Facebook: a network, a research tool, a world?
One day symposium, 24 October 2008, Dean Walters Building, rooms 103-104
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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, Salford University; Kathy McGrath, Brunel University; and Marie Griffiths, Salford University Click here to access the presentation Full-length paper is available on Ben Light's website, please click here to access the paper
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. Click here to access the presentation
Whose Space is it anyway? Libraries, Librarians and Facebook
Jane Secker, LASSIE project, London School of Economics Click here to access the presentation
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