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Pew Research Center reports that older people are almost as likely to embrace technological change as young people: …innovations in cell phones, email and online shopping are seen as changes for the better by most Americans with positive views reaching well beyond the youngest Millennial generation. These kinds of change are viewed at 42.6% of respondents say they feel less inhibited interacting online than face-to-face. 20% say they lashed out at companies or products thanks to the anonymity of online interaction. 31.5% say that online interaction let them do something they’d been wanting to do. Research from Euro RSCG suggests (as you’d have guessed) that Continue reading SocNet Users Enhance Relationships, Lose Inhibitions Whisking through my unread posts today, two items struck me as demanding a little follow-up. First of all, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’s Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship. The nature of the paper is pretty obvious from its title, though that is not to imply that it is not well-written, intelligent and provoking. Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following from here, here and here. 46% of the online population in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US danah boyd has published a new paper at First Monday, an online academic journal. In it, she examines the concept of Friendship on social networks, as opposed to friendship in the offline world. Briefly, Friends (capital ‘F’) are about ‘identity performance’ — they reflect who you are online and offline — and may arrive From the National Statistics office (PDF), via Resource Shelf: Three out of four connections to the Internet [in the UK] are now via broadband. In September 2006, broadband connections accounted for 75.2 per cent of all Internet connections, up from 72.6 per cent in June 2006. This is according to the latest update |             | |||
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