Online social networking on campus
Subtitle: understanding what matters in student culture
By: Ana M. Martinez Aleman, [Katherine Lynk Wartman].
Contributors: Wartman, Katherine Lynk.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780415990196; 9780415990202; 9780203884966
Subjects: College students -- Social networks -- United States; Online social networks -- United States
Description: "In the era of such online spaces as Facebook, Instant Messenger, Live Journal, Blogger, Web Shots, and campus blogs, college students are using these resources and other online sites as a social medium. Inevitably, this medium presents students with ethical decisions about social propriety, self disclosure and acceptable behaviour. Because online social networking sites have proven problematic for college students and for college administrators, this book aims to offer professional guidance to Higher Education administrators and policy makers." "Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture is a professional guide for Higher Education faculty and Student Affairs administrators, which rigorously examines college students' use of online social networking sites and how they use these to develop relationships both on and off campus. Most importantly, Online Social Networking on Campus investigates how college students use online sites to explore and make sense of their identities. Providing information taken from interviews, surveys, and focus group data, the book presents an ethnographic view of social networking that will help Student Affairs administrators, Information Technology administrators, and faculty better understand and provide guidance to the "neomillennials" on their campuses."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : campus life online; title: Emergence and acceleration : computer-mediated communication; title: Students speak : campus culture, identity, and facebook; title: The new campus reality : facebook and student affairs practice; title: The future of the campus social graph.