Felicia Wu Song
Assistant Professor
PhD: 2005, University of Virginia - Sociology
Phone: 225.578.3912
E-mail: fwsong@lsu.edu
Office: 210 Hodges Hall
Biography
Trained as a sociologist, Felicia Song’s research areas intersect new media and technology, culture, consumerism and public life.Her first book, Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together, explores Internet communities and democracy in late-modernity. She is currently working on a project examining the role of “mommy blogs” in shaping contemporary motherhood. She teaches Media Persuasion, Introduction to Mass Media, Mass Communication and Society, and Research Methods.
Selected Publications
Song, Felicia. “Theorizing Web 2.0: A Cultural Perspective.” (2010) Information, Communication and Society. 13:2, 249-275.
Song, Felicia. Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together. (2009). New York: Peter Lang
Publishing.
Song, Felicia. “Social Networking Sites: Mirrors of Contemporary Individualism.” (2008). Culture, Issue 2.1.
Song, Felicia. “Online Communities in a Therapeutic Age,” in Jonathan B. Imber, ed., Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 137-151. (2004). (Original version published in Society, Vol. 39, No. 2 (January - February 2002).
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