AMANDA HYNAN FINAL THESIS PDF

Olivia goes home at the weekends and describes how she uses Facebook on the family
computer with the support of her carer (her term)
Amanda: and when you use Facebook with your carer at home
Olivia: yeah
Amanda: is that on the computer, do you have a computer at home
Olivia: yeah
Amanda: is it your family’s computer or is it your computer
Olivia: “we share”
[not consecutive]
Amanda: So you can catch up with Facebook every weekend so you don’t
have to wait too long to find out all the news, and but it would, am I right in
saying it would make a difference if you could find out things during the week
when you were here
Olivia: yeah
SLT: Georgie can I just tell Amanda quickly about what you talked about with
your texting, about how many times a week you like to text
Georgie: yeah
SLT: Georgie has asked for her targets to be 3 times a week that she texts
Amanda: okay so is that more than now, is that increasing
Georgie: yeah
The other issue that impacts on frequency of use is speed. As Caroline explains
Caroline’s blog
I can do email independently on the (VOCA) email browser. That#s [sic] good
but slow. It takes all afternoon to write all my news.
4.4.6. Summary
The internet is used for entertainment, research, academic and social activities that are
typical of online interests in the participants’ age demographic (mean age 20.04).
There was a small amount of evidence it supported paid employment and charity
work which is an area the young people will be considering as they near the end of
their educational careers. The evidence for the popularity of Facebook is not
surprising considering the worldwide appeal of the site. Despite some signs of waning
in early-adopter countries, the UK was listed as the having 29.8 million users logging
onto Facebook over the course of June 2011 which represents 58% of the 51.4 million
who are listed as being online (Arthur, 2011). Skype can offer opportunities to
participants who might not be able to use text-based communication independently or
temporarily do not have access to their VOCA equipment as it offers opportunities to
communicate with familiar others who can interpret total communication strategies.
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