerald Publishing Group, this award honours the top 
contributions within the current year’s volume of a book series. According 
to the award's literature, the winning chapters demonstrate: "a 
contribution of something new to the body of knowledge, either in terms of 
approach or subject matter; excellent structure and presentation and 
well-written text; rigour in terms of argument or analysis; relevance – to 
practice and further research, in most cases; up-to-date – demonstrating 
that the latest/key works in the field have been cited; a work which is 
clearly within the editorial scope and remit of the book series." In 
choosing the outstanding contribution, the editors are, moreover, 
recognizing it as "of notable outstanding quality."

Congratulations again to Mo for her excellent work.

In recognition of the award, the publisher has made the full chapter open 
access for the period of one year. We have pasted the abstract below.

Guang Ying Mo , Zack Hayat , Barry Wellman. How Far can Scholarly Networks 
Go? Examining the Relationships between Distance, Disciplines, 
Motivations, and Clusters Communication and Information Technologies 
Annual. 2015, 107-133.

Abstract

This study aims to understand the extent to which scholarly networks are 
connected both in person and through information and communication 
technologies, and in particular, how distance, disciplines, and 
motivations for participating in these networks interplay with the 
clusters they form. The focal point for our analysis is the Graphics, 
Animation and New Media Network of Centres of Excellence (GRAND NCE), a 
Canadian scholarly network in which scholars collaborate across 
disciplinary, institutional, and geographical boundaries in one or 
multiple projects with the aid of information and communication 
technologies. To understand the complexity in such networks, we first 
identified scholars’ clusters within the work, want-to-meet, and help 
networks of GRAND and examined the correlation between these clusters as 
well as with disciplines and geographic locations. We then identified 
three types of motivation that drove scholars to join GRAND: practical 
issues, novelty-exploration, and networking. Our findings indicate that 
(1) scholars’ interests in the networking opportunities provided by GRAND 
may not easily translate into actual interactions. Although scholars 
express interests in boundary-spanning collaborations, these mostly occur 
within the same discipline and geographic area. (2) Some motivations are 
reflected in the structural characteristics of the clusters we identify, 
while others are irrelevant to the establishment of collaborative ties. We 
argue that institutional intervention may be used to enhance 
geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary collaboration.

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