Contributors:
- Barry Wellman, NetLab Network, University of Toronto
- Wenhong Chen, School of Communication, University of Texas-Austin
- Jeffrey Boase, Institute of Culture, Communication & Information Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Yuli Patrick Hsieh, RTI International, Evanston, IL
- Alice Renwen Zhang
- Maggie Gan Chan, School of Journalism & Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The main objectives of this panel are:
1) To expand the knowledge of other conference participants about how social media and social networks are developing in East Asia;
2) To demonstrate how changes in specific societies are acting in both similar and different ways, as they move to Asian forms of networked individualism;
3) To summarize some key findings from the forthcoming two issues of the American Behavioral Scientist, “Social Networks in East and South East Asia