FW: [Air-l] personal homepages

[Magdalena Bober]

I found message boards quite useful in my study of
young people's personal homepages - members with a
homepage will usually put a link in their personal
profile or signature. If you're researching a specific
type of homepage, say fan pages, that type of message
board should be a good source.

Good luck, 

Magdalena



--- Charlie Breindahl <charlie at aoir.org> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-owner at aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-owner at aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> Susannah Stern
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Cc: 'Katerina'
> Subject: RE: [Air-l] personal homepages
> 
> 
> Dionysis - Many services offer indexes of personal
> home pages - Geocities,
> Yahoo, About.com, Angelfire,
> http://www.bltg.com/people/ .
> I imagine you will run into the same problems with
> each in that there is no
> way to guarantee that they are comprehensive,
> representative, or that links
> are active.  Network sampling might be more useful
> depending on the goals of
> your study, or web rings may provide a point of
> access (web rings link home
> pages to one another based on some theme or topic,
> typically).
>             I've written a bit about personal home
> pages and have run up
> against some of the same issues in sampling and
> locating home pages; I
> discuss some of these issues in my articles. Feel
> free to check out:
> 
> Stern, S. (accepted).  Expressions of identity
> online: Prominent features
> and gender differences in adolescents' WWW home
> pages.  Journal of
> Broadcasting & Electronic Media.  (I can forward you
> a copy since this is
> not yet in print, if you like).
> 
> Stern, S.  (2002). Virtually speaking: Girls'
> self-disclosure on the WWW.
> Women's Studies in Communication, 25(2), 223-253.
> 
> Stern, S.  (2002).  Sexual selves on the World Wide
> Web: Adolescent girls'
> homepages as sites for sexual self-expression.  In
> J. Brown, J. Steele, & K.
> Walsh-Childers (Eds.) Sexual Teens/Sexual Media:
> Investigating Media's
> Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (pp. 265-286). 
> NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum &
> Associates.
> 
> Stern, S. (1999).  Adolescent girls' expression on
> WWW home pages: A
> qualitative analysis.  Convergence: The Journal of
> Research into New Media
> Technologies, 5(4), 22-41.
> 
> Good luck,
> Susannah
> 
> Susannah Stern, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Communication Department
> 140 Commonwealth Avenue
> Boston College
> Chestnut Hill, MA 02446
> phone: 617-552-6015
> email: sternsu at bc.edu
> fax: 617-552-2286
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-admin at aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> Katerina
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:22 AM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] personal homepages
> 
> I am conducting a research project on the
> presentation of the Self and
> identity in personal homepages. I have already
> conducted 10 online
> interviews with individuals who own personal
> homepages, in which they
> present aspects of their pesonal identity. However,
> during the last months I
> have not been able to locate more homepages or the
> ones I have located seem
> to have not been updated for years. I was wondering
> if anyone could direct
> me to 'where' I can find more personal homepages
> (apart from the search
> function in yahoo, etc which seems to yield no valid
> findings). 
> Thank you very much for your time, 
> Dionysis Panos 
> 
> 
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