Sparked in part by the increasing enthusiasm of academics for the possibilities of Facebook and online learning, as well as the ready embrace of the use of this system by students in Internet Studies, I have begun thinking of Facebook as a site for analysis of the relationship between students and academics in society. The results, entitled provisionally, ‘An Education “in” Facebook’, are presented here.
(This paper was given in modified form at the recent RMIT Learning Expo 2012 and my thanks to Professor Geoff Crisp and RMIT for the invitation to speak at this event)
