[Reblogged] John Palfrey on Facebook Usage
Filed at 8:49 am on January 7, 2009 in Civic Engagement, Credibility, Games, Identity, Digital Divide • Leave a comment
We reblog an NPR/ WBUR interview with John Palfrey, where he discusses his research on Facebook usage. Palfrey is a professor at Harvard University Law School and faculty co-director at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
“The incredibly popular social networking website Facebook has taken the world by storm since it was founded by a Harvard student in 2004.
It claims to be the fifth most trafficked website in the world, and one wonders—just what is Facebook?; how are people using it?; is it productive or a waste of time?; and is it possible to become addicted to it?
We speak to John Palfrey, a Harvard University law professor and faculty director at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He’s also author of the book “Born Digital”, and he’s conducted extensive research on Facebook usage in America and abroad.”
Palfrey also discusses recent research on digital youth from Mizuko Ito and her colleagues. Listen to the interview here.
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