Notes:

Wellman asserts:” that the developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift from the ‘little boxes metaphor’ of people and institutions to diffuse, variegated social networks*Much social organization no longer fits the little boxes metaphor*In networked societies boundaries are more permeable, interactions are with diverse others, linkages switch between multiple networks, and hierarchies are both flatter and more complexly structured*In virtual and networked organizations, managment by network has people reporting to shifting sets of supervizors, peers, and even nominal subordinates*Each person has his/her own personal network*notion of network capital: how people contact, interact, and obtain resources from each other*Computer supported social networks*networked individualism*Demand for collaborative communication and information sharing”.

Wellman outlines the transition to networked Individualism and discusses 1) Groups 2) Glocalization & 3) Networked Indiviualism. URL: [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/littleboxes/littlebox.PDF]