[Air-L] Symposium on Facebook, 24 October 2008, Liverpool John Moores University

[Adi Kuntsman]

Dear all,

You are invited to the one day symposium on Facebook. The event is free
of charge, and is aimed at researchers, lecturers and graduate students
working on the topic. Please circulate this invitation widely

Facebook: a network, a research tool, a world?
24 October 2008, Liverpool John Moores University
For further details please visit our site: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91704.htm

Programme: 
11.00 - 11.15 Cofee 

11.15 - 12.45 Living with Facebook 

	* Facebook, social integration and informal learning at University:
‘It is more for socialising and talking to friends about work than for
actually doing work’. Tristram Hooley, CRAC and Jane Wellens, University of Leicester On-line research methods training programme 
	* Social networking or social surveillance? Understanding student's use of Facebook  Rhianne Jones, Liverpool John Moors University and Salford University 
	* Facebook's Ethics  Ben Light, Kathy McGrath and Marie Griffiths, Salford University
12.45- 13.30 Lunch break 

13.30 -14.45 Learning and researching with Facebook 

	* Long lost cousins - using Facebook as an electronic focus group  Fiona Frank, Department of Continuing Education, Lancaster University and  Department of History, University of Strathclyde. 
	* Whose Space is it anyway? Libraries, Librarians and Facebook Jane Secker, LASSIE project, London School of Economics  
  
Dr. Adi Kuntsman 
Lecturer in Internet and Communication 
School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts 
Liverpool John Moores University 
Dean Walters, 1 St. James Road 
Liverpool, L1 7BR 
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