Comments on: The Web Makes Me Feel ….

By: Case Insights » DML 2010: S. Craig Watkins on Black and Latino youth remaking the participation gap!

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:31:31 +0000

[...] In addition to how Black/Latino youth use, are, see, interact and participate in the digital media space, how does digital media make Black/Latino youth feel? This question comes from an exploratory study lead by MedisSnackers in the UK that I was fortunate to be part of entitled: The Web Makes Me Feel! [...]

By: emmanuelleen

emmanuelleen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:54:59 +0000

For another interesting emotional investigation of the Web, see Kevin Kelly's Internet Mapping project : http://www.kk.org/internet-mapping/ . Pour les francophones, voyez http://www.ecrans.fr/Le-site-du-jour-Dessine-mo....

The good thing there is that the answer is a drawing instead of words -a much rawer transmittor of feelings.

By: drkellypage

drkellypage — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:03:24 +0000

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:

"not enough"

Smiles
Kelly

By: DK

DK — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:30:03 +0000

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…

By: Carl Morris

Carl Morris — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:48:03 +0000

Interesting but I would not agree with the statement “nobody is asking this question”.

Check out danah boyd's research and blog, e.g.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/...