I oversimplify of course, but as the misleading report about his work went viral, it is important to read his blog post http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking/2013/12/30/scholarship-integrity-and-going-viral/ Also a nice story about interplay between scholarly reporting and journalistic reporting. As I sit here with crossed, but hopeful, fingers about a reporter's call -- which might never have happened if NBC hadn't picked up the inaccurate journalistic account. And so it goes... (K Vonnegut) Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________