Study title

Mobile Phone Use of Late Teens 1998-1999

Dataset ID Number

FSD2182

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2182
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2182

Data Type

Qualitative

Authors

• Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)

Other Identification/Acknowledgements

• Utriainen, Anu
• Rautiainen, Pirjo
• Järveläinen, Johanna

Abstract

The survey charted the late teens' use of mobile phones in Finland. The archived data consist of interviews conducted with late teens (aged 16-18) between 1998 and 1999. Topics covered the use of mobile phones with friends, in everyday life and in school. The dataset comprises 27 interviews.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Keywords

advertising; electronic mail; family life; information society; interpersonal communication; life styles; mass media use; mobile communication; social networks; youth

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Humanities (Fields of Science Classification)
• Youth (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Information society (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Consumption and consumer behaviour (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Young people as Actors in the New Era of Communication Technology 1997-2002

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Data Collector

• Rautiainen, Pirjo (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)
• Järveläinen, Johanna (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)
• Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)

Time Period Covered

1999

Collection Dates

1998-11 – 1999-03

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Teenagers aged around 16-18 in Finland

Time Method

Cross-section

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability

Interviewees were recruited around Finland. Interviews were conducted in cities, smaller population centres and rural areas.

Collection Mode

Face-to-face interview

Research Instrument

Interview scheme and/or themes

Data Files

27 interviews in RTF file format, approximately 697 pages of text. In addition, HTML files based on the RTF files.

Data File Language

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

Qualitative data are available in their original language only and are not translated.

Data Version

2.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The interviews were converted into digital format during the research project and they were anonymised during archiving.

The interviews were recorded and transcribed into text.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa (University of Tampere): Mobile Phone Use of Late Teens 1998-1999 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2011-03-08). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2182

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Publications

Publications based on the data are not listed by individual dataset. The list includes all publications based on the data produced by the mobile communication research project of the Information Society Research Centre (FSD2206, FSD2205, FSD2204, FSD2203, FSD2199, FSD2198, FSD2197, FSD2196, FSD2195, FSD2194, FSD2193, FSD2182, FSD2171, FSD2144, FSD2142, FSD2141).

Rautiainen, Pirjo (2001). 'Kentän' ja 'toisen' kohtaaminen. Kokemuksia kenttätyöstä intiaanireservaatissa. Elore 8(1). Joensuu: Suomen Kansantietouden Tutkijain Seura ry.

Rautiainen, Pirjo (2002). Antropologin kenttä ja työ - nojatuolista norsunluutorniin? Kulttuuriantropologin työn pohdintaa kahden kenttätyökokemuksen perusteella. Etnologiatieteiden tutkimuksia; 41. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopistopaino. Kulttuuriantropologian pro gradu -tutkielma.

Rautiainen, Pirjo (2003). "Ei siitä mitään infoähkyä tule"- Katsaus nuorten mediakulttuuriin. Kirjastolehti; 4. Suomen kirjastoseura.

Rautiainen, Pirjo (2005). "Se on semmoinen taskussa kulkeva kaveri". Katsaus lasten ja nuorten kännykkäkulttuuriin. Peili: elokuva- ja televisiokasvatuslehti; 2. Elokuva- ja televisiokasvatuksen keskus ETKK ry.

Rautiainen, Pirjo (2005). Romance and everyday work, the two sides of fieldwork - a challenge for the anthropologist. Ethnologia Fennica, 25-33. Finnish Studies in Ethnology. Jyväskylä: Kopijyvä.

Rautiainen, Pirjo (2005). Mobile Youth in the Information Society. New Media as Symbols of the Individual and the Community. In: eCity - Analyzing the efforts to generate local dynamism in the City of Tampere (eds. Antti Kasvio & Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko), 565-587. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2002). "Den är hela livet i min hand". Mobilkommunikation, familj och kön. NIKK magasin; 2. Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2002). Toda mi vida en la palma de mi mano. La communicatión móvil en la vida diaria de ninös y adolescentes de Finlandia. Juventud y teléfonos móviles. Revista de estudios de juventud (57), 25-33. Madrid: Instituto de la Juventud Redacción.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2003). "Perhaps it is a body part". How the mobile phone became an organic part of everyday lives of Finnish children and adolescents. In: Machines that Become Us (ed. James Katz), 293-308. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2003). "That's modern life for you". Mobile communication in everyday life of children and teenagers in Finland. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 48(1-2), 149-159.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2003). Extension of the hand: Childrens's and teenagers relationship with the mobile phone in Finland. In: Mediating the Human Body. Technology, Communication and Fashion (eds. Leopoldina Fortunati & James Katz & Raimonda Riccini), 130-141. Lawrence Eribaum Associates, Inc Publishers.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2003). Il prolungamento della mano. Il rapporto di bambini e adolescenti coi cellulare in Finlandia. In: Corpo futuro. Il corpo umano tra technologie, comunicazione e moda (eds. Leopoldina Fortunati & James Katz & Raimonda Riccini), 144-155. Collana di sociologia. Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2005). Mobile Kommunikation und Senioren im hoch technisierten Finnland. In: Mobile Kommunikation - Perspektiven und Forschungsfelder (eds. Joachim R. Höflich & Julian Gebhardt), 179-199. Berlin: Peter Lang.

Oksman, Virpi & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2001). "Se on sitä nykypäivää". Matkaviestintä lasten ja nuorten tietoyhteiskuntana. Teoksessa: Lasten tietoyhteiskunta (toim. Marjatta Kangassalo & Juha Suoranta), 60-71. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

Oksman, Virpi (2010). The mobile phone: A medium in itself. VTT Publications 737. Helsinki: Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus VTT.

Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2001). Kännyssä piilevät sanomat. Nuoret, väline ja viesti. Tampere: Tampere University Press.

Kasesniemi, Eija-Liisa & Rautiainen, Pirjo (2002). Mobile communication of children and teenagers in Finland. Teoksessa: Perpetual Contact. Mobile communication, Private Talk and Public Performance (eds. James Katz & Mark Aakhus), 200-220. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.