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The ban of Facebook and Twitter just served to strenghthen Chinese run social networks. One of which has "borrowed" the interface of Facebook. This article talks about a few of the popular Chinese social networking sites.

Great diagram about social media in China - a reminder that the international landscape is much more broad than just Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn!

By now, we've all heard the concerns about social media in the K-12 setting. The fears of teachers revealing their personal lives of Facebook. The worry of what can be accessed and posted on YouTube, revealing the good, bad, and ugly of the 21st century classroom. Even ongoing tweets about both policy and practice in the classroom or the central office. The concern has grown so significant that many school districts have policies banning the use of social media, even erecting firewalls to ban access to sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter with LEA computers or through LEA-based Internet connections.

Despite Staples' libertarian attitude towards availability of print materials, many websites remain off-limits to students operating on the Staples network. These sites range from social networking sites such as Facebook to pornographic content.

The mainstream media loves to report on sexting, cyberbullying, inappropriate relationships, and other social media pitfalls that frighten parents and send school administrators running scared. These fears cause schools to maintain their years-old internet polices: Block social media sites. No one gets hurt. But innovative teachers across the country, when allowed, have embraced social media applications like Twitter and Facebook. They're using them to communicate with their students, to share relevant news, and to ask and answer questions. They're using them to connect students to resources around the world and create authentic global classrooms. And they're using them to move beyond the typical classroom website where " ... the missing piece of the design is the lack of interaction for the user. Facebook forces interaction and active learning."

"China has been a notoriously difficult market to crack for overseas Web companies. Google, eBay and Yahoo, not to mention social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, have all struggled there, because of strong domestic competition as well as government blocking and censorship. But in its push into China, Softbank has avoided many of these headaches by focusing on e-commerce, local social networking sites and online games - sidestepping the difficulties of government censorship."

This article makes me wonder whether Softbank can bring new media and social networking, broadband Internet, etc. to China and allow China to continue it's censorship practices... IV

great story about the evolution of Facebook, its impact and future. should consider including in project as the story itself is another example of old media (radio) and new media (streaming)

good overview of how social media can be used. also there is a good cartoon we could include on our web site (under Vivana's section?)

Melanie/ Mary- "This comes as a surprise as the country's censorship has been such a topic of contention. Nevertheless, the study estimates that up to 92% of Chinese netizens use social media, meanwhile, only 76% of US netizens do the same."

Ogden School District may be one of the next districts to propose a policy that would ban students and teachers from connecting on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Granite School District officials already proposed a similar policy in hopes of preventing inappropriate relationships between students and teachers or other faculty members.

To use social media or not to use social media… that is the question facing many school districts across the country. *Should video sharing sites like YouTube be used in the classroom? *Should teachers use FaceBook or Twitter to communicate with their students during class and outside of the classroom? *How can sites like this improve how we educate our students?

While Facebook and MySpace are popular among students in Anderson County, you're not likely to see many teachers on the social networking sites. At least three school districts in Anderson County discourage teachers from having social networking sites at all. In Williamston-based Anderson School District 1, teachers are "strongly discouraged" from having social networking accounts, said Jane Harrison, spokeswoman for the district.

discusses general state of social media in Turkey and the challenges that face it's use in general as well as in political communication

Social networking outside of the educational context is huge. Facebook is the 3rd most popular site in Turkey.