I need to clarify that I ask, even though, at 53, I am close to falling into the category of "senior" (dramatic sigh) ... The adoption of ICT technologies seems to be especially patchy as the age factor increases. Paul -||- Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., Director of Research Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) Georgia Institute of Technology 500 10th St. NW #312 Atlanta, GA 30332 404.385.4618 [paul.baker@cacp.gatech.edu] www.cacp.gatech.edu / www.wirelessrerc.org -||- On Jul 25, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Lund Niels Windfeld wrote:

well, I don't know of any works on that, but belonging to the group of "old people", I can tell from my own experience, that a lot of grandparents are using facebook to connect to children and grandchildren and especially blogs are extremely popular among "old" people ( perhaps with an upper limit around 80 years = my parents generation, but there are also active blogging over 80!) connecting all kinds of people, but of course, sure, it would be interesting to have studies of how my generation, people born in 1940ties/early 50ties are doing on the net, probably very active indeed, so I think one has to reconsider the impression of people in their 60ties and above are not online.

Niels W. Lund professor, documentation studies University of Tromsø Norway

-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Paul M.A. Baker Sent: Sat 7/25/2009 6:10 PM To: Virpi Ylanne Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] research on older people's use of social networkingsites

I am likewise curious, as we are interested in the use of social networking by people with disabilities, who can, in some cases share similar characteristics of limitation.

-||- Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., Director of Research Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) Georgia Institute of Technology 500 10th St. NW #312 Atlanta, GA 30332 404.385.4618 [paul.baker@cacp.gatech.edu] www.cacp.gatech.edu / www.wirelessrerc.org -||-

On Jul 25, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Virpi Ylanne wrote:

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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. If so, I'd like to hear from you.

with best wishes,

Dr Virpi Ylanne Centre for Language and Communication Cardiff University, Wales, UK ylanne@cf.ac.uk

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