"A little silly and empty-headed" - Older adults' understandings of social networking sites

People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology - Proceedings of HCI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-54

  Lehtinen, Vilma ^a   Näsänen, Jaana ^a   Sarvas, Risto ^a  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aging society; Older adults; Social media; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

AGING SOCIETIES; INFORMATION SOCIETY; OLDER ADULTS; PRIVACY MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL EVENTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857578450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2009.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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