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

[Andrea Kavanaugh]

hi Ben,
we have an early study of seniors' use of the internet (in those days  
-- early 1990s -- there was a lot of 'social networking' online  
through localized newsgroups and listservs and  access was provided by  
Virginia Tech's Blacksburg Electronic Village project since the  
network was still controlled by NSF) published in:

Casalegno, Federico, 2000, BEV Seniors, In A. Cohill and A. Kavanaugh  
(Eds.), Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia.  
Norwood, MA: Artech House.

let me know if can't get a copy of the book through your library.
Andrea

Andrea Kavanaugh, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Associate Director
Center for Human Computer Interaction
Virginia Tech (0902)
Blacksburg, VA 24060

tel: (540) 231-1806
fax: (540) 231-9218
http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/users/kavan



On Jul 30, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:

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> On 25 Jul 2009, at 16:46, Virpi Ylanne wrote:
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>> 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.
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> there have also been some excellent studies of seniornet:
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> http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=seniornet&hl=en&scoring=r&as_ylo=2004h
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> which pre-dates fb/myspace etc but reveals similar social processes  
> with web 0.5 :-)
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> Ben
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