Research
PhD Project
Understanding Youth and Online Social Networking
- Project period: January 1, 2007 to Debember 31, 2009.
- Supervisor: Associate Professor Pirkko Raudaskoski, Aalborg University
- Co-supervisor: Professor Birgitte Holm Sørensen, The Danish University of Education
In my PhD project I am studying how Danish youngsters use social network sites as part of their everyday life. I am especially interested in the dissolution of online vs. offline, which characterises the way social network sites are used by youth. As several studies on online social networking have shown, users do not distinguish between online and offline. The digital space should not be seen as a replacement, but rather a continuation of the physical space, which primarily supports pre-existing social relations or offline friends. Therefore, a division between ‘online’ and ‘offline’ should not be made when studying online social networking and youth.
Based on this position, I am studying the online experiences of Danish youngsters between the age of 12 and 18 years old in order to understand what online social networking means to them and how social network sites are integrated as part of everyday life and how everyday life is represented and mediated in the digital space.
PhD Courses
- January 2008: Global Media and Local Perception: Calibrating Mediated Discourses and (Direct) Action, The National Doctoral School for Media, Communication and Journalism (FMKJ) and Centre for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University (3 ECTS)
- October-November 2007: Acting with technology - research methods on context and change, with Bonnie Nardi, Human Centered Informatics Postgraduate Research School, Aalborg University (5 ECTS)
- May 2007: Workshop on Interdisciplinary Discourse, Center for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University (1 ECTS)
- May 2007: First steps: Data Collection and Transcribing Multimodal and Mediated Interactions, second workshop in PlaceMe Nordic Network (3 ECTS)
- November 2006: Perspectives on Identity in Learning and Education Research (5 ECTS)
- October 2006: Social Software and Web 2.0 - Critical perspectives and challenges for research and business, Aalborg University (1 ECTS)
- August 2006: DeXus 4.0- Discourse Nexus Summer School, Aalborg University (5 ECTS)
Conferences
- October 2007: Internet Research 8.0: Let’s Play, Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, Canada
- October 2007: 4S Annual Meeting, Society for Social Studies of Society, Montreal, Canada
- April 2007: Digitale medier og didaktisk design, The Danish University of Education
- April 2007: Børnebeskyttelse ved en skillevej - børn og medier i netværkssamfundet, Medierådet for Børn og Unge
- January 2007: The Alpine CSCL Rendez-Vous 2007, Switzerland
- November 2006: Rhetoric in Society 2006, Aalborg University
- April 2006: Networked Learning Conference 2006, Lancaster University
Participation in Research Projects and Networks
Current
- 2008-: Member of the Academy Council, Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University
- 2007-: Member of Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
- 2007-: Member of Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)
- 2007-: Member of Forskerskolen i Medier, Kommunikation og Journalistik (FMKJ)
- 2007-: Experience Ethnography and Experimental Qualitative Methods (Research Group)
- 2006-: The Media Council for Children and Young People (Awareness Node working group under the EU Safer Internet Plus Programme)
- 2006-: PlaceMe
- 2006-: e-Learning Lab - Center for User Driven Innovation, Learning and Design
- 2006-: InDiMedia
- 2006-: The Network on ICT and Learning
- 2006-: HCI
- 2006-: Kaleidoscope
- 2005-: Centre for Discourse Studies
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