Identity and leadership in virtual communities
Subtitle: establishing credibility and influence
By: Dona J. Hickey, Joe Essid
Publisher: Information Science Reference; IGI Global
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hershey, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781466651500; 9781466651517; 9781466651531
Subjects: Computer networks; Social aspects; Internet; Group identity
Description: "This book explores the notion of establishing an identity online, managing it like a brand, and using it with particular members of a community"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Identity formation and political potential of social media; title: Turkish youth's (re)construction of their political identity in social media, before "resistanbuli" / Tüge T. Gülen; title: Assemblages of dissent: the emergence of online identities during the egyptian revolution / Katherine Bridgman, Florida State University, USA; title: The emergence of politicized collective identity in online news commentaries as a form of social capital / Nahla Nadeem; title: Celebrity, identity, and social media; title: Constructions of banksy : issues of identity in the age of social media / Cheri Lemieux Spiegel; title: Virtual world avatar branding / Thomas J. Mowbray; title: Educators and digital media; title: Going digital : a beginner's cautionary tale / Elizabeth Hodges; title: Moving mountains : distributed leadership and cyberformance / Karen Keifer-Boyd, Wanda B. Knight, Aaron Knochel, Christine Liao, Mary Elizabeth Meier, Ryan Patton, Ryan Shin, Robert W. Sweeny; title: Faculty users on facebook : what we can learn from women academics-mothers: rhetorical methods for visual self-presentation online / Sarah Spanglerinfluence their careers; title: Social values and ethics in online gaming; title: Friends & rivals : loyalty, ethics, and leadership in bioware's dragon age ii / Kristin Beziocters; title: Supporting visibility and resilience in play : gender-supportive online gaming communities as a model of identity and confidence building in play and learning / Gabriela T. Richard; title: Building and sustaining communities online; title: Internet past tense: trolls, sock-puppets, and good joes in the sandbox newsgroup / Joe Essid; title: Firepups at the lake: ties that bind until they don't / Dona J. Hickey; title: Digital spaces that influence socio-political discourse; title: Digital is dead: techno-seduction at the colonial difference, from zapatismo to occupy wall street / Santos Felipe Ramos; title: The spaces between us.