Just out--in print and online: Keith Neil Hampton & moi, "Lost and saved...Again: The Moral Panic About the Loss of Community Takes Hold of Social Media." Featured Essay for _Contemporay Sociology_, 47, 6 (11/18), 643-651. http://cs.sagepub.com [Contemp Soc is Am Soc Assoc's book review journal: This is a review essay.] https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306118805415 lede: Why does every generation believe that relationships were stronger and community better in the recent past? Lamenting about the loss of community, based on a selective perception of the present and an idealization of traditional community dims awareness of powerful inequalities and cleavages that have always pervaded human society and favors deterministic models over a nuanced understanding of how network affordances contribute to different outcomes. Barry Wellman Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times--Walter Cronkite _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman _______________________________________________________________________