New survey: Young people’s experiences on social network sites February 12, 2008
Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in PhD Data, Safer Internet Day, Social network sites, Survey, Youth.1 comment so far
Today is Safer Internet Day 2008. In that connection the Danish Media Council and I launch some of the results from our online survey about Danish children and young people’s use of social network sites. See more about the survey here.
Download press release.
Download fact sheet with central findings.
Unfortunately, the documents are in Danish, but I promise to blog about the central findings in English when I have more time. Now I have to get ready for the Safer Internet Day event in the Experimentarium in Copenhagen.
Brainstorm: Social network site categories January 8, 2008
Posted by Malene Charlotte Larsen in Brainstorm, Social Networking, Social network sites.16 comments
As my first blog post in 2008 I hereby invite all the readers of “My PhD Blog” to participate in a little post-holiday exercise :-D.
It is a brainstorm on all the different categories of social network sites that exist at the moment. I will start by listing the categories I can think of - with exemplary sites. Please feel free to add more. And feel free to correct me if you think that some of my categories, or examples used, are off.
I am aware that some of the sites I mention will fall into more than one category. Many of the sites are - because of my research interests - Danish, but I would like to know about international examples as well.
Social network site categories
- Youth - e.g. Arto, NationX, SKUM, LunarStorm, Bebo
- Friendship - e.g. Facebook, Friendster
- Games/fun - e.g. Habbo Hotel, Netstationen
- Business/CV - e.g. LinkedIn
- Music - e.g. LastFM, MySpace, myvoice
- Video/entertainment - e.g. YouTube, Vix.dk
- Photos - e.g. Flickr
- Pets - e.g. Catster, Dogster
- Religion - e.g. MyChurch, GodTube
- Academic/professional - e.g. KForum
- Political - e.g. Radikale.net
- Libraries - e.g. Vores Bibliotek
- Discussion - e.g. Mingler
- Death - e.g. Mindet.dk
- Enemies/hate - e.g. Enemybook, Hatebook, IFHY (I Fucking Hate You)
- Anti-social - e.g. isolatr, NoSo, Snubster
- School - e.g. HG Space, Ekademia
- Design - e.g. Threadless, NotABrand
- Children - e.g. GoSupermodel
- Blogging - e.g. Blog.dk
- Sleep and wake up - e.g. Sleep.Fm
Those were the different categories I could think of. There must be several others 
(I know that some of the sites I used as examples would perhaps not fall under the definition of a social network site - that depends on the definition…)
