Re: [Air-L] research on older people's use of social networking sites

On 25 Jul 2009, at 16:46, Virpi Ylanne wrote:

I wonder if anyone on this site is doing research on older people's (60+ yrs) use of social networking sites (e.g. facebook, myspace), or if you know of any such work.

there have also been some excellent studies of seniornet: http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=seniornet&hl=en&scoring=r&as_ylo=2004h which pre-dates fb/myspace etc but reveals similar social processes with web 0.5 :-) Ben ---- Dr Ben Anderson Sociology @ Essex http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/about/people/staff/anderson.aspx Centre for Research on Economic Sociology and Innovation http://cresi.wordpress.com