I'd like to add a few more references on social support and the use of technology. The first two show how support from other online learners helps distance students cope. The second two take look at how those who mix work or school and home, and explore some of what other kinds of pressures exist with bringing online work into the home. /Caroline Caroline Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Jennifer Robins & Susan Shoemaker Community Development Among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions, JCMC 6(1) http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol6/issue1/haythornthwaite.html Kazmer, M.M. (2000). Coping in a distance environment: Sitcoms, chocolate cake, and dinner with a friend. First Monday, 5(9). http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_9/kazmer/index.html Kazmer, M.M. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2001). Juggling multiple social worlds: Distance students on and offline. American Behavioral Scientist, 45(3), 510-529. [Slightly different take on this but along the same lines to appear in B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in everday life. Oxford, UK: Blackwells.] Janet Salaff, Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work to appear in B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in everday life. Oxford, UK: Blackwells.] At 12:01 PM 2/20/02 -0500, you wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:21:28 -0500 (EST) From: Eszter Hargittai <eszter@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] references on gender, age, support & info tech use Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

Hi,

A few weeks ago I asked for references to work on gender, age and the importance of social support in the use of information technologies. Here's a list of materials to which people (from this and some other lists) pointed me and additional pieces I found while doing more research on the topic. Thanks to all those who sent me suggestions!

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---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Coordinator, Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 Faculty home page: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/people/faculty/haythorn.html Personal home page: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/