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Teens' everyday information practices on mobile media: “catching up” and “reaching out”
Author(s) -
Kimm Junoh,
Boase Jefferey
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.12
Subject(s) - internet privacy , ethnically diverse , face (sociological concept) , everyday life , mobile device , family ties , advertising , interpersonal ties , business , public relations , psychology , computer science , sociology , social psychology , political science , world wide web , ethnic group , social science , anthropology , genealogy , law , history
Mobile media have become a central part of everyday life for many teens. We examine how teens use the media to access diverse information to maintain and reconnect with personal relationships in their personal networks. Based on semi‐structured interviews with 81 teens from ethnically and economically diverse backgrounds, we find that teens generally have broad networks of ties with whom they communicate through both face‐to‐face interactions and mobile media. To maintain these networks, the teens in our study use information that they either unexpectedly encounter or purposely seek out on various platforms available on their mobile devices to “reach out” to dormant ties and “catch up” with active ties.