Greetings, Unfortunately, I have have come across very little literature on older adults and social media specifically, but here are a few resources that I have found to be useful: Lenhart, A. (2009). Adults and social network websites. Washington, DC: Pew Internet and American Life Project. Available at http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Adults-and-Social-Network-Websites.a.... Ofcom. (2008). Social Networking: A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use. Available at http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/media-literacy/medlitp... Pfeil, U., Arjan, R., and Zaphiris, P. (2009). Age differences in online social networking - A study of user profiles and the social capital divide among teenagers and older users in MySpace. Computers in Human Behavior, 25, 643-654. Wilson, M. & Nicholas, C. (2008). Topological Analysis of an Online Social Network for Older Adults. Proceedings of SSM '08, Napa Valley, CA. New York: ACM. I would be very interested in hearing of other literature related to this topic! Kindest regards, Kelly -- Kelly Quinn Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor, Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago 1153 Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St., MC 132 Chicago, IL 60607-7137 (312) 996-3187 ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
From: Maria Chiara Pettenati <pettenati.mariachiara@gmail.com> Date: December 1, 2010 9:29:48 AM CST To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] social media for elderly people
Hi, We have just started an EU project AAL project named SomedAll ( http://somedall.vtt.fi/). We are starting by surveying the state of the art in the domain. I would be very thankful if someone could suggest us relevant resources in the domain of **social media/network usage for elderly people**.
Thanks a lot,
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