Education in Facebook?

Mike Kent is a senior lecturer in Internet Studies at Curtin University, where his research focuses on disability and the internet.Tama Leaver is a lecturer in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. He is also a research fellow in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation working in Curtin’s Centre for Culture and Technology.

"Mike Kent and Tama Leaver have assembled a compelling array of studies of Facebook which range widely in their analytical preoccupations. They render significant insights for educators, students and policy-makers alike. At times intensely practical and at others more deeply theoretical, this intelligent collection generally eschews technological determinism and poses all the right questions. In their editing, Leaver and Kent have kept true to a sophisticated view which positions pedagogy, student and academic engagement and issues of identity at the core. The dynamic interaction between learners, teachers and technologies, and abiding issues including identity, privacy and copyright, assure the longevity of this work in relation to Facebook, and beyond. I read it thirstily and will benefit from its richness. In a word? ‘Like.’"-- Professor Jane Long, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), La Trobe University, Australia"This excellent collection of critical work on the way Facebook influences and has become part of higher education is both timely and necessary. It brings together a series of diverse perspectives that reveal how online learning cannot be reduced to simplistic policies and standardised techniques but instead is the working out of the intricate patterns of desire, attention, information and identity that is, after all, the reality of all educational encounters. Kent and Lever and their contributors have produced a work of great value, that also tells us much about the way Facebook has changed human social interaction."--Professor Matthew Allen, Head of School and Professor of Internet Studies, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsContributorsChapter 1The Revolution That's Already HappeningDr Mike Kent & Dr Tama LeaverPart 1: TransitionsChapter 2Challenges and Opportunities in Using Facebook to build a Community for Students at a UK UniversityDr Nick PearceChapter 3"We use Facebook chat in Lectures of course!" Exploring the use of Facebook Group by first-year undergraduate students for social and academic supportEve StirlingChapter 4Facebook as a Student Development ToolShane TiltonPart 2: Facebook in Learning and Teaching Chapter 5Beyond Friending: Psychosocial Engagement on Facebook and Its Implications for Academic SuccessCatherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. LeeChapter 6What's on your Mind? Facebook as a forum for teaching and learning in Higher EducationMike KentChapter 7Academic Armour: Social Etiquette, Social Media and Higher Education.Collette Snowden and Leanne GlennyChapter 8Exploring Facebook Groups’ Potential as Teaching-Learning Environment for Supervision PurposesMona HajinPart 3: Facebook as a Learning Management System?Chapter 9How Social Should Learning Be? Facebook as a Learning Management SystemTauel HarperChapter 10Facebook and Blackboard as Learning Management Systems: case studyJoão MattarChapter 11Rethinking community? Facebook as a learning backchannelKate Orton-JohnsonPart 4: Facebook at CollegeChapter 12Facebook at Uni: Mutual Surveillance and a Sense of BelongingA/Prof Marjorie D Kibby and Dr Janet Fulton,Chapter 13Facebook, Student Engagement, and the 'Uni Coffee Shop' GroupDr Tama LeaverChapter 14‘I think it's mad sometimes' - unveiling attitudes to identity-creation and network-building by Media Studies students on FacebookDr Kerry Gough, David Harte and Vanessa Jackson.Chapter 15Should We Be Friends? The Question of Facebook in Academic LibrariesZara T. WilkinsonPart 5: Boundaries and PrivacyChapter 16Unfriending Facebook? Challenges From an Educator's PerspectiveDr Kate Raynes-Goldie and Dr Clare LloydChapter 17Role confusion in Facebook groupsPernilla Josefsson and Fredrik HanellChapter 18Varying Cultural Conceptions of the Private Sphere and their impact upon the use of social media networks as educational tools: A German and Chinese comparisonXun Luo and Fergal LenehanPart 6: (Re)Configuring FacebookChapter 19Changing Facebook's architectureSky CroeserChapter 20Facebook, Disability and Higher Education: Accessing the digital campus Katie Ellis and Mike KentPart 7: Conclusions - Beyond FacebookChapter 21Facebook Fatigue? A University's Quest to Build Lifelong Relationships with Students and AlumniMaria L. Gallo and Kevin F. AdlerChapter 22Understanding the Social Media Ecologies of Employees within Higher Education Institutions: A UK-Based Case StudyChris James Carter, Lee Martin and Claire O’Malley