[Air-L] teaching social media -- in context

[Barry Wellman]

Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and I 
deliberately wrote Networked: The New Social Operating System to place 
social media in context of societal changes, especially in the West. 
Immodestly, I still think that is a useful approach rather than looking 
narrowly on social media.

The Amazon link to this MIT Press book is: http://amzn.to/zXZg39

Lee and I are also happy to lecture to your class about this book, if you 
order a score of copies.

There are other books taking this contextual approach, such as
Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society.
Anabel Quan-Haase, Technology and Society
Mark Graham & William Dutton, eds, Society and the Internet

   Barry Wellman

    A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head
    Step by step, link by link, putting it together
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