A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites: Papacharissi, Zizi (Editor), Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo (Introduction by), Routledge:

A Networked Self examines self presentation and social connection in the digital age. This collection brings together new theory and research on online social networks by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics addressed include self presentation, behavioral norms, patterns and routines, social impact, privacy, class/ gender/ race divides, taste cultures online, uses of social networking sites within organizations, activism, civic engagement, and political impact.

“The complex and sometimes contradictory phenomena of social media are among the most discussed aspects of digital culture today, and A Networked Self examines these phenomena through a variety of perspectives and approaches from sociology and communication theory. The collection offers new insights into the ways in which the affordances of social media lead users to construct, maintain, and remix their identities online. It provides solid evidence that we as a culture are indeed reshaping our social and political lives in and through social media. Both for its variety and depth, this collection will be an important resource for all students of digital culture for years to come.” — Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, co-author of Remediation: Understanding New Media

Introduction and Keynote to the Networked Self
Albert-László Barabási

Part One

Context: Communication Theory and Social Network Sites

1. Interaction of Interpersonal, Peer, and Media Influence Sources Online: A Research Agenda for Technology Convergence
Joseph B. Walther, Caleb Carr, Scott Seung W. Choi, David DeAndrea, Jinsuk Kim, Stephanie Tom Tong, Brandon Van Der Heide

2. Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implication
danah boyd

3. Addictive, Compulsive, or Just Another Habit?
Robert LaRose, Junghyun Kim, and Wei Peng

4. Social Network Exploitation
Mark Andrejevic

Part Two

Social Textures: Emerging Patterns of Sociability on Social Network Sites

5. Social Network Sites as Virtual Communities
Malcolm R. Parks

6. “With a little help from my Friends: How social network sites affect social capital processes”
Nicole Ellison, Cliff Lampe, Charles Steinfield, and Jessica Vitak

7. From Dabblers to Omnivores:A Typology of Social Network Site Usage
Eszter Hargittai and Yu-Li Patrick Hsieh

8. Exploring the Use of Social Network Sites in the Workplace
Mary Beth Watson-Manheim

Part Three

Convergent Practices: Intuitive Appropriations of SNS Affordances

9. United We Stand? Online Social Nework Sites and Civic Engagement
Thomas J. Johnson, Weiwu Zhang, Shannon L. Bichard, and Trent Seltzer

10. Between Barack and a Net Place: Users and Uses of Social Network Sites and Blogs for Political Information
Barbara K. Kaye

11. Working the Twittersphere: Microblogging as professional identity construction
Dawn Gilpin

12. Look at us: Collective Narcissism in College Student Facebook Photo Galleries
Andrew L. Mendelson and Zizi Papacharissi

13. Copyright, Fair Use and Social Networks
Patricia Aufderheide

14. Artificial Agents Entering Social Networks
Nikolaos Mavridis

Conclusion: A Networked Self
Zizi Papacharissi

Contributor Bio(s): zi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is author of A Private Sphere. Democracy in the Digital Age and editor of Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas, also published by Routledge.