Defriended

Defriended
Author: Ruth Baron
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545469554

Be careful who you friend... Jason has met the perfect girl. OK, so maybe he hasn't actually MET Lacey yet, but they talk online all the time. Yet despite spending most nights chatting, Lacey refuses to meet up in person. Suspicious, Jason starts googling, and his cyberstalking leads to a shocking discovery: According to multiple newspapers, Lacey died a year earlier. Soon, Jason finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing mystery. Has he found a way to iChat with the dead? Or is someone playing a dangerous trick? Either way, Jason has to discover the truth before it's too late. You can't put up away messages from beyond the grave. . .

Best Friends for Never

Best Friends for Never
Author: Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545561523

When a friendship pact goes magically awry, eleven-year-old Hattie must figure out how to make amends. After Hattie and her three best friends watch one of their classmates publicly defriended in the school cafeteria, they make a loyalty pact promising never to mistreat each other. But after Hattie unwittingly breaks the pact, her friends begin ignoring her. In fact, they literally don't even know who she is anymore! Can Hattie figure out how to break the spell and make things right again?Acclaimed author Adrienne Vrettos brings poignancy and gentle humor to this magical story of friendship and loyalty.

Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling

Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling
Author: Bishop, Jonathan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466628049

Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling provides current research on the technical approaches as well as more social and behavioral involvements for gaining a better understanding of internet trolling. This book is useful to researchers, students and practitioners interested in building a share meaning for online community users.

Social Media Data Extraction and Content Analysis

Social Media Data Extraction and Content Analysis
Author: Hai-Jew, Shalin
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1522506497

In today’s society, the utilization of social media platforms has become an abundant forum for individuals to post, share, tag, and, in some cases, overshare information about their daily lives. As significant amounts of data flood these venues, it has become necessary to find ways to collect and evaluate this information. Social Media Data Extraction and Content Analysis explores various social networking platforms and the technologies being utilized to gather and analyze information being posted to these venues. Highlighting emergent research, analytical techniques, and best practices in data extraction in global electronic culture, this publication is an essential reference source for researchers, academics, and professionals.

Winding Up Strangers in Bars

Winding Up Strangers in Bars
Author: Barf Loko
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0578196123

This debut novel from Barf Loko is your guided tour through the demimonde of Foster Revelle, a misanthropic assassin who is awful at his job.

Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories

Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories
Author: Li, Honglei
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2012-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466603135

"This book gives in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation,covering the concept of virtual community participation, followed by several streams of virtual community participation theories"--Provided by publishe

Followers

Followers
Author: Anna Davies
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545584388

To tweet, or not to tweet . . . what a deadly question. When Jenna loses out on a starring role in the school's production of Hamlet, she reluctantly agrees to be the drama department's "social media director" and starts tweeting half-hearted updates. She barely has any followers, so when someone hacks her twitter account, Jenna can't muster the energy to stop it. After all, tweets like "Something's rotten in the state of Denmark . . . and a body's rotting in the theater" are obviously a joke. But then a body IS discovered in the theater: Jenna's rival. Suddenly, what seemed like a prank turns deadly serious. To everyone's horror, the grisly tweets continue . . . and the body count starts to rise. There's no other explanation; someone is live-tweeting murders on campus.With the school in chaos and the police unable to find the culprit, it's up to Jenna to unmask the psycho-tweeter before the carnage reaches Shakespearian proportions . . . or she becomes the next victim.

Gamification for Human Factors Integration: Social, Education, and Psychological Issues

Gamification for Human Factors Integration: Social, Education, and Psychological Issues
Author: Bishop, Jonathan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466650729

With the popularity and ease-of-access to internet technologies, especially social networking, a number of human-centered issues has developed including internet addiction and cyber bullying. In an effort to encourage positive behavior, it is believed that applying gaming principles to non-gaming environments through gamification can assist in improving human interaction online. Gamification for Human Factors Integration: Social, Educational, and Psychological Issues presents information and best practices for promoting positive behavior online through gamification applications in social, educational, and psychological contexts. Through up-to-date research and practical applications, educators, academicians, information technology professionals, and psychologists will gain valuable insight into human-internet interaction and a possible solution for improving the relationship between society and technology.

Identity Theft

Identity Theft
Author: Anna Davies
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 054557658X

Hayley is going to have the best year ever. After years of careful planning, she's ready to serve as student council president AND editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Ivy League, here she comes! However, just before student council elections, someone creates a fake facebook profile for Hayley and starts posting inappropriate photos and incriminating updates. It must be the work of a highly skilled Photoshopper, but the attention to detail is scary. The embarrassing photos of "Hayley" in her bathing suit reveal a birthmark on her back--a birth mark Hayley has never shown in public. . . . The situation escalates until Hayley's mother reveals some shocking information. Hayley isn't an only child: She has a twin sister who was adopted by a different family. And that's not all. Soon, Hayley discovers that her long-lost sister isn't just playing a prank--she's plotting to take over Hayley's life . . . by any means necessary.

Motherhood Comes Naturally (and Other Vicious Lies)

Motherhood Comes Naturally (and Other Vicious Lies)
Author: Jill Smokler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1476728380

From the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of a Scary Mommy and the wildly popular blog ScaryMommy.com, a hilarious new essay collection that exposes the “vicious lies” that every parent is told. Newly pregnant and scared out of her mind, Jill Smokler lay on her gynecologist’s examination table and was told the biggest lie she’d ever heard in her life: “Motherhood is the most natural thing in the world.” Instead of quelling her nerves like that well intentioned nurse hoped to, Jill was instead set up for future of questioning exactly what DNA strand she was missing that made the whole motherhood experience feel less than natural to her. Wonderful? Yes. Miraculous? Of course. Worthwhile? Without a doubt. But natural? Not so much. Jill’s first memoir, the New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Scary Mommy, rocketed to national fame with its down and dirty details about life with her three precious bundles of joy. Now Jill returns with all-new essays debunking more than twenty pervasive myths about motherhood. She’s here to give you what few others will dare: The truth.