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.

Social Networking addresses a subject matter of keen interest to academics and practitioners alike and provides a much-needed forum for sharing innovative research.... Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age is an impressive body of exceptional scholarship and a critically important contribution to professional and academic library Communication Studies reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.

• Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Foreword Robert ShuterIntroduction: Social Networking Without WallsAnastacia Kurylo and Tatyana DumovaChapter 1: Together and Apart: Social and Technical Networks Guy MerchantChapter 2: The Application of Traditional Social Network Theory to Socially Interactive Technologies Corey Jay LibermanChapter 3: Social Networking Sites, Self-Disclosure, and Personal Engagement Pamela J. KalbfleischChapter 4: Mobile Social Networking Giuseppe LuganoChapter 5: Students, the Ivory Tower, and Educational Uses of Social Networking Sites Anastacia Kurylo and Yifeng HuChapter 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. MeyerChapter 7: Social Networking in Times of Crisis Hayley Watson, Kush Wadhwa, Lemi Baruh, and Salvatore ScifoChapter 8: Social Networking Technologies and Social Movements Zeynep Günel andLemi BaruhChapter 9: Networked Activism in China Zixue TaiChapter 10: Social Network Research Methods: Approaches and Key Issues Tatyana DumovaIndex About the Contributors

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.

Social Networking addresses a subject matter of keen interest to academics and practitioners alike and provides a much-needed forum for sharing innovative research.... Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age is an impressive body of exceptional scholarship and a critically important contribution to professional and academic library Communication Studies reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.

• Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Foreword Robert ShuterIntroduction: Social Networking Without WallsAnastacia Kurylo and Tatyana DumovaChapter 1: Together and Apart: Social and Technical Networks Guy MerchantChapter 2: The Application of Traditional Social Network Theory to Socially Interactive Technologies Corey Jay LibermanChapter 3: Social Networking Sites, Self-Disclosure, and Personal Engagement Pamela J. KalbfleischChapter 4: Mobile Social Networking Giuseppe LuganoChapter 5: Students, the Ivory Tower, and Educational Uses of Social Networking Sites Anastacia Kurylo and Yifeng HuChapter 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. MeyerChapter 7: Social Networking in Times of Crisis Hayley Watson, Kush Wadhwa, Lemi Baruh, and Salvatore ScifoChapter 8: Social Networking Technologies and Social Movements Zeynep Günel andLemi BaruhChapter 9: Networked Activism in China Zixue TaiChapter 10: Social Network Research Methods: Approaches and Key Issues Tatyana DumovaIndex About the Contributors

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.

Social Networking addresses a subject matter of keen interest to academics and practitioners alike and provides a much-needed forum for sharing innovative research.... Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age is an impressive body of exceptional scholarship and a critically important contribution to professional and academic library Communication Studies reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.

• Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Foreword Robert ShuterIntroduction: Social Networking Without WallsAnastacia Kurylo and Tatyana DumovaChapter 1: Together and Apart: Social and Technical Networks Guy MerchantChapter 2: The Application of Traditional Social Network Theory to Socially Interactive Technologies Corey Jay LibermanChapter 3: Social Networking Sites, Self-Disclosure, and Personal Engagement Pamela J. KalbfleischChapter 4: Mobile Social Networking Giuseppe LuganoChapter 5: Students, the Ivory Tower, and Educational Uses of Social Networking Sites Anastacia Kurylo and Yifeng HuChapter 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. MeyerChapter 7: Social Networking in Times of Crisis Hayley Watson, Kush Wadhwa, Lemi Baruh, and Salvatore ScifoChapter 8: Social Networking Technologies and Social Movements Zeynep Günel andLemi BaruhChapter 9: Networked Activism in China Zixue TaiChapter 10: Social Network Research Methods: Approaches and Key Issues Tatyana DumovaIndex About the Contributors