Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-6729-8 • Hardback • November 2011 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
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978-0-7391-6730-4 • eBook • December 2011 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Hana S. Noor Al-Deen is professor of communication at University of North Carolina Wilmington. John Allen Hendricks is professor of communication at Stephen F. Austin State University and author of The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry.
List of Figures and Tables
List of Appendices
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Social Media and Social Networking
Chapter 1. Facebook
Chapter 2. Social Media and Persuasion
Chapter 3. The Trivial Pursuits of Mass Audiences Using Social Media
Part II. Social Media and Education
Chapter 4. Social Media in Education
Chapter 5. You Can't Go Back Now
Chapter 6. Tweeting 101
Chapter 7. Cultivating a Community of Learners
Part III. Social Media and Strategic Communication
Chapter 8. Attitudes and Perceptions about Social Media among College Students and Professionals Involved and Not Involved in Strategic Communications
Chapter 9. Beyond the Press Release
Chapter 10. Marketing and Branding in Online Social Media Environments
Part IV. Social Media and Politics
Chapter 11. Social Media and the Millennial Generation in the 2010 Midterm Election
Chapter 12. Social Media and Youth Activism
Chapter 13. Black Youth, Social Media, and the 2008 Presidential Election
Part V. Social Media and Legal/Ethical Issues
Chapter 14. Legal Pitfalls of Social Media Usage
Chapter 15. The Realm of the Expected
Chapter 16. Tweets, Blogs, Facebook, and the Ethics of 21st Century Communication Technology
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
This excellent edited book smartly moves the literature about social media past the wow-gee-whiz/technology-love-fest stage that has accompanied the emergence of these new means of communication. It gives a good 360-view of why social media are important, including who uses them, and how and why they use them. It also covers legal and ethical issues raised by social media, a crucial set of concerns that come to the fore as these media grow in adoption, usage, and influence. Communication students will find in this book a thoughtful and rich perspective on activities they take for granted and accept uncritically.
— Joan Van Tassel, National University
This book provides explanations that will be useful for both academics and professionals interested in communication and its societal functions to inform, to create context, to spread dominant and emerging cultures, and of course to entertain.
— Gary Copeland, University of Alabama
A brave and successful effort to capture the essence and importance of social media with rigorous studies that add up to a vital snapshot in time of this ever-changing platform. Under editors Noor Al-Deen and Hendricks, some twenty-five scholars offer a unique and pace-setting assessment of the newest of the new media.
— Everette E. Dennis, Northwestern University in Qatar
Social Media: Usage and Impact, edited by Hana S. Noor Al-Deen and John Allen Hendricks, is not designed as an ethics text, but many of the chapters uncover ethical questions inherent in this new medium. The book becomes a much more effective text for teaching ethics by the very fact that it was not meant to do so. Each chapter raises questions that, because of the infancy of the medium, have yet to be fully examined. Some of these ethical questions arise from research behavior in social media spaces. . . . Many of the studies in this collection provide excellent real-world examples of the challenges and possible pitfalls of research in the realm of social media.
— Journal of Media Ethics