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Summary information

Study title

Mobile Phone and Media Diaries 1999-2001

Creator

Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)
Oksman, Virpi (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)

Study number / PID

FSD2171 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2171 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2171 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Young people as Actors in the New Era of Communication Technology 1997-2002

The data in the series studied the adoption and use of mobile phones in the lives of Finnish children, young people and families. There are over ten thousand pages of interview transcriptions. Interviewees were families, teenagers, young people, courting couples and teachers. In addition to mobile phone use, the interviews hold information about the everyday lives of Finns at the time. Data collection started in 1997 and continued in three different projects, funded by Nokia Mobile Phones, Telecom Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. In 2001, Information...

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Abstract

The data consist of 17 diaries written by young Finnish girls and boys, recording their use of mobile phones and the media. The time period for keeping the diary was generally a week, the participants were mostly 15-17 years old, and the diaries were written in 1999 and in 2001. The seven diaries written in 1999 focused mainly on experiences and perceptions of mobile phone use, while the ten diaries written in 2001 covered media use as well as mobile phone use. In 2001, the participants also wrote a short essay titled "The media and I". The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Topics

Social sciencesHumanitiesInformation societyYouthSocial behaviour and attitudes

Keywords

Electronic mailInformation societyInterpersonal communicationLife stylesMass media useMobile communicationSocial networksYouth

Methodology

Data collection period

1999 - 2001

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Young people around Finland participating in the research project

Sampling procedure

Non-probability

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered writings and/or diaries

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2011

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

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