Study title

Family Interviews on Children's Mobile Phone Use 1997

Dataset ID Number

FSD2196

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2196
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2196

Data Type

Qualitative

Authors

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

Abstract

The survey charted the use of mobile phones in Finnish families and among children in particular. The archived material consists of family interviews conducted in 1997. Topics included the role of mobile communication in families and children's mobile phone use. The dataset consists of 31 interviews.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Keywords

children; families; family life; information society; interpersonal communication; mobile communication; social networks; youth

Topic Classification

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

• Johanna Järveläinen (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)
• Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)
• Pirkko Järvelä (University of Tampere. Information Society Research Centre)

Time Period Covered

1997

Collection Dates

1997

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Family

Universe

Families around Finland who used mobile phones

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability

Families were recruited for interviews around Finland.

Collection Mode

Face-to-face interview

Research Instrument

Interview scheme and/or themes

Data Files

31 interviews in RTF file format. 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 anonymised during the archiving process. Family interviews consisting of separate files were merged into a single file. If necessary, the interviews were converted into RTF file format.

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): Family Interviews on Children's Mobile Phone Use 1997 [dataset]. Data version 2.0 (2011-03-09). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2196; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2196

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.