2008, he was the first person given the "Communication Research as an Open Field" Award, 2008, from the International Communication Association for a researcher who has "made important contributions to the field of communications from outside the discipline of communications." In 2014, he received a "Lifetime Achievement" award from the Oxford Internet Institute "in recognition of his extraordinary record of scholarship in social network theory and Internet research which has contributed so much to our understanding of life online." References External links "The Networked Individual: A Profile of Barry Wellman," by Bernie Hogan. Barry Wellman, "Through Life from the Bronx to Cyberspace." Aristeia, Fall, 2005: 24. "Connected Lives and Networked Individualism: The Internet in Everyday Life." Big Ideas, TV Ontario, March 10, 2007. Bryan Kirschner, "Interview with Barry Wellman, S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, on Social Network Analysis and Community.", Port25 (Microsoft Open Source Podcast), December 15, 2006. Cara Donnelly, "Dr. Barry Wellman Comments on the Internet's Social Impact." Hot Topics, April 2006. www.carleton.ca Annick Jesdanun, "Alone on the Internet? Hardly" Associated Press. January 26, 2006. Kenneth Kidd, "It's All in Your Head." Toronto Star, October 9, 2005. pp. I1, I8. Howard Rheingold, "NetLab Probes the Glocal Village." TheFeature.com, December 16, 2004. Diana Kuprel, "The Glocal Village: Internet and Community", Ide&as: Arts & Science Review", University of Toronto, Fall 2004. "Un McLuhan Con Datos." La Vanguardia [Barcelona], November 18, 2001: 10-11. Elaine Carey, "In Netville, Good Nexus Makes Good Neighbours", Toronto Star, September 14, 2000, p. B2; Carin Rubenstein, "The Folks Next Door Aren't Strangers After All", New York Times'', January 7, 1993. Living people The Bronx High School of Science alumni Lafayette College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Toronto faculty 1942 births American sociologists Canadian sociologists Members of the Sociological Research Association Network scientists