An Education in Facebook? (eBook, ePUB)

Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network
Redaktion: Kent, Mike; Leaver, Tama

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An Education in Facebook? examines and critiques the role of Facebook in the evolving landscape of higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134676156
• Artikelnr.: 41208760

Autorenporträt

Mike Kent is a senior lecturer in Internet Studies at Curtin University, where his research focuses on disability and the internet. Tama Leaver is a lecturer in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. He is also a research fellow in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation working in Curtin's Centre for Culture and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1
The Revolution That's Already Happening
Dr Mike Kent & Dr Tama Leaver
Part 1: Transitions
Chapter 2
Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to build a Community for
Students at a UK University
Dr Nick Pearce
Chapter 3
"We use Facebook chat in Lectures of course!" Exploring the use of Facebook
Group by first-year undergraduate students for social and academic support
Eve Stirling
Chapter 4
Facebook as a Student Development Tool
Shane Tilton
Part 2: Facebook in Learning and Teaching
Chapter 5
Beyond Friending: Psychosocial Engagement on Facebook and Its Implications
for Academic Success
Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee
Chapter 6
What's on your Mind? Facebook as a forum for teaching and learning in
Higher Education
Mike Kent
Chapter 7
Academic Armour: Social Etiquette, Social Media and Higher Education.
Collette Snowden and Leanne Glenny
Chapter 8
Exploring Facebook Groups' Potential as Teaching-Learning Environment for
Supervision Purposes
Mona Hajin
Part 3: Facebook as a Learning Management System?
Chapter 9
How Social Should Learning Be? Facebook as a Learning Management System
Tauel Harper
Chapter 10
Facebook and Blackboard as Learning Management Systems: case study
João Mattar
Chapter 11
Rethinking community? Facebook as a learning backchannel
Kate Orton-Johnson
Part 4: Facebook at College
Chapter 12
Facebook at Uni: Mutual Surveillance and a Sense of Belonging
A/Prof Marjorie D Kibby and Dr Janet Fulton,
Chapter 13
Facebook, Student Engagement, and the 'Uni Coffee Shop' Group
Dr Tama Leaver
Chapter 14
'I think it's mad sometimes' - unveiling attitudes to identity-creation and
network-building by Media Studies students on Facebook
Dr Kerry Gough, David Harte and Vanessa Jackson.
Chapter 15
Should We Be Friends? The Question of Facebook in Academic Libraries
Zara T. Wilkinson
Part 5: Boundaries and Privacy
Chapter 16
Unfriending Facebook? Challenges From an Educator's Perspective
Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie and Dr Clare Lloyd
Chapter 17
Role confusion in Facebook groups
Pernilla Josefsson and Fredrik Hanell
Chapter 18
Varying Cultural Conceptions of the Private Sphere and their impact upon
the use of social media networks as educational tools: A German and Chinese
comparison
Xun Luo and Fergal Lenehan
Part 6: (Re)Configuring Facebook
Chapter 19
Changing Facebook's architecture
Sky Croeser
Chapter 20
Facebook, Disability and Higher Education: Accessing the digital campus
Katie Ellis and Mike Kent
Part 7: Conclusions - Beyond Facebook
Chapter 21
Facebook Fatigue? A University's Quest to Build Lifelong Relationships with
Students and Alumni
Maria L. Gallo and Kevin F. Adler
Chapter 22
Understanding the Social Media Ecologies of Employees within Higher
Education Institutions: A UK-Based Case Study
Chris James Carter, Lee Martin and Claire O'Malley