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Today, Safer Internet Day 2010 is celebrated in more than 30 countries all over the world. This year's topic is Think B4 U post! focusing on making children and young people aware that they can be in control of their online identity. ...
The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) recently launched a new initiative involving several Danish universities called The Danes' Academy (Danskernes Akademi). The project involves broadcasting short university lectures on daytime TV on the n...
Before Christmas the Danish youth panel Medierødderne sent an open letter to Facebook explaining their thoughts on privacy on the site. For instance, they wrote: For us it's important to have privacy online to protect ourselve...
Today it's been three years since I started 'My PhD Blog' and wrote my very first post . Wow, time indeed does fly when you're a PhD student. Given that the blog is now three years old, I should have handed in my dissertation by now - actual...
I have a new paper out in the latest volume of the journal MedieKultur . The paper is called ' Social network sites and digital youth culture: When young people practice friendships online ' ('Sociale netværkssider og digital ungdomskultu...
I have three months left before I have to turn in my PhD, which of course means that all I am doing at the moment is writing and working on my dissertation. Being in this state of mind has made me think about all the different metaphors one could ...
Yesterday I gave four public talks in Aalborg under the headline Facebook and the digital youth culture (all talks in Danish, though). During the day I talked at three different high schools and the last talk was in the evening at Studenterh...
As regular followers of this blog will know, my main 'field site' has for many years been the Danish social network site Arto.com . For a long time Arto was the most popular SNS in Denmark with a huge group of core users between the age of 12 an...
The Danish Media Council for Children and Young People has set up a youth panel called Medierødderne consisting of a group of children and young people between the age of 10 and 15. During the summer they have been working on compiling...
When I first started writing my PhD dissertation I used Endnote to manage citations and references. Half way through the period I switched to RefWorks , which I liked because of the possibility to store all of my references online . Then a fe...
More than 1.5 year ago I gave an interview to a Danish woman's magazine called Femina about keeping a research blog. Last week the interview was finally published as part of a special theme on blogging. It's a really small piece (and the article...
I'm attending a PhD course on Social Media: Analysing Identity, Sociality and Creativity in Online Networked Environments . Some of us are twittering using the hashtag #PhDsmc . Fell free to follow
Next week Nancy Baym , University of Kansas, will be visiting Aalborg University to give a summer lecture on Qualitative Internet Research: New Media and Methodology . Nancy is coming to Denmark in connection with the PhD course on Social Medi...
I recently read an article from Switched reporting on a new study from University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center . The study deals with data collected from an sample of American law enforcement agencies about crime...
During the past few weeks I have been giving a couple of public talks at different conferences in Denmark, all focusing on youth and digital media. Even though my talks usually don't include many perspectives on online safety and focus more on com...
As regular readers of this blog might know I have a huge body of data in my PhD project. Among the data are 2400 answers to an open-ended questionnaire dealing with the experiences of youth on social network sites. At the moment I am looking at so...
I have nine months left of my PhD scholarship, which means nine months to finish the nine chapters, that my dissertation is composed of. As anyone who has ever tried it can probably testify, writing a 300 pages dissertation is a bumpy ride with ma...
I am reading Nancy Baym and Annette Markham 's edited book Internet Inquiry at the moment and I am enjoying it very much. It is composed of six sections with six different questions, each of them answered by a main author and two responding ...
The National Consumer Agency of Denmark has just launched an online debate forum for parents of online children (called Forældre til Onlinebørn in Danish). I think this is a really interesting initiative and a potential empir...
In Denmark, Facebook has become so mainstream that you can expect all kinds of people at all ages to have a profile on the site. Apparently, Denmark is the second largest Facebook country measured in profiles per citizens (even though the large nu...
Creating or joining a Facebook group in order to publicly state your opinion about something is the most easy thing in the world. In Denmark, whenever specific court cases are heavily mentioned in the news, people start creating Facebook groups di...
Today My PhD Blog can celebrate its second birthday. Exactly two years ago I started blogging about my PhD project and interrelated subjects. So far this has resulted in 90 posts and more than 300 comments, which is okay. (This year I have been le...
For a while I have been wanting to keep a blog in Danish. However, I must admit that I do not have the time to maintain two blogs. Therefore, I was happy when Lars Damgaard Nielsen asked me to be a guest-blogger at his interesting blog called Nett...
In e-Learning Lab we have as Christmas garden gnome with the name 'Ell Nissepus'. Last year one of my colleagues created a Facebook profile for her, and during December Nissepus posted status updates about the upcoming Christmas party etc. This ye...
I just wanted to share with you the opportunity of subscribing to podcasts from the research center e-Learning Lab (which is where I am physically located at Aalborg Uiversity). The latest podcast is an interview with famous 'Communities of Pract...
A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from Online Universities.com informing me that they just published an article that lists the Top 100 Anthropology Blogs. In the article they write: It doesn't matter if you're studying capuchins in South ...
About a year ago I gave an interview about Danish youngsters' activities on Arto for a debate book dealing with online social networking and young people's online behaviour. The book is out now with the title The Open Diary (in Danish Den &Arin...
Together with PhD student Stine Lomborg from the University of Aarhus I am currently planning a PhD course about social media to be held in Denmark next year (24th to 26th of June 2009). The course is entitled Social Media: Analysing Identity, ...
I really enjoyed last week's Association of Internet Researches conference, Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place , which was very well organised. Besides presenting a paper I participated in a roundtable discussion cal...
For the next three days I will be attending the conference Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place at the IT University in Copenhagen. It is the annual Association of Internet Researchers ' conference which is held in Den...
The next couple of days I am attending a PhD course called The analytical leap: Knowledge production in communication research with Adele E. Clarke , author of Situational Analysis. Grounded theory after the Post-Modern Turn . The course is a...
Jeg har i løbet af den seneste uge holdt et par foredrag om sociale netværk, hvor jeg har præsenteret en tese om fire faser, jeg mener, man som (typisk) Facebook-bruger gennemgår. De fire faser har jeg identificeret v...
I am working on the methodology chapter for my dissertation at the moment. Here, I am trying to describe all of my data material, which is a rather tricky affair. As you probably know, I have been using various ethnographic approaches in my PhD pr...
In my last post I failed to mention that my AoIR paper presentation is part of an interesting panel called At the Intersection: Public and Private, Global and Local, Design and Use, Virtual and Textual, which features papers from some of my go...
As I am no longer on vacation, it must be time for an update from My PhD Blog. As I wrote in my last post, I have been working on my paper for this year's AoiR conference in Copenhagen. The paper is entitled Online soical networking: From ...
Yes, I know. I have been an awfully lazy blogger lately. And I have not even been on vacation yet… However, I have been using the silly season for working on my paper for the upcoming AoiR conference in Copenhagen in October. The pap...
Today (1st of July) I am exactly half way through my three year PhD scholarship. That means it is time to really concentrate on me and my PhD project. It also means that I must learn the crucial gift of being able to say no. Up until now, I f...
I just read an interesting article about how Swedish children are upset over their parents' use of the internet - in particular, if the parents are visiting pornographic web pages. It is the recent report from the Swedish organisation BRIS (C...
My colleague and friend Anders Albrechtslund will be defending his PhD dissertation next Monday. The dissertation is called In the Eyes of the Beholder: Introducing participation and ethics to surveillance and is a collection of seven publis...
The past couple of weeks the Danish social network site for teenagers, Arto , has repeatedly appeared in the news media. This is due to the fact that a journalist from the Danish tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet created a false profile on Arto ...
This weekend the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende published an article about children and young people's use of social network sites and how much knowledge parents have about their children's online activities. The article is based on the s...
I am in Greece at the moment. At a beautiful summer resort in the breathtaking Halkidiki , which is located in the south eastern part of Central Macedonia. I am here on a working holiday - not attending the Networked Learning Conference , which...
I have been so busy that I haven't had time to announce my participation in the forthcoming Association of Internet Researchers' ( AoIR ) conference called Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place which will be held in Octo...
A long while ago, my colleague Thomas Ryberg and I started writing a paper about strong and weak ties in networked environments. Now, two years later, the paper is finally published in Journal of Computer Assisted Learning . The paper is en...
I am in Finland at the moment giving a couple of guest lectures at The University of Vaasa at The Department of Communication Studies . Today I taught the Advanced Course in Multimedia Communication and tomorrow I will be giving a lecture on t...
The Danish Media Council for Children and Young People has launched a new campaign about Internet safety aimed at children and young people. The campaign features a fictional character, the 32-year old Hjarness, who has profiles on many differ...
Today I moved into a new office a the University. The office is a one-man office, which will be quite a change as I am used to sitting in a five-man open office space. However, I am excited to have my own office and I think that the peace and quit...
As some of you might know, I have started taking pictures of offline walls (aka graffiti). Especially, when I am out giving talks all over Denmark and have a lot of waiting time in public spaces such as train or bus stations. As I have men...
As promised, I would blog in English about the new survey on Danish young people's experiences on social network sites. I can start off with something simple; the amount of time that they spend on social network sites. According to the qu...
Today is Safer Internet Day 2008 . In that connection the Danish Media Council and I launch some of the results from our online survey about Danish children and young people's use of social network sites. See more about the survey here . Do...
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