Product Description: Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two research grants and real-world applications. Barnes analyzes social media including Facebook, Courseware, and Second Life, while providing a theoretical foundation for examining social software...read more

Product Description: This book won the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction 2014 Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. One such impact has been the transformation of computer-mediated-communication (CMC) into social networking...read more

Product Description:   Web Research: Selecting, Evaluating, and Citing provides helpful tips on how to find, select, and cite information accessed on the World Wide Web, with topics that include the Web as a research tool, types of Web sites and information credibility, content evaluation, copyright issues, and when and how to cite Web sources...read more

Product Description: Computer-Mediated Communication introduces students to the terms, theories, and issues associated with the use of the Internet in personal and social contexts. Each section of this text focuses on helping students understand how computer-mediated communication (CMC) is used in contemporary society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a unique study of electronic culture in the making. The book describes a networked computer culture that in one way or another touches us all. Through case studies and ethnographic observations, this book discusses how and why people develop interpersonal relationships through the Internet and gives the reader an opportunity to study how people develop norms, values, communities, and cultural belief systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)