Social networking
By: Noah Berlatsky, book editor
Series: Global viewpoints; Global viewpoints
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780737762709; 9780737764468
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Social networking; Online social networks; Social networks
Description: Presents a collection of essays that looks at social networking, focusing on the popularity, uses, democratic movements of social networking and other topics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: The popularity of social networking.; title: The Philippines leads the world in social networking  -- Jon Russell; title: Indonesian society is enamored with social networking  -- Sarah Mishkin; title: Africa is beginning to experience a boom in social networking using mobile phones  -- Andre-Michel Essoungou; title: The Japanese tsunami may spur more widespread use of social media  -- Eric Johnston; title: Facebook's popularity may have peaked in the United Kingdom and other Western nations  -- Charles Arthur -- ch. 2.; title: Uses of social networking.; title: In Western Europe, journalists make increasing use of social networks in their reporting  -- Cision; title: In the United States, social networking is helping military veterans recover from trauma  -- Matthew M. Burke; title: In Canada, social media is being explored as a disaster warning device  -- Janet Davison; title: When Chavez tweets, Venezuelans listen  -- Ezequiel Minaya and Kejal Vyas -- ch. 3.; title: Social Networking and democratic movements.; title: Worldwide, social networking may help authoritarian regimes more than it helps democratic movements  -- The Economist; title: Social networking was important in, though not solely responsible for, Tunisia's revolution  -- Ethan Zuckerman; title: Social networking has opened Singapore to democracy  -- Raymond Tham; title: The Web that failed: how opposition politics and independent initiatives are failing on the Internet in Russia  -- Floriana Fossato and John Lloyd with Alexander Verkhovsky -- ch. 4.; title: Social networking and access to information.; title: Social media privacy issues must be addressed  -- David Lindsay and Ian Brown, as told to Damien Carrick; title: The German government is demanding that Facebook address privacy concerns  -- Christopher Williams; title: Britain's Internet crackdown could herald more censorship of the Internet  -- Peter Apps; title: In Mexico, criminal gangs police social media  -- Samuel Logan; title: India is contemplating censoring social media  -- Sujoy Dhar; title: Cuba's young people have little access to social media -- Franco Ordonez.