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TY - GEN
T1 - Travelling through facebook; exploring affordances through the Lens of age
AU - Panteli, Niki
AU - Marder, Ben
AU - Davenport, James H.
AU - Nemetz, Fabio
PY - 2014/6/11
Y1 - 2014/6/11
N2 - This developmental paper uses the travel writing genre to study the affordances of social networking sites (SNS) from an age perspective. It provides a travel journey through the city of Facebook and in doing so identifies that affordances are found at two intertwined layers, the global and the local. Further, it shows that Facebook affords the creation of multiple new locales of this nature, which are age-specific. Our travel story leads us to three such locales: playground, social club and night club. The paper reflects on the use of travel writing as an alternative genre in information systems (IS) research.
AB - This developmental paper uses the travel writing genre to study the affordances of social networking sites (SNS) from an age perspective. It provides a travel journey through the city of Facebook and in doing so identifies that affordances are found at two intertwined layers, the global and the local. Further, it shows that Facebook affords the creation of multiple new locales of this nature, which are age-specific. Our travel story leads us to three such locales: playground, social club and night club. The paper reflects on the use of travel writing as an alternative genre in information systems (IS) research.
KW - Affordances
KW - Facebook
KW - Genre
KW - Travel writing
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84905841641
SN - 9780991556700
T3 - ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems
BT - ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems
PB - Association for Information Systems
T2 - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2014
Y2 - 9 June 2014 through 11 June 2014
ER -