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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** There are of course by now many reports on this issue, some using prior Pew data, others using GSS and other datasets; and a good half-dozen edited books by now. Those interested in this enduring issue of relationships between Internet use and, well, relationships, might also want to look at Katz, J. E. & Rice, R. E. (2002). Social consequences of Internet use: Access, involvement and interaction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ====================================== Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication Dept. of Communication Incoming President of the International Communication Association Co-Director, Center for Film, Television and New Media University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 ph: 805-893-8696; fax: 805-893-7102 [log in to unmask] http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/rice_flash.htm http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanley Wasserman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:22 PM Subject: Fwd: Pew Report on Social Networks > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > My friend Connie Porter at Notre Dame (she writes with me for > Centrality --- http://www.centralityjournal.com ) > sent this to me. > > Our own Barry Wellman is one of the authors on this. > > The website of the full report is given below in this > forwarded email note. > > SW > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: [log in to unmask] >> Date: January 25, 2006 4:51:58 PM EST >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Fwd: Pew Report on Social Networks >> >> >> You might find this report interesting.... >> >> ----- Forwarded message from Amanda Lenhart >> <[log in to unmask]> ----- >> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:10:47 -0500 >> From: Amanda Lenhart <[log in to unmask]> >> Reply-To: Amanda Lenhart <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Pew Report on Social Networks >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> The Pew Internet & American Life Project today released a report >> describing how the internet improves Americans' capacity to maintain >> their social networks and how they gain a big payoff when they use the >> internet to activate those networks to solicit help. >> >> The report is based on two surveys and finds that the internet and email >> expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the >> offline world. The surveys show that people not only socialize online, >> but they also incorporate the internet into their quest for information >> and advice as they seek help and make decisions. >> >> Disputing concerns that heavy use of the internet might diminish >> people's social relations, the report finds that the internet fits >> seamlessly with Americans' in-person and phone encounters. With the help >> of the internet, people are able to maintain active contact with sizable >> social networks, even though many of the people in those networks do not >> live close to them. >> >> The report, "The Strength of Internet Ties," highlights how email >> supplements, rather than replaces, the communication people have with >> others in their network. >> >> The full report is available at: >> http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/172/report_display.asp >> >> Please feel free to forward this email alert to colleagues, friends, or >> family members who might be interested in it. If you have received this >> message from a subscriber, you can sign up to receive your own alerts >> at: >> http://www.pewinternet.org/signup.asp >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -------- >> To subscribe, send a blank message to [log in to unmask] >> To unsubscribe, send a blank message to pewinternet- [log in to unmask] >> To change your email address, send a message to >> [log in to unmask] >> with your old address in the Subject: line >> To contact the list owner, send your message to >> [log in to unmask] >> >> http://www.pewinternet.org/ >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe, click on the following web page. >> http://cgi.mail-list.com/u?ln=pewinternet&[log in to unmask] >> >> >> This message was launched into cyberspace to [log in to unmask] >> >> ----- End forwarded message ----- >> >> >> >> >> > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.