Social networking : redefining communication in the digital age / edited by Anastacia Kurylo and Tatyana Dumova.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Robert Shuter -- Introduction: social networking without walls / Anastacia Kurylo and Tatyana Dumova -- Together and apart : social and technical networks / Guy Merchant -- The application of traditional social network theory to socially interactive technologies / Corey Jay Liberman -- Social networking sites, self-disclosure, and personal engagement / Pamela J. Kalbfleisch -- Mobile social networking / Giuseppe Lugano -- Students, the ivory tower, and educational uses of social networking sites / Anastacia Kurylo and Yifeng Hu -- 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 -- Social networking in times of crisis / Hayley Watson, Kush Wadhwa, Lemi Baruh, and Salvatore Scifo -- Social networking technologies and social movements / Zeynep Günel and Lemi Baruh -- Networked activism in china / Zixue Tai -- Social network research methods : approaches and key issues / Tatyana Dumova -- Index -- About the contributors.