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“ What’s on your mind ?” An explorative study about how youngsters use notions of time and space on Facebook Mathias Decuypere (Presenter) Steven Bruneel ( Co-author ). Overview. Two little remarks … Previous research Research question (s) The Facebook ‘Wall’ Results.
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“What’sonyourmind?”Anexplorativestudyabouthowyoungstersusenotions of time and spaceonFacebookMathiasDecuypere (Presenter)Steven Bruneel (Co-author)
Overview Twolittleremarks… Previous research Research question(s) The Facebook ‘Wall’ Results
Twolittleremarks… • What we report hereshouldbeconsidered as work in progress • Identityconstruction is a concept elaboratedupon in a lot of presentations of this workshop • In our paper, we try to capturehowyoungstersperceivethemselves and behaveonsocialnetworking sites as well. • However, time constraintsdo not allow to elaborate upon this point (and other parts of the conceptual framework) in detail here • For additional information, you are kindly referred to the conference proceedings
Previous research • “Where are you?” phenomenon: peopletend to askeachotherthisquestionoften in cellphoneconversations (Ferraris, 2006; Plant, 2002) • Do students pose/answerthisquestion in textmessages as well? • Otherspatial/temporal elements in textmessages? • Questionsanswered in Decuypere et al. (Submitted) • 494 textmessagescouldbestored in six different clusters:
Previous research Cluster classification 1. Where are you (16.1%) 2. What are youdoing (20.0%) (Links with) 3. Last-momentmodifications (23.7%) Present 4. Reporting of nearevents (6.8 %) 5. Very-nearfuture (24.4 %) Future 6. Farfrom present (8.8 %)
Research question(s) • Are there differences, and if so, which differences are there, between cell phone usage and Facebook usage concerning the use of time (and the clusters found in our previous research)? • [ + A research question dealing with the already mentioned self-understanding and space, see paper]
Subject of analysis: The Facebook ‘Wall’ (cf. Selwyn, 2009) 30 Days, 12 respondents, 652 messages
Results • More SMS messagesdealingwith the present • More wallmessagesdealingwith the future • Wall messagesdealingwith the past (oftenreportingwhathappenedduringperiod of offline activity) requireddevisingadditional clusters, sincealmostno SMS messages dealt withthis past
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