Moral Spaces in MySpace: Preservice Teachersy Perspectives about Ethical Issues in Social Neteorking

MySpace and Facebook are innovative digital communication tools that surpass traditional means of social interaction. However, in some instances in which educators have zrsed these tools, public reactions to them have resulted in sanctions. With the notion that t. dditional ideas of privacy and teacher conduct are not yet dejned in online worlds, the reseamhers developed a case-based reasoning intervention to support more informed decisions by preservice teachers. The case-based coursework led students to perceive a need for more dejnitive guidelines about their participation in social networking spaces. The findings have professional development implicationsfor educators and educational institutions that wish to harness the positive potential of social networking tools without risking professional status.