The 2024 “Living Edition” of Humans R Social Media has been released!
Diana Daly and iVoices Media Lab
You may be interested in the latest edition of Humans R Social Media, the free/open-access textbook produced by iVoices Media Lab with University of Arizona students and led by Diana Daly. This “living book” edition of this OER about social media features student stories, rich visual content, assessment activities, and a new cover created by Jacquie Kuru in collaboration with AI.
Book description
Social media and humans exist in a world of mutual influence, and humans play central roles in how this influence is mediated and transferred. Originally created by University of Arizona Information scholar Diana Daly, this 2024 “living book” edition of Humans R Social Media welcomes additional authors and features contributions by students to help readers understand how we as humans shape social media, and how social media shapes our world in turn.
A growing community of authors
Using a grant from the state of Colorado, we have worked over the past year to develop a collaborative governance model for this free textbook, with the goal of building a community of adopters who can also help keep it up to date, given the rapidly changing topic. The new edition includes an invitation to participate in co-creating the future of the project. This work has been done with Nathan Schneider at CU Boulder, who has piloted the community adoption model and contributed a new chapter on “Regulation.”
Please consider exploring the new edition here.
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