Dear Bercu, et al At least 20 profs have found the Rainie-Wellman Networked book to be a good social media text, in part because it provides social context and in part, by happy chance, it is 11 chapters long. If you do adopt it for a class of 20 or more, then you get either Lee Rainie or me to do a guest lecture by Skype, if you want. Happy Winter, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________