In the News: Social Networking Tools

Week of April 13, 2009

News Item: Facebook now has 200 million-plus active users who, when they’re not updating their FB profiles, are most likely sending tweets to their Twitter followers, or reading the latest entry on their favorite blog. What social networking tools do you use? Need a starting point? Visit the FAU Libraries’ blog, On and Off the Shelf (Oh look, you’re already here!).

Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
By Naomi S. Baron. Oxford UP, 2008
Call Number: P107 .B37 2008

Blogging America: The New Public Sphere
By Aaron Barlow. Praeger, 2008
Call Number: Available online via Greenwood eBooks

Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media
Edited by Mark Tremayne. Routledge, 2007
Call Number: HM851 .B59 2007 and NetLibrary

Blogosphere: the New Political Arena
By Michael Karen. Lexington Books, 2006
Call Number: HM851 .K57 2006

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
By Will Richardson. Corwin Press, 2006
Call Number: LB1044.87 .R53 2006

Blogwars
By David D. Perlmutter. Oxford UP, 2008
Call Number: JA85.2 .U6 P45 2008

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture
By Andrew Keen. Doubleday/Currency, 2007
Call Number: HM851 .K44 2007 (At Jupiter)

E-Learning and Social Networking Handbook: Resources for Higher Education
By Robin Mason and Frank Rennie. Routledge, 2008
Call Number: LB1044.87 .M26 2008 and online via NetLibrary

Enterprise 2.0: How Social Software Will Change the Future of Work
By Niall Cook. Gower, 2008
Call Number: HD30.335 .C66 2008

Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
By David Weinberger. Times Books, 2007
Call Number: HD30.2 .W4516 2007

Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business
By Steven Holzner. Que, 2009
Call Number: HF5415.1265 .H656 2009

The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
By Jonathan Zittrain. Yale UP, 2008
Call Number: TK5105.875 .I57 Z53 2008

Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies
By Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Call Number: HQ784 .I58 W43 2007

How to Do Everything with YouTube
By Chad Fahs. McGraw-Hill, 2008
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
Edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui. U of Michigan Press, 2008
Call Number: HM851 .T87 2008

Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries
Edited by Laura B. Cohen. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2007
Call Number: Z675 .U5 L48 2007

Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most from Wikis, Blogs, and Other Collaborative Tools
By M. Katherine Brown et al. Wordware Pub, 2007
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics
By Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais. Rutgers UP, 2008
Call Number: JK1764 .W635 2008

Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize, and Engage Youth
By Ben Rigby. Jossey-Bass, 2008
Call Number: HN49 .V64 R54 2008

Mosh the Polls: Youth Voters, Popular Culture, and Democratic Engagement
Edited by Tony Kelso and Brian Cogan. Lexington Books, 2008
Call Number: HQ799.2 .P6 M66 2008

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing, & Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
By David Meerman Scott. John Wiley & Sons, 2009
Call Number: HF5415.1265 .S36 2009 (At Treasure Coast)

The Rise of the Blogosphere
By Aaron Barlow. Praeger, 2007
Call Number: PN4784 .O62 B37 2007 (At Jupiter) and NetLibrary

Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools
Edited by Byron Hawk et al. U of Minnesota Press, 2008
Call Number: TK5105.6 .S62 2008

Social Software and Web 2.0 Technology Trends
Edited by P. Candace Deans. Information Science Reference, 2009
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era
By Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Celebra, 2008
Call Number: HN49 .R33 M68 2008

Teens, Technology, and Literacy: Or, Why Bad Grammar Isn’t Always Bad
By Linda W. Braun. Library Unlimited, 2007
Call Number: LC149.5 .B73 2007

The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington
By David Sirota. Crown Publishers, 2008
Call Number: JK1764 .S5434 2008

Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy: The Next Powerful Step in 21st-Century Learning
By Diane Penrod. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Call Number: PE1422 .P46 2007

Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0  Influencers
Interviewed by Bradley L. Jones. Wiley, 2008
Call Number: TK5105.88817 .W42 2008