Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-8823-1 • Paperback • October 2013 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-4015-4 • eBook • April 2012 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Susan B. Barnes is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Associate Director of the Social Computing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
Introduction
Chapter 1: What are Social Media?
Chapter 2: Self Identity and Awareness
Chapter 3: Space Versus Place
Chapter 4: Structure of Networking Communities
Chapter 5: Awareness and Notification
Chapter 6: Second Life and Social Presence
Chapter 7: Ethical Issues in Virtual Worlds
Chapter 8: Social Norms
Chapter 9: Trust Online
Chapter 10: Remix Culture
Chapter 11: Social Capital: The Goal of Social Networking
Conclusion
In Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, Susan Barnes has illuminated a new approach to the study of using technology in the classroom, one that takes into account the dynamic social changes in students and their engagement with technology. In this valuable new work, Barnes opens new windows into understanding the multiple media illiteracies of students, through the lens of media ecology. While many either bemoan or overtly praise the way technology has been introduced to the classroom, Barnes and her team ask tough questions, and provide valuable answers to anyone wondering how students really learn.
— Brian Cogan, Molloy College, author of Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression
Barnes and her colleagues offer a useful analysis of the digital age in sociological terms. Socializing the Classroom is packed with historical context, real-life situations, and the thinking of diverse researchers and theorists.
— Paul Levinson, Fordham University, author of New New Media