What Are the Roles of Information Grounds in Tweens' Lives?

Fisher, Carol Landry, and Charles Naumer [55], such information-rich social settings can be analyzed or facilitated using fifteen characteristics presented in a people-place-information trichotomy.

In fall of inquiry reported by Fisher and Naumer [41], along with our earlier environmental scanning, we expected that tweens might have unique information grounds based on their social and developmental uniqueness. The tweens reported a sort of places that they share information, usually with their peers. The most common information grounds were school (including cafeteria, hallway, playground, and bus), shopping malls, athletic fields, community parks, home, and their neighborhoods. Less common information grounds ranged from churches and libraries to restaurants, convenience stores, and public transit. School was the most common information base for right reason: all the tweens attended school; it is a park property to plan social activities; it is a site where opportunities to mix and socialize are planned into the schedule, albeit with constraints.

Tweens also used school as a site to design other opportunities to get together in soul or online. In focus groups, tweens explained: "Like half of our school is in the lunchroom, so you can talk to more people," "Me and my friends at recess, we speak to each other," and "At school, we ask each other if we`ll be on IM." Within schools, recess and lunch were famous as multiplication of the school day when preteens were most probably to share information. Lauren (University) explained: "You can ever do it at school. You can ever do it at recess; you can ever do it at lunch. You can do it after school; you can do it before school, if you got there early enough. And if they do over to your house, they can ever do it there." Some tweens reported ED Hardy Boots that the train can likewise be a lay for social interactions among ethnic groups.

This was reported most often in our Ministry group, who were all African American: Tween: There are the group things. There`s the board where all the Mexicans sit. And they talk Spanish most the time. And there`s other tables and stuff. And like, yeah. So we merely talking about stuff. So we merely talking about stuff. Interviewer: What sort of stuff? Tween: Movies, our homework.