Dear all, You are invited to the one day symposium on Facebook. The event is free of charge, and is aimed at researchers, lecturers and graduate students working on the topic. Please circulate this invitation widely Facebook: a network, a research tool, a world? 24 October 2008, Liverpool John Moores University For further details please visit our site: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91704.htm Programme: 11.00 - 11.15 Cofee 11.15 - 12.45 Living with Facebook * Facebook, social integration and informal learning at University: ‘It is more for socialising and talking to friends about work than for actually doing work’. Tristram Hooley, CRAC and Jane Wellens, University of Leicester On-line research methods training programme * Social networking or social surveillance? Understanding student's use of Facebook Rhianne Jones, Liverpool John Moors University and Salford University * Facebook's Ethics Ben Light, Kathy McGrath and Marie Griffiths, Salford University 12.45- 13.30 Lunch break 13.30 -14.45 Learning and researching with Facebook * Long lost cousins - using Facebook as an electronic focus group Fiona Frank, Department of Continuing Education, Lancaster University and Department of History, University of Strathclyde. * Whose Space is it anyway? Libraries, Librarians and Facebook Jane Secker, LASSIE project, London School of Economics Dr. Adi Kuntsman Lecturer in Internet and Communication School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts Liverpool John Moores University Dean Walters, 1 St. James Road Liverpool, L1 7BR Email Web