Connected Lives: The Project

Documents the methodology and early findings of the Connected Lives study in Toronto, which combined surveys, interviews, and communication logs to study the interplay between ICTs, community, and domestic relationships. A methodological blueprint for studying networked individualism through mixed-methods approaches that capture both network structure and lived experience.

The Connected Lives project operationalizes "networked individualism" as a researchable paradigm, showing that community is better understood through individual network structures than through geographic or group-based categories. What counts as "community" depends on the unit of analysis, and the network lens reveals patterns that group-based and place-based approaches cannot capture.