@inbook {1178,
	title = {An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network},
	booktitle = {Culture of the Internet},
	year = {1997},
	publisher = {Psychology Press},
	organization = {Psychology Press},
	chapter = {9},
	abstract = {When a computer network connects people, it is a social network. Just as a computer network is a set of machines connected by a set of cables, a social network is a set of people (or organizations or other social entities) connected by a set of socially meaningful relationships. I show how social network analysis might be useful for understanding how people relate to each other through computer-mediated communication (see also Wellman \& Gulia, in press; Wellman et al., 1996).},
	keywords = {computer-mediated communication, social network},
	url = {http://pdf.aminer.org/000/247/445/learning_in_the_network_form_implications_for_electronic_group_support.pdf},
	author = {Barry Wellman}
}
