I am bemuzzled by the Colorado teen internet survey which Reid Cornwell has shared with us. Here is what he posted: "The Center For Internet Research just completed an online survey. While the results are preliminary the trends are clear and as follows: * Links to the survey form were sent via email to 2000 Colorado teens between 14 and 18 * 1,000 were in rural settings and 1,000 were urban * 1,123 people responded * 610 rural kids responded (insignificant gender differences) * 515 urban kids responded (insignificant gender differences) * All respondents reported that they participated in some sort of real-time chatting * All reported that they did so while doing other tasks (homework etc.) * All reported that they preferred this form of communication rather than telephone * All reported that they spent more time chatting online or emailing than they spent in f2f activities * All reported that they downloaded music at some time * All reported that they share music, links data, and homework with their friends * All reported that they valued technical skills of their peers and it appears that kids who help them keep their devices working had certain status * All reported that they did not perceive a peer to peer negative reaction related to computer use or skills * All reported that kids who did not use these devices were seen as odd or different. (stigma)" /END PREVIOUS POST This apparently is an internet-only population. A few questions: 1. What was the sampling frame? Was it a random sample? 2. What was the response rate? 3. And most importantly, I am immensely impressed that All of the respondents agreed in All of the items mentioned above. Even Brezhnev only had 99% or so voting for him in USSR elections in the 1980s, as I recall. What is it about Colorado teens that they agree with each other so thoroughly? Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________
It sounds like an interesting survey. Adding to what Barry mentioned, I'm wondering what exactly 'insignificant gender differences' are (although, if All respondents answered the same, maybe that's not a tremendously useful variable), and whether ethnicity or socioeconomic class or similar variables were considered in the sample. Do we know when the results will be made public? Joshua Joshua Raclaw Dept of Linguistics University of Colorado Quoting Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>: * I am bemuzzled by the Colorado teen internet survey which Reid Cornwell * has shared with us. * * Here is what he posted: * * "The Center For Internet Research just completed an online survey. While * the * results are preliminary the trends are clear and as follows: * * * Links to the survey form were sent via email to 2000 Colorado * teens * between 14 and 18 * * 1,000 were in rural settings and 1,000 were urban * * 1,123 people responded * * 610 rural kids responded (insignificant gender differences) * * 515 urban kids responded (insignificant gender differences) * * All respondents reported that they participated in some sort of * real-time chatting * * All reported that they did so while doing other tasks (homework * etc.) * * All reported that they preferred this form of communication rather * than telephone * * All reported that they spent more time chatting online or emailing * than they spent in f2f activities * * All reported that they downloaded music at some time * * All reported that they share music, links data, and homework with * their friends * * All reported that they valued technical skills of their peers and * it * appears that kids who help them keep their devices working had certain * status * * All reported that they did not perceive a peer to peer negative * reaction related to computer use or skills * * All reported that kids who did not use these devices were seen as * odd or different. (stigma)" * /END PREVIOUS POST * * This apparently is an internet-only population. * A few questions: * * 1. What was the sampling frame? Was it a random sample? * 2. What was the response rate? * 3. And most importantly, I am immensely impressed that All of the * respondents agreed in All of the items mentioned above. Even Brezhnev * only had 99% or so voting for him in USSR elections in the 1980s, as I * recall. What is it about Colorado teens that they agree with each other so * thoroughly? * * Barry * _____________________________________________________________________ * * Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director * wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman * * Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto * 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 * To network is to live; to live is to network * _____________________________________________________________________ * * * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ *
I'm assuming insignificant gender differences means that it was somewhere between 47.5-52.5% males to females. But some of the results raised a red flag for me. When reporting results such as "All teens did X", this suggests that too vague a question was asked, or that there was some pretty heavy self-selection. I don't want to jump to conclusions on the survey methods right off the bat, but this was an online survey - sent to people's email inbox. It hope that the data wasn't binary (Do you value people who have technical skills yes/no), but rather something a little more neutral: "When I think about which friends are important to me, I consider their skills with a computer" Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. If it was neutral and using an ordinal scale and everyone agreed - then that's awesome. [And it certainly can happen. On my recent survey (with Elder Wellman :P) we asked "How much has the internet affected the following":* Shopping etc... ALL respondents said that the Internet either did not affect or made it easier to manage money, connect with family, to connect with friends, and to meet new people. No one said the internet made it more difficult. As an aside, some did say it made it more difficult to: find health information, learn new things, shop and contact members of the household. ] -- I'm really looking forward to hearing more about the study - makes me feel like I was born 10 years to early - with my savvy online personae and fabulous tech skillz, I could have been the hippest cat on the block. Or not. Anyways. Take Care, BERNiE Bernie Hogan PhD Student NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute Deartment of Sociology University of Toronto *Yes, we should have said "has the internet affected" and not "how much"...but still does not imply an effect not an effect in particular direction. Nevertheless, we retooled said question on a recent survey. I received a message from joshua raclaw at approximately 3/8/06 4:39 PM. Above is my reply.
It sounds like an interesting survey. Adding to what Barry mentioned, I'm wondering what exactly 'insignificant gender differences' are (although, if All respondents answered the same, maybe that's not a tremendously useful variable), and whether ethnicity or socioeconomic class or similar variables were considered in the sample.
Do we know when the results will be made public?
Joshua
Joshua Raclaw Dept of Linguistics University of Colorado
Quoting Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>:
* I am bemuzzled by the Colorado teen internet survey which Reid Cornwell * has shared with us. * * Here is what he posted: * * "The Center For Internet Research just completed an online survey. While * the * results are preliminary the trends are clear and as follows: * * * Links to the survey form were sent via email to 2000 Colorado * teens * between 14 and 18 * * 1,000 were in rural settings and 1,000 were urban * * 1,123 people responded * * 610 rural kids responded (insignificant gender differences) * * 515 urban kids responded (insignificant gender differences) * * All respondents reported that they participated in some sort of * real-time chatting * * All reported that they did so while doing other tasks (homework * etc.) * * All reported that they preferred this form of communication rather * than telephone * * All reported that they spent more time chatting online or emailing * than they spent in f2f activities * * All reported that they downloaded music at some time * * All reported that they share music, links data, and homework with * their friends * * All reported that they valued technical skills of their peers and * it * appears that kids who help them keep their devices working had certain * status * * All reported that they did not perceive a peer to peer negative * reaction related to computer use or skills * * All reported that kids who did not use these devices were seen as * odd or different. (stigma)" * /END PREVIOUS POST * * This apparently is an internet-only population. * A few questions: * * 1. What was the sampling frame? Was it a random sample? * 2. What was the response rate? * 3. And most importantly, I am immensely impressed that All of the * respondents agreed in All of the items mentioned above. Even Brezhnev * only had 99% or so voting for him in USSR elections in the 1980s, as I * recall. What is it about Colorado teens that they agree with each other so * thoroughly? * * Barry * _____________________________________________________________________ * * Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director * wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman * * Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto * 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 * To network is to live; to live is to network * _____________________________________________________________________ * * * _______________________________________________ * The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list * is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org * Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: * http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org * * Join the Association of Internet Researchers: * http://www.aoir.org/ * _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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On 3/8/06 7:04 PM, "Bernie Hogan" <bernie.hogan@utoronto.ca> wrote:
ALL respondents said that the Internet either did not affect or made it easier to manage money, connect with family, to connect with friends, and to meet new people. No one said the internet made it more difficult.
About the failure to find "stigma" or "Internet effects", I really wonder about the ideological/discursive/cultural repertoires <or what Bourdieu called, habitus> that produce these kinds of "findings". Mazzarella's argues that "the cultural politics of globalization, inside and outside the academy, involve a contradictory relation to mediation, on the one hand foregrounding the mediated quality of our lives and on the other hand strenuously disavowing it" (p. 345/2004/33/Annual Review of Anthropology). I think that many of the people we interview, or survey, are caught up in exactly this relation of intense suturing and simultaneous disavowal with media. After all, they are the folks buying up every Ipod in sight with jackets to match, marketed by Apple with the slogan that "Life is random". Not quite. Mary PS>> For a very serious engagement with critiques of "academic jargon", the following is an excellent article - Lather, P. (1996). Troubling Clarity: The Politics of Accessible Language. Harvard Educational Review, 66(3). --------------- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, ECPS, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Online Hyperlinked CV: http://educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/cv.html Research Profile http://www.ecps.educ.ubc.ca/research/mbryson.htm
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