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