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Connected Lives: The Project1

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Barring the odd beast and monk, just about everyone is connected these days – at most by 6 degrees of interpersonal connection and often by less (Milgram, 1967; Kochen, 1989; Watts, 2003). Yet only a tiny fraction of those who are connected ever interact in any meaningful way as friends, relatives, neighbours, workmates, and acquaintances. These ties comprise our individual personal communities, each a solar system of 10–2000 persons orbiting around us (Wellman, 1979).

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  • Social Support
  • Social Network
  • Mobile Phone
  • Household Member
  • Survey Respondent

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Wellman, B. et al. (2006). Connected Lives: The Project1 . In: Purcell, P. (eds) Networked Neighbourhoods. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-601-8_8

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