Week 9: The next generation (this means you). (COMM 410: New Media and Community Life (Fall 2006))

Week 9: The next generation (this means you).

Readings

Farrell , Elizabeth. (September 2, 2005) “Logging On, Tuning Out: When Students Lose Themselves in Online Worlds, it can be Hard to bring Them Back to Reality.” The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Mesch, G., & Talmud, I. (2006). The Quality of Online and Offline Relationships: The Role of Multiplexity and Duration of Social Relationships. The Information Society, 22, 137-148.

Ling, R., & Yttri, B. (2006). Control, Emancipation, and Status. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Keisler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 219-234). New York: Oxford University press.

Ito, M., & Okabe, D. (2006). Intimate Connections. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Keisler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 235-247). New York: Oxford University press.

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