Was fantastic to work with you on this - many thanks for taking on the report and adding some much needed intellectual insight into this project.
CM - danah has been doing great stuff (even more recently) and I guess the statement relates to a project of this size with the specific focus...
drkellypage
· 5 months ago
Carl, thanks for your comment, although I'd say that in fact 'Danah is not asking any specific questions, but exploring the socio-cultural context of youth technology use. She has some greatwork on youth/teen culture, behaviour and identity in social networks, a large portion looked at the diffidence between adult perceptions/attitudes toward youth behaviour/beliefs/emotions and the actual socio-cultural context of that activity. Her focus on social construction of fear through media and ethnographic approach is very well known, the methods by which she listens to a youth voice - many great insights are derived from her work
In this I think we are similar and different - similar in that we too have focused on youth voice, not our words to describe their feelings/emotions. However are different in that we just wanted to focus on emotions/feelings. So we asked youth to use their voice, their words to articulate their feelings/emotions. It's a more focused remit. It's not as sizeable nor deep ethnographic research approach as Danah, however provides us with a snapshot into the language youth use to describe their emotions/feelings and the reasoning for the emotion/feeling expressed.
In that, we do ask a different question, with a very different methodology, but perhaps with a similar objective - to provide more insight and listen more to the youth voice in 'how the web makes them feel'. Perhaps I should have written:
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Check out danah boyd's research and blog, e.g.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/...
CM - danah has been doing great stuff (even more recently) and I guess the statement relates to a project of this size with the specific focus...
In this I think we are similar and different - similar in that we too have focused on youth voice, not our words to describe their feelings/emotions. However are different in that we just wanted to focus on emotions/feelings. So we asked youth to use their voice, their words to articulate their feelings/emotions. It's a more focused remit. It's not as sizeable nor deep ethnographic research approach as Danah, however provides us with a snapshot into the language youth use to describe their emotions/feelings and the reasoning for the emotion/feeling expressed.
In that, we do ask a different question, with a very different methodology, but perhaps with a similar objective - to provide more insight and listen more to the youth voice in 'how the web makes them feel'. Perhaps I should have written:
"not enough"
Smiles
Kelly
The good thing there is that the answer is a drawing instead of words -a much rawer transmittor of feelings.