[ecrea] CFP: An Education in Facebook (Edited collection, abstracts due 19 Jan 2013)

An Education in Facebook?
Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network


Editors: Dr Mike Kent, Dr Tama Leaver and Dr Clare Lloyd, Internet 
Studies, Curtin University

Abstract Submission Deadline 18 January 2013

Full Chapters Due 31 May 2013

We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited collection entitled 
/An Education in Facebook?/ This edited collection will focus on the 
relationship between Facebook and Higher Education. Facebook first 
emerged in 2004 as a social network for students studying at 
universities in the United States. It soon grew beyond North America, 
and beyond the confines of student networking. Having evolved initially 
as a student social space the platform continues to play a prominent 
role in the lives of many students and staff at higher education 
institutions.


The collection will explore the use of Facebook the higher education 
environment as both a social space, and also its growing use as part of 
teaching and learning processes, both formally and informally. From 
students creating informal social groups  around a course of study or 
particular unit, and dedicated online study groups, to the use of 
Facebook  as a formal venue for teaching, we are seeking chapters that 
explore these and related areas.

Is there an appropriate place for Facebook in formal higher education? 
What are the tensions between private and professional spaces online for 
students and teachers and what are the potential dangers of 
unintentional overlap? What are appropriate roles and responsibilities 
for staff, students and institutions in relation to the social network? 
What are the dangers of moving important aspects of the higher education 
learning environment to an external company that exploits social 
interaction for profit? How is the shift to online learning in many 
institutions complemented or challenged by mobile uses of social 
networks, including app use on smartphones and tablets?  This book will 
explore these and other topics interrogating the contemporary role of 
Facebook in Higher Education.


Some suggested topics (which are by no means exhaustive):

· Facebook and/as/or Learning Management Systems?

· Facebook as support network (for online and overseas learners, for 
example)

· Teacher-led Facebook uses as in/formal learning

· Student-led Facebook uses as in/formal learning

· Case studies of Facebook implementation in formal learning

· Informal versus formal learning online

· Social networks and the flipped classroom

· Context collapse

· Privacy issues in social network use

· Copyright issues in social network use

· Mobile learning

· The Facebook App in education

· Roles and boundaries in networked learning

· Facebook as a backchannel (either positive or disruptive)

· The politics of 'friending' in staff and student relations

· Examples of innovative Facebook integration in higher education

· Whether Facebook has a place in formal education

· MOOCs and Facebook

· Comparative uses of Facebook and other online networks (eg Twitter)

Submission procedure:

Potential authors are invited to submit chapter abstract of no more than 
500 words, including a title, 4 to 6 keywords, and a brief bio, by email 
to both Dr Mike Kent <(m.kent /at/ curtin.edu.au) 
<mailto:(m.kent /at/ curtin.edu.au)>> and Dr Tama Leaver 
<(t.leaver /at/ curtin.edu.au) <mailto:(t.leaver /at/ curtin.edu.au)>> by 18 January 
2013. (Please indicate in your proposal if you wish to use any visual 
material, and how you have or will gain copyright clearance for visual 
material.) Authors will receive a response by February 15, 2013, with 
those provisionally accepted due as chapters of no more than 6000 words 
(including references) by 31 May 2013.


About the editors:

The three editors are from the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin 
University. Dr Mike Kent's research focus is on people with disabilities 
and their use of, and access to, information technology and the 
Internet. He recently co-authored the monograph /Disability and New 
Media/ (Routledge, 2011). His other area a research interest is in 
higher education and particularly online education.  Dr Tama Leaver 
researches online identities, digital media distribution and networked 
learning. He previously spent several years as a lecturer in Higher 
Education Development, and is currently also a Research Fellow in 
Curtin's Centre for Culture and Technology. His recent book is 
/Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology and Bodies/ (Routledge, 2012), 
and he is currently co-authoring a monograph entitled /Web Presence: 
Staying Noticed in a Networked World/. Dr Clare Lloyd specialises in 
mobile communication and mobile media. Her recent publications include 
the co-authored papers 'Consuming apps: the Australian woman's slow 
appetite for apps' (2012); and 'Fun and useful apps: female identity 
construction and social connectedness using the mobile phone' apps' (2012).


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Dr Tama Leaver
Lecturer in Internet Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845
Phone: (+61 8) 9266 1258
Fax: (+61 8) 9266 3166
Email: (t.leaver /at/ curtin.edu.au) <mailto:(t.leaver /at/ curtin.edu.au)>
Web: www.tamaleaver.net <http://www.tamaleaver.net>