McRobbie & Garber's investigation into understanding the bedroom as a personal space for girls begins the investigation. Hodkinson notes the importance of 'personal space as a base point for identity' and the 'personlisatation of communications' i.e mobile phones
The bedroom was identified as playing 3 main roles:
- A canvas for identification, exhibition and mapping
- A private space
- A social space
Hodkinson then applies these roles to SNS. Let us take facebook as an example; a private space which only the user can access, a social space in which you can chat to friends and a safe space in that it presents no physical danger (as one might experience in a park or town centre late at night). The most interesting role however is the identification, exhibition and mapping of friends. One can see friends lists of other people who they are associated with and display their own associations in return. Though one may have hundreds of 'friends' on site Hodkinson found that young people talked to or considered to be real friends.
Provisions made for those between 13 and 18 are often few and far between, the age group is seen as unruley, undesireable. As young persons movements are often restricted by their parents (who's concerns lie with the saftey of their children) I believe that their adaptation of technology is both innovative and fufills social requirements that current society denies them.
