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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.

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