The Blogging Divide

• Introduction
  • technology moving faster and faster => gap getting wider
  • teenagers left to their own devices in discovering
    • tools
    • communities
    • new ways to relate to people
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• What do teenagers do online
  • library vs. town
  • msn/gaming/blogging
  • social network extends beyond offline life
• A look at teenager blogs
  • why do they do it?
    • collective memory
    • tribe
  • what are they made of
    • photographs
    • copied lyrics, poems
    • anecdotes
    • photo-scrapbook type most often
• Problems on teenager blogs
  • mobbing
  • insults
  • suicide/depression
  • exposure
    • skin
    • acts
      • theft
      • drugs
      • parties
• Why do we have these "problems"
  • anonymity
    • être discrets
    • how one can stumble upon something online
  • permanence of digital media
  • non-awareness of the public nature of blogging
  • teen-only community
• an approach to the situation via schools
  • external person who knows the bloggy web well
  • 3-fold approach: teachers, parents, children
• what to tell them and how