Additional Resources

If you would like to learn more, we have included some additional resources that may interest you:

An expansive list of Social Networking Sites and Virtual Communties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

A good description of virtual communties:

http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitywhatwhy.htm

Futurologist Patrick Dixon discussing the future of online interaction and virtual communities in particular:

Nielson Report on Social Networking’s New global Footprint :

Click to access Global_Faces_and_Networked_Places-A_Nielsen_Report_on_Social_Networkings_New_Global_Footprint.pdf

Guardian.co.uk – Second Life Divorce:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/13/second-life-divorce

Virtual Vixens – Breaking up your marriage online!:

Forrester Technographics Media and Marketing Study – How Are Young People Using Media?:

Lecture Slide Eleven:

https://www2.webvista.umn.edu/webct/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct

The New York Times – Facebook Exodus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=facebook%20exodus&st=cse

CNN – Children’s Brains and Social Networking:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/02/kids.social.networks/index.html

Dailymail.co.uk – Children and Social Networking:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html

Club Penguin:

Clubpenguin.com

Digital World: Kids Today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fu4vmiXxwc

Wikipedia – Club Penguin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_penguin