Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Social Media History and Use, Pamela C. O’Brien
Section I: Pedagogy
Chapter 1: Using Social Media and Creating Social Media Courses, Tia C. M. Tyree
Chapter 2: Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and Media-Sharing Sites in
the Classroom, Jennifer B. Cox
Chapter 3: Teaching Computational Literacy Through Game Design, Ingrid Sturgis & Todd Shurn
Chapter 4: Social Media and Critical Pedagogy, Kehbuma Langmia & Stella-Monica Mpande
Chapter 5: How to Do Communication Research Using Social Media Data, William B. Hart & Erica C. Taylor
Chapter 6: Conducting Research Utilizing Social Media: Best Practices, Jamie Cohen & Paul Mihailidis
Section II: Social Media Practices in the United States
Chapter 7: African Americans and Social Media, Jayne Cubbage
Chapter 8: The Seven Sisters and Their Siblings Go Digital: An Analysis of Women’s Magazine Content on Websites, iPads, and Cell Phones, Yanick Rice Lamb & Kendra Desrosiers
Chapter 9: Social Branding of College Students to Seek Employment, Jamila A Cupid & S. Lenise Wallace
Chapter 10: Social Media, Law, and Practice, Angela D. Minor Esq.
Section III: International Social Media Practices
Chapter 11: Participatory Media Impact on the Arab Spring, Adam Klein
Chapter 12: Social Media and Participatory Communication: The UNDP and the Diffusion of Empowerment, Nickesia S. Gordon
Chapter 13: Cock Crow in the “Electronic Republic:” Social Media and Kenya’s 2013 Presidential Election, Kehbuma Langmia
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