1. ‘Adolescents and the Web:
the attractions of Facebook’
by Danica Radovanovic
Interdisciplinary conference: problems of Adolescence
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
26 June 2010
PhD Chevening Scholar
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford

2. Teenage diaries?

3. In a Shopping mall, Internet cafe, after 11pm, Belgrade, Serbia

4. Data = Information in Permanent Flux
.

5. Dispersive public forum
global network of people
interaction, collaboration

6. Public sphere

7. Networked publics.
Being constantly online.
listservs, chat rooms, forums,
blogosphere, twittersphere,
Social network sites,
Wikipedia, etc.

8. OFFLINE = ONLINE
SNS - Communication practices in pre-existing networks

9. Not allowed by parents? Lack of mobility? No access to publics?
Flickr: How am I spending Friday nights. By - I am a sunny day.
day

10. 1997 sixdegrees.com
2002 friendster
2003 my space, linkedin, orkut
2004 facebook, harvard only
2006 facebook opened for wider public – corporate networks

11. If you are not on Facebook – you are not “IN”.
You don't exist.

14. PROFILE
Self expression, virtual body

15. British teens on SNSs
as any other teens in the
world:
- connecting
- communicating
- socialising
- hanging out
- chatting
- gossiping
- goofing around
- flirting
.....but also
LEARNING.
PARTICIPATING.
CREATING.

16. FRIENDS
Peer public, classmates, BBF
Flickr: Dusty and Sarah by Cakeface originals

18. Facebook Wall, Comments, testimonials.
Social grooming.

20. Applications - Newsfeed, status updates, multimedia,
pages, groups, events, blogs, notes, chat

21. Applications and Games

22. Flickr: by Sibbad
Parents and Adolescents = Communication and Trust.
Learning together. Educators: digital literacy.

23. References
Digital Youth Research project (funded by the MacArthur Foundation)
●
Digital Youth Work http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/publications/
●
●Dutton, W., Helsper, E. J., and Gerber, M. M. (2009). The Internet in
Britain: 2009., Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
●EU Kids Online Final Report (EUKO)
(Livingstone and Haddon 2009)
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/
●Risky Behaviors and Online Safety:
A 2010 Literature Review (draft)
Samantha Biegler and danah boyd
Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://www.zephoria.org/files/2010SafetyLitReview.pdf

24. Thank you!
Email:
danica@danicar.org