[Air-L] research on older people's use of social networkingsites

[Paul M.A. Baker]

I need to clarify that I ask, even though, at 53,  I am close to  
falling into the category of "senior" (dramatic sigh) ...
The adoption of ICT technologies seems to be especially patchy as the  
age factor increases.

Paul
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Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., Director of Research
Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP)
Georgia Institute of Technology
500 10th St. NW #312
Atlanta, GA 30332 404.385.4618 [paul.baker at cacp.gatech.edu]
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On Jul 25, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Lund Niels Windfeld wrote:

> well, I don't know of any works on that, but belonging to the group of
> "old people", I can tell from my own experience, that a lot of
> grandparents are using facebook to connect to children and  
> grandchildren
> and especially blogs are extremely popular among "old" people  
> ( perhaps
> with an upper limit around 80 years = my parents generation, but  
> there are
> also active blogging over 80!) connecting all kinds of people, but  of
> course, sure, it would be interesting to have studies of how my
> generation, people born in 1940ties/early 50ties are doing on the net,
> probably very active indeed, so I think one has to reconsider the
> impression of people in their 60ties and above are not online.
>
> Niels W. Lund
> professor, documentation studies
> University of Tromsø
> Norway
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Paul M.A. Baker
> Sent: Sat 7/25/2009 6:10 PM
> To: Virpi Ylanne
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on older people's use of social
> networkingsites
>
> I am likewise curious, as we are interested in the use of social
> networking by people with disabilities, who can, in some cases share
> similar characteristics of limitation.
>
>
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>  Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., Director of Research
>  Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP)
>  Georgia Institute of Technology
>  500 10th St. NW #312
>  Atlanta, GA 30332 404.385.4618 [paul.baker at cacp.gatech.edu]
>  www.cacp.gatech.edu / www.wirelessrerc.org
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>
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Virpi Ylanne wrote:
>
>> I wonder if anyone on this site is doing research on older people's
>> (60+ yrs) use of social networking sites (e.g. facebook, myspace),
>> or if you know of any such work.  If so, I'd like to hear from you.
>>
>> with best wishes,
>>
>> Dr Virpi Ylanne
>> Centre for Language and Communication
>> Cardiff University,
>> Wales, UK
>> ylanne at cf.ac.uk
>>
>>
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