Towards a digital adolescent society? The social structure of the Icelandic adolescent blogosphere
Post-print (lokaútgáfa höfunda) The adolescent production of blogs has created an adolescent public sphere that transcends both intimate circles of friends and the adolescent communities of specific schools or neighborhoods. Almost all 15-16 year old adolescents in Iceland regularly read blogs and m...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/1078 2023-05-15T16:49:45+02:00 Towards a digital adolescent society? The social structure of the Icelandic adolescent blogosphere Guðmundsson, Birgir Ólafsson, Kjartan Félagsvísinda- og lagadeild (HA) Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (UA) Hug- og félagsvísindasvið (HA) School of Humanities and Social Sciences (UA) Háskólinn á Akureyri University of Akureyri 2010-12-17 645-662 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1078 https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444810377918 en eng SAGE Publications New Media & Society;13(4) Bjarnason, T., Gudmundsson, B. og Olafsson, K. (2011). Towards a digital adolescent society? the social structure of the Icelandic adolescent blogosphere. New Media and Society, 13(4), 645-662. doi:10.1177/1461444810377918 1461-4448 1461-7315 (eISSN) https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1078 New Media & Society doi:10.1177/1461444810377918 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Sociology and Political Science Communication Blog Adolescent society Samskipti Blogg Unglingamenning Tölvusamskipti info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2010 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/1078 https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444810377918 2022-11-18T06:51:43Z Post-print (lokaútgáfa höfunda) The adolescent production of blogs has created an adolescent public sphere that transcends both intimate circles of friends and the adolescent communities of specific schools or neighborhoods. Almost all 15-16 year old adolescents in Iceland regularly read blogs and many read blogs on a daily basis. Blogs by best friends and adolescents in the concrete adolescent community are most popular but a third of the population follows blogs that originate in the more abstract adolescent society. About three out of four girls and one out of three boys maintain their own blogpages and read blogs by other adolescents on a regular basis. Adolescents that write blogs are more involved in various activities associated with higher status in adolescent communities but lower status in the adult-controlled school community. The adolescent blogosphere may constitute an emergent digital adolescent society where inequalities in adolescent communities are reproduced. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) New Media & Society 13 4 645 662 |
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Post-print (lokaútgáfa höfunda) The adolescent production of blogs has created an adolescent public sphere that transcends both intimate circles of friends and the adolescent communities of specific schools or neighborhoods. Almost all 15-16 year old adolescents in Iceland regularly read blogs and many read blogs on a daily basis. Blogs by best friends and adolescents in the concrete adolescent community are most popular but a third of the population follows blogs that originate in the more abstract adolescent society. About three out of four girls and one out of three boys maintain their own blogpages and read blogs by other adolescents on a regular basis. Adolescents that write blogs are more involved in various activities associated with higher status in adolescent communities but lower status in the adult-controlled school community. The adolescent blogosphere may constitute an emergent digital adolescent society where inequalities in adolescent communities are reproduced. Peer Reviewed |
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Félagsvísinda- og lagadeild (HA) Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (UA) Hug- og félagsvísindasvið (HA) School of Humanities and Social Sciences (UA) Háskólinn á Akureyri University of Akureyri |
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Towards a digital adolescent society? The social structure of the Icelandic adolescent blogosphere |
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