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Barry Wellman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research examines virtual community, the virtual workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. Based at the University of Toronto, he directs NetLab, teaches at the Department of Sociology, does research at the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Knowledge Media Design Institute, and the Bell University Laboratories' Collaborative Effectiveness Lab, and is a cross-appointed member of the Faculty of Information Studies. Dr. Wellman is also the chair of the Community and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association. He has been a Fellow of IBM's Institute of Knowledge Management, a consultant with Mitel Networks and Microsoft Research, a member of Advanced Micro Devices' Global Consumer Advisory Board, and a committee member of the Social Science Research Council's (and Ford Foundation's) Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security. He is the co-author of more than two hundred articles, co-authored with more than eighty scholars, and is the co-editor of three books. Dr. Wellman holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard.