[Air-l] Message board usage - and a reflection on changing research

Sat Dec 24 13:29:53 PST 2005

It is my impression that if we study each segment separately, we will lose
the gestalt.  My children use multiple means of communication including IM,
Chat, Blogging and -  not so much - Message Boards.

Within this context, I see an entirety of communication happening.

Dr. Timothy Haupt, Psy.D.

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> From: David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk>
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> I've been asked to find out among other things what kinds of Internet
> bulletin boards are most used by young people and what proportion of
> young people visit them. I thought this kind of thing would be fairly
> easy to find out - after all bulletin boards/message boards/usenet
> were among the most studied forms of Internet use in the early days.
> But I am finding it surprisingly difficult to get this information as
> current surveys like the Pew and OxIS ones don't seem to track
> bulletin board use or virtual community participation at all (except
> insofar as it might be included in uses like "seeking sport
> information"). Is it because kids these days are all just using IM
> and writing Xanga blogs or do we only think this because we don't ask
> them about this kind of use any more?
>
> Can anyone help with my statistical questions? And more generally
> does anyone else agree that as we keep chasing each new phenomenon
> (file sharing, IM, blogging, social network software) we risk losing
> track altogether of still extant and important practices (affinity
> group message board or mailing list use for example - or MUD use?) If
> these uses are indeed being displaced by other uses shouldn't we at
> least have a crack at measuring them so we can be sure they are gone
> so we can chart their decline as well as their rise?
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> From: David Brake <d.r.brake at lse.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Air-l] I spoke too soon - some data re message board use
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> I spoke too soon! Some data is available after all. More would be
> welcome however as there still isn't much!
>
> Livingstone, S. M. and M. Bober (2004) "Uk Children Go Online:
> Surveying the Experiences of Young People and Their Parents" ESRC
> London. http://personal.lse.ac.uk/bober/UKCGOsurveyreport.pdf
> reveals that of 12-19 year old regular internet users 17% contributed
> to message boards (doesn't separate out 'lurkers' from 'participants'
> though.
>
> Survey data from Pew's first Teen and Parent survey in 2000 reveals
> 38% of 12-17 year olds go to ?web sites and bulletin boards where
> they can write their opinions about things?. Unfortunately, this
> question disappeared from (what seems to be?) Pew's only other survey
> data with teens in it - in 2004.
>
> And while I think of it here are the other sources I checked
> unsuccessfully (but which other researchers interested in young
> people and Internet use may find handy):
>
> Dutton, W. H., C. di Genarro and A. M. Hargrave (2005) "The Internet
> in Britain: The Oxford Internet Survey (Oxis)" Oxford Internet
> Institute Oxford. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/oxis/
> OxIS_2005_Internet_Survey.pdf
>
> Roberts, D. F., U. G. Foehr and V. M. A. Rideout (2005) "Generation
> M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year Olds" Kaiser Family Foundation
> http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7251.cfm doesn't seem to have anything in
> it.
>
> NetRatings Australia Pty Ltd (2005) "Kidsonline at Home: Internet Use in
> Australian Homes" Sydney. http://www.aba.gov.au/newspubs/internet.shtml
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> David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
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