This book explores the phenomenon of online social networking in the contexts of a global multicultural society caught in the turmoil of the information and communication revolution. It offers readers an up-to-date overview of the field and pushes the area into new understandings of the topic within a multidimensional space.

Anastacia Kurylo is assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at St. Joseph's College.
Tatyana Dumova is professor in the School of Communication at Point Park University.

Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Robert Shuter
Introduction: Social Networking Without Walls
Anastacia Kurylo and Tatyana Dumova
Chapter 1: Together and Apart: Social and Technical Networks
Guy Merchant
Chapter 2: The Application of Traditional Social Network Theory to Socially Interactive Technologies
Corey Jay Liberman
Chapter 3: Social Networking Sites, Self-Disclosure, and Personal Engagement
Pamela J. Kalbfleisch
Chapter 4: Mobile Social Networking
Giuseppe Lugano
Chapter 5: Students, the Ivory Tower, and Educational Uses of Social Networking Sites
Anastacia Kurylo and Yifeng Hu
Chapter 6: The Illusion of Control: A Historiographical Examination of Social Media, Bookmarking, and Perceived Control in the Digital Sphere
Pamela E. Walck and Hans K. Meyer
Chapter 7: Social Networking in Times of Crisis
Hayley Watson, Kush Wadhwa, Lemi Baruh, and Salvatore Scifo
Chapter 8: Social Networking Technologies and Social Movements
Zeynep Günel and Lemi Baruh
Chapter 9: Networked Activism in China
Zixue Tai
Chapter 10: Social Network Research Methods: Approaches and Key Issues
Tatyana Dumova
Index
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