Hi list, Frank Schaap wrote:
There could be a nice paper here about "nomadic" use of the net by students, who use the net mostly in computer rooms and at their parents place. ... They're pretty much putting it to practical use: interacting with the school/university website, searching/surfing a bit for information and entertainment, joining the odd forum, e-mailing, and chatting with
Your observations are strongly supported by a study on Belgian youth conducted by my colleague Maren Hartmann. She found both - the nomadic aspect and the focus on content - being crucial determinants of their use of ICTs. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EMTEL/reports/hartmann_2003_emtel.pdf best, thomas -- Thomas Berker, NTNU, KULT 7492 Trondheim, Norway