Tag Archives: research

How young people use mobile phones to seek help

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Elena Di Antonio

YouthNet has completed the first stage of a research project funded by the Nominet Trust that looks at how young people use mobile devices to meet their support needs. The research, involving more than 1,000 young people, consisted of online … Continue reading →

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Consulting young people on the redevelopment of TheSite.org

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Sau Pang

As part of redeveloping TheSite.org, we’re doing some work to find out what our users want from our services. The first step was to recruit two focus groups of young people, one group that knows the site inside out (TheSite … Continue reading →

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Mobile focus groups….. round two!

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Elena Di Antonio

As part of our research focusing on young people’s online help-seeking behaviour and funded by the Nominet Trust, YouthNet has just completed four online focus groups involving 28 participants. The objectives of the focus groups were to ask participants about … Continue reading →

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Focus on mobile

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Elena Di Antonio

YouthNet is undertaking an innovative piece of research focusing on how young people’s online help-seeking behaviour varies according to which devices are being used, which officially kicked off last week, when we ran the first of four online focus groups … Continue reading →

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What factors influence young people’s online seeking behaviour?

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Elena Di Antonio

Young people today are often referred as Digital Natives; the first generation growing up with new digital technologies (Prensky M., 2001). The internet has revolutionised social and cognitive behaviours, including the way young people seek information. Any service supporting young … Continue reading →

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