Well it seems that Chris Avenir has certainly got his moment in the lime light as he as won his case (GN). In the end he got zero on the assignments, but the other students were not similarly punished. Through the process, instructors have said that he should be kicked out. Students are saying (and perhaps rightly) that there is nothing really different between what happened in Facebook as opposed to what happens all the time in halls, rooms and over any other place – online or not – where students meet and talk. If academia has found ways to ignore Facebook and social networking in the past, they certainly can’t anymore.
At the U of A, many of the groups are actually run by the library and those that are run by students are largely empty of content, used more for students to contact each other without becoming friends.
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