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@aoir.org> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-owner@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-owner@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Susannah Stern Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:29 PM To: air-l@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@bc.edu fax: 617-552-2286
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Katerina Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:22 AM To: air-l@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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