[Air-L] Facebook and people in their thirties

[Jessica Vitak]

Hi Feona,

Myself and some fellow researchers at Michigan State (
https://www.msu.edu/~nellison/TOIL) have conducted two studies of adult
Facebook users over the last year and a half. Last year we did a qualitative
(interview) study of adult users ages 25-55 and had three papers come out of
it, one which is currently being reworked for a journal and two which have
been published in proceedings.

We also just wrapped up a second study of university staff users (so mainly
adults in the same age range) that included a survey and lab session. We've
recently submitted our first paper to  a conference and are working on
others.

As we've done research with adults, we've done a fair amount of searching
for other researchers using adult populations and not found much. Pew
Internet makes their datasets publicly available so you could always do a
reanalysis of one of their many datasets (or simply read their reports).
Also, Moira Burke has done some solid research using surveys and
server-level data of adult Facebook users (not limited to 30-somethings).

Cites for our papers:


   - Wohn, D. Y., Lampe, C., Vitak, J., & Ellison, N. (2011). Coordinating
   the ordinary: Social information uses of Facebook by adults. In *Proceedings
   of the 6th Annual iConference*. New York: ACM.
   - Wohn, D. Y., Lampe, C., Ellison, N., Wash, R., & Vitak, J*.* (2011). The
   “S” in social network games: Initiating, maintaining, and enhancing
   relationships. In *Proceedings of the 44th **Annual Hawaii International
   Conference on System Sciences* (CD-ROM). Computer Society Press.
   - Vitak, J., & Ellison, N. (2010, November). “There's a network out there
   you might as well tap”: Social support and information-sharing on Facebook
   by adult users. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Conference of the
   National Communication Association, San Francisco. (This one is being redone
   for a journal.)


Jessica


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Jessica Vitak
Doctoral Student
Media and Information Studies
409 Communication Arts & Sciences Bldg.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824



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> Can anyone suggest any studies that have been done of the way that people
> in their thirties engage with Facebook, and specifically how this has
> impacted on the way they think about and manage their personal
> relationships?
> I am particularly interested in the ways in which people?s views of
> intimacy, community and communication might have shifted since their use
> of Facebook and how they compare their pre-Facebook and post-Facebookexperiences.
> Thanks, Feona
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> .......
> Feona Attwood
> http://feonaattwood.com/
> http://onscenity.org/
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