Identity and leadership in virtual communities : establishing credibility and influence / [edited by] Dona J. Hickey, Joe Essid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hickey, Dona J., editor.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Advances in social networking and online communities book series

Advances in social networking and online communities (ASNOC) book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Social aspects.

Computer networks.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

xviii, 301 pages ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, [2014]

Summary:

"This book explores the notion of establishing an identity online, managing it like a brand, and using it with particular members of a community"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Identity formation and political potential of social media

Turkish youth's (re)construction of their political identity in social media, before "resistanbuli" / Tüge T. Gülen

Assemblages of dissent: the emergence of online identities during the egyptian revolution / Katherine Bridgman, Florida State University, USA

The emergence of politicized collective identity in online news commentaries as a form of social capital / Nahla Nadeem

Celebrity, identity, and social media

Constructions of banksy : issues of identity in the age of social media / Cheri Lemieux Spiegel

Virtual world avatar branding / Thomas J. Mowbray

Educators and digital media

Going digital : a beginner's cautionary tale / Elizabeth Hodges

Moving mountains : distributed leadership and cyberformance / Karen Keifer-Boyd, Wanda B. Knight, Aaron Knochel, Christine Liao, Mary Elizabeth Meier, Ryan Patton, Ryan Shin, Robert W. Sweeny

Faculty users on facebook : what we can learn from women academics-mothers: rhetorical methods for visual self-presentation online / Sarah Spanglerinfluence their careers

Social values and ethics in online gaming

Friends & rivals : loyalty, ethics, and leadership in bioware's dragon age ii / Kristin Beziocters

Supporting visibility and resilience in play : gender-supportive online gaming communities as a model of identity and confidence building in play and learning / Gabriela T. Richard

Building and sustaining communities online

Internet past tense: trolls, sock-puppets, and good joes in the sandbox newsgroup / Joe Essid

Firepups at the lake: ties that bind until they don't / Dona J. Hickey

Digital spaces that influence socio-political discourse

Digital is dead: techno-seduction at the colonial difference, from zapatismo to occupy wall street / Santos Felipe Ramos

The spaces between us.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781466651500

1466651504

9781466651531

1466651539

OCLC:

862100625