[Air-l] teens and myspace

[Wainer Lusoli]

Don't want to play the killjoy here, but aren't our answers related to
[and dependent on]:

- age [teen is broad]
- technological proximity [demand] and design [offer]
- gender [relatively self-explanatory]
- size and nature of existing social networks [directly related to
Andrea's point]
- topic and nature of discussion [soap talk vs. sport talk vs. me talk]
- class [oh, yes, kids form different classes use and think of the
Internet, and other ICTs, in different ways]

La differance?

Cheers

Wainer

PS My bongo-bongo students seem pretty uncomfortable with online chats,
but well into other electronic mediations [but hey, this is CH1 Britain]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org 
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Kavanaugh
> Sent: 28 February 2006 15:24
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] teens and myspace
> 
> 
> I think kids are comfortable because they are generally more likely 
> to be writing to people they know from face-to-face relationships 
> than are adults.
> 
> At 10:10 AM 2/28/2006, you wrote:
> >I have a question for those of you working with youth culture,
> >particularly but not just around MySpace.
> >
> >I have been interested recently by what I perceive as a gap between
> >the ways in which most of us *use* the internet socially (ie, often
> >without big issues about it) and the way we *think* about using the
> >internet socially (ie, a poor substitute for more meaningful
> >face-to-face interaction). Recently a number of adults have said to
> >me that this gap between action and perception, which they
> >acknowledge in themselves, is completely gone with teens, what with
> >myspace and all.
> >
> >My question is whether youth really perceive their online
> >communication to be completely non-problematic compared to
> >face-to-face communication, or if even amongst teens there is a sense
> >that it might be a little pathetic or embarrassing to use the
> >internet socially (even amongst those who do). Is the stigma around
> >online socializing really completely gone for youth? Of course,
> >adults always perceive kids as way better and more comfortable with
> >the net than they are, which makes me wonder if this sense that kids
> >have no sense of stigma is adult perception vs youth reality.
> >
> >Thanks for your thoughts,
> >Nancy
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