Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism

Authors:
Barry Wellman
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Much thinking about digital cities is in terms of community groups. Yet, the world is composed of social networks and not of groups. This paper traces how communities have changed from densely-knit "Little Boxes" (densely-knit, linking people door-to-door) to "Glocalized" networks (sparselyknit but with clusters, linking households both locally and globally) to "Networked Individualism" (sparsely-knit, linking individuals with little regard to space). The transformation affects design considerations for computer systems that would support digital cities.