FRONT COVER -- TEACHING ARTS AND SCIENCE WITH THE NEW SOCIAL MEDIA -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: SOCIAL LEARNING AND NETWORKING APPROACHES TO TEACHING ARTS AND SCIENCE -- NEW DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATING WITH STUDENTS: INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING ARTS AND SCIENCE WITH THE NEW SOCIAL MEDIA -- REFERENCE -- FOSTERING MEANING AND COMMUNITY IN WRITING COURSES VIA SOCIAL MEDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- AN INTRODUCTION TO BLOGGING -- QUICK BLOGGING VIA POSTEROUS TO PROMOTE COLLABORATION -- AN INTRODUCTION TO MICROBLOGGING -- MICROBLOGGING VIA TWITTER TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY -- SUMMARY OF STUDENTS' OBSERVATIONS ON BLOGGING AND TWEETING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- LEARNING ABOUT MEDIA EFFECTS BY BUILDING A WIKI COMMUNITY: STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND SATISFACTION -- WHAT DOES EXTANT LITERATURE TELL US ABOUT USING HYBRID COURSES TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING? -- BUILDING A WIKI COMMUNITY IN AN UNDERGRADUATE MEDIA EFFECTS COURSE -- DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS -- STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND SATISFACTION WITH BUILDING A WIKI COMMUNITY: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES -- WHAT CAN TEACHERS LEARN FROM THIS STUDY? -- LIMITATIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FACEBOOK, ''FRIENDING,'' AND FACULTY-STUDENT COMMUNICATION -- THREE-PARAGRAPH OVERVIEW -- FACEBOOK, ''FRIENDING,'' AND FACULTY-STUDENT COMMUNICATION -- INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATION -- FROM BRICKS AND MORTAR TO BLOGS AND WIKIS -- FACEBOOK -- FACEBOOK IN THE UNIVERSITY -- METHOD -- ''FRIENDING'' FACEBOOK -- INTEGRATING FACEBOOK INTO INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART II: SOCIAL MEDIA PEDAGOGIES FOR THE FUTURE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE LEARNING -- HOW TWITTER SAVED MY LITERATURE CLASS: A CASE STUDY WITH DISCUSSION -- I. -- II. -- III. -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL LEARNING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA: EXPANDING AND EXTENDING THE COMMUNICATION STUDIES CLASSROOM.

INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY AND APPROACH -- NEW LEARNING STYLES AND THEORIES: AN OVERVIEW -- TECHNOSOCIAL AFFORDANCES OF SOCIAL MEDIA: USES, FUNCTIONS, AND FEATURES -- SOCIAL MEDIA IN ACTION -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- TEACHING SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS TO JOURNALISM STUDENTS -- SOCIAL MEDIA AND MEDIA LITERACY -- RELIABILITY -- RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION -- RELIABILITY OF SOURCES -- SOCIAL MEDIA AS A RESEARCH TOOL -- A REAL-TIME SEARCH FOR INFORMATION -- TAPPING IN TO THE TWITTOSPHERE -- TWITTER AS A CONTACTS LIST -- WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE? -- WHO NEEDS A SATELLITE TRUCK? -- CROWDSOURCING -- SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS DISSEMINATION -- ANYONE CAN BE A NEWSPAPER OR A TELEVISION STATION THESE DAYS -- TRANSPARENCY -- SPREADING THE WORD THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA -- HOW PERSONAL IS TOO PERSONAL? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- UNLOCKING THE VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY: THE CONVERGENCE OF COURSE, CONTENT, DELIVERY, AND MARKETING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA -- SOCIAL MEDIA IDEOLOGY -- CATEGORIZATION OF INFORMATION -- SILOS DO NOT PROMOTE SHARING -- ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY REDUCES COSTS AND IMPROVES ACCESS -- CONVERGENCE -- ROUND PEGS: INNOVATIONS EMPLOYING SOCIAL MEDIA IDEOLOGY -- PIU AND EDUFIRE: CREATING THE BLENDED, SOCIAL-LEARNING MODEL -- HOW TO EMPLOY SIMILAR TECHNIQUES AND PRINCIPLES TO TRANSFORM OTHER UNIVERSITIES -- CONCLUSION: CONVERGENCE IN WHOLE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART III: LEARNING ARTS AND SCIENCE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL WORLDS -- UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATION PROCESSES IN A 3D ONLINE SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLD -- THE UNIQUENESS OF SECOND LIFE -- SOCIAL STRATEGIES IN SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLDS -- FOUR FACTORS SHAPING COMMUNICATION PROCESSES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL CLASSROOM COLLABORATION: PRACTICAL APPROACHES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SECOND LIFE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ART OF THE SOCIAL BRICOLEUR.

LITERATURE REVIEW -- CASE STUDY -- PROJECT ISSUES -- LESSONS LEARNED -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- USING MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN TERTIARY TEACHING: LESSONS LEARNED THROUGH THE UQ RELIGION BAZAAR PROJECT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDIES IN RELIGION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND -- THE RELEVANCE OF ANDRAGOGY AND CONSTRUCTIVIST METHODOLOGIES -- MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND AFFORDANCES -- BACK TO STUDIES IN RELIGION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND -- GUIDELINES FOR THOSE CONSIDERING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MUVEs -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: BLOGGING AND MICRO-BLOGGING IN A NEW EPOCH OF TEACHING ARTS AND SCIENCE -- FOSTERING AN ECOLOGY OF OPENNESS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK -- INTRODUCTION -- A CONTINUUM OF OPENNESS AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY -- DEFINING SOCIAL MEDIA -- OU-HOSTED OPEN AND SOCIAL MEDIA -- DEVELOPING AN OU PRESENCE ON EXTERNALLY HOSTED OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE PLATFORMS -- THE BENEFITS OF USING THE NEW SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT -- THE CHALLENGES OF USING THE NEW SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- DISCONNECT36: A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT TO TEACH STUDENTS TO SHUT DOWN, TURN OFF, AND UNDERSTAND CONNECTIVITY -- REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE -- DISCONNECT36 ASSIGNMENT BASICS AND STUDENT PREPARATIONS -- PEDAGOGICAL CONCERNS AND IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- IS PODCASTING AN EFFECTIVE RESOURCE FOR ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING? -- STUDENT FEEDBACK ABOUT PODCASTING -- STAFF PERSPECTIVES -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO MICRO-BLOGGING THROUGH COLLABORATIVE WORK: USING TWITTER TO PROMOTE CROSS-UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS AND DISCUSSIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

SOCIAL MEDIA ASSEMBLAGES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES: FROM BACKCHANNEL TO BUZZ -- SOCIAL ASSEMBLAGE NETWORKS -- EXOHUMANIST MEDIASCAPES -- MICROBLOGGING MONSTROSITIES -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL MEDIA AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOL: USING BLOGS, MICROBLOGS, AND SOCIAL BOOKMARKS TO CREATE PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS -- INTRODUCTION -- BUILDING A PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK -- MAINTAINING A PLN -- PLNS AT WORK IN A UNIVERSITY SETTING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MICRO-BLOGGING AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM: APPROACHES AND CONSIDERATIONS -- CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS -- THE LARGER CONTEXT OF MICRO-BLOGGING -- MY EXPERIENCE IN INTEGRATING TWITTER IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM -- LARGER CONSIDERATIONS FOR TWITTER'S USE -- MY EXPERIENCE, IN SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- SUBJECT INDEX.