Well I don't think I have links that would be of great interest to this list because I teach Child Development and Educational Philosophy, but if it works for that it would definitely work for social media. One of the great links was recently provided on this list by Sarah Oates I think (sorry if I got the name wrong) to a paper about Google Trends that was really at the cutting edge. The technology writer at Salon.com for instance like Andrew Leonard and Natasha Lennard especially for social media are phenomenal and always provide links. There are just so many out there. Michael ________________________________ From: Muhammad Babur [baburanwer@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:42 PM To: Glassman, Michael Cc: Kelly Quinn; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media Hi Michael You make a lot of sense . Can you share some of your most favorite links .. KR On 5 June 2013 22:39, Glassman, Michael <glassman.13@osu.edu<mailto:glassman.13@osu.edu>> wrote: I wonder if people have thought about throwing out written materials and treating social media not only as the topic but as the means of the course? Provide students with interesting links about social media. Forward them interesting discussion from this and other interesting lists. Have them follow interesting scholars through Twitter or an SNS and have them bring links back to the class (and yes I have taught a course like this, but not on Social Media). Most of the best stuff I have read recently I have found through links not through books. A new type of education for a new age. Michael ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>] on behalf of Kelly Quinn [kquinn8@uic.edu<mailto:kquinn8@uic.edu>] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:29 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media Hi Kayla, I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course around four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political participation. Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I also have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be helpful. Kindest regards, Kelly Quinn -- Kelly Quinn, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- Kind Regards, Muhammad Babur Founder and Executive Board Member (ELLTA : www.ellta.org<http://www.ellta.org>)