Chapter 1: Navigating Networks
Chapter 2: Communication Competence
Chapter 3: Identity and Impression Management
Chapter 4: Privacy Management in Collapsed Contexts
Chapter 5: Online Friendship Formation
Chapter 6: Where Online Relationships Are Formed
Chapter 7: Maintaining Network Connections
Chapter 8: Online Social Support
Chapter 9: Virtual Cosmopolitanism in a Networked Society, by
Miriam Sobre-Denton
Chapter 10: Always On, Always In the Network: The Influence of
Mobile
Chapter 11: Waypoints
Bree McEwan is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Western Illinois University
In Navigating New Media Networks, Bree McEwan provides an overview
of communication technology research that is remarkably thorough
yet accessible. By placing social networks and communication
competence at the center of discussion, she integrates diverse
lines of inquiry into a cohesive picture of the challenges and
opportunities of mediated communication.
*Andrew Ledbetter, Texas Christian University*
Rather than rely on either the moral panic or unbridled enthusiasm
that seem so common in the discussion of communication
technologies, McEwan focuses on navigating technologies
competently. By drawing upon basic human communication processes,
McEwan helps us all understand how we can be in the driver’s seat
given the tools available to us. A book that all students
interested in knowing more about communication and technology — and
we are all students when it comes to communication technology —
should read!
*David Westerman, North Dakota State University*
McEwan’s book is unparalleled in its coverage of the role of
communication technologies in modern relationships. It seamlessly
weaves together a broad body of research and theory drawn from
multiple fields in a concise and lucid text. It’s refreshing to
read a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries to provide a
comprehensive picture of how our social worlds are no longer
divided by what is ‘online’ and what is ‘offline.’
*Jesse Fox, Ohio State University*
Released in the 'Studies in New Media' series, this volume is
described by the publisher as introducing 'several challenges
related to mediated interpersonal communication including identity
performance, privacy management, relationship formation, relational
maintenance, social support'—specifically, networking. The question
at stake: Will individuals need network connections in order to
thrive in the modern world? . . . McEwan summarizes networking
technologies and their social significance. The crux of the
discussion is the move from social groups toward a society based on
networked individualism. Taking observations from current
scholarship, she seeks to clarify identity types such as the
'crystallized self,' the hyperpersonal self, and the idealized
self-image. In so doing she emphasizes competencies for searchable
and shareable communication on networks using micro blogging;
mass-personal, many-to-many methods; mediated messages; and the
established-identity model. McEwan also includes the dark side of
the issue—flaming, lurking, and trolling (including RIP trolling).
. . ..This volume joins Beyond New Media, by Art Herbig, Andrew
Herrmann, and Adam Tyman (CH, May'15, 52-4595), published in the
same series. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates; graduate students; professionals.
*CHOICE*
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