Social networking : redefining communication in the digital age / edited by Anastacia Kurylo and Tatyana Dumova. - Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; (c)2016. Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xii, 189 pages). - The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Introduction: social networking without walls / Together and apart : social and technical networks / The application of traditional social network theory to socially interactive technologies / Social networking sites, self-disclosure, and personal engagement / Mobile social networking / Students, the ivory tower, and educational uses of social networking sites / The illusion of control : a historiographical examination of social media, bookmarking, and perceived control in the digital sphere / Social networking in times of crisis / Social networking technologies and social movements / Networked activism in china / Social network research methods : approaches and key issues / Index -- About the contributors. Robert Shuter -- Anastacia Kurylo and Tatyana Dumova -- Guy Merchant -- Corey Jay Liberman -- Pamela J. Kalbfleisch -- Giuseppe Lugano -- Anastacia Kurylo and Yifeng Hu -- Pamela E. Walck and Hans K. Meyer -- Hayley Watson, Kush Wadhwa, Lemi Baruh, and Salvatore Scifo -- Zeynep Günel and Lemi Baruh -- Zixue Tai -- Tatyana Dumova --



9781611477399

2016006594


Online social networks.
Social media.
Social movements--Technological innovations.
Social networks--Research--Methodology.


Electronic Books.

HM742 / .S635 2016