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Cool article about social networking, including why some adults worry about it. Understandable and interesting. Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Adults often worry about the amount of time that youth spend online, arguing that the digital does not replace the physical. Most teens would agree. It is not the technology that encourages youth to spend time online - it's the lack of mobility and access to youth space where they can hang out uninterrupted.

Good links to various aRTICLES RE CONTROVERSIES over use of social networking in and out of schools; links to some of the new tools online. Good resource for both students and teachers. GOOD TO SHARE W/TEACHERS AFRIAD OF NEW MEDIA AND WEB 2.0.

Good links.

Abstract / Not all Facebook users appreciated the September 2006 launch of the 'News Feeds' feature. Concerned about privacy implications, thousands of users vocalized their discontent through the site itself, forcing the company to implement privacy tools. This essay examines the privacy concerns voiced following these events. Because the data made easily visible were already accessible with effort, what disturbed people was primarily the sense of exposure and invasion. In essence, the 'privacy trainwreck' that people experienced was the cost of social convergence. Key Words / convergence / exposure / Facebook / invasion / privacy / social network sites

This is a page that has a number of articles, but only a few of them talk about Digital Culture and Learning. Around the middle there is an article that fully talks about this topic.