2013
DOI: 10.29173/cais537
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Building Bridges for Seniors: Older Adults and the Digital Divide

Abstract: Bridging the digital divide is a multi-faceted challenge. Information providers, intermediaries, and users each bear some degree of responsibility for coming together in this area. In this paper, the author reports on three studies, each of which delved into the question of how older adults are coping with the author's supervision. In one study older adults visiting community senior centres. . .

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“…Age did show a trend across groups, with the mean age of nonusers being approximately 10 years older than either semi‐users or users. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration reports that 37.1% of adults aged 50 years and older access the Internet compared with 63.9% of 24‐49 year olds and 65% of 18‐24 year olds [39]. Part of this age disparity might be because high‐speed Internet was not widely available in this country until the early 1990s.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Age did show a trend across groups, with the mean age of nonusers being approximately 10 years older than either semi‐users or users. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration reports that 37.1% of adults aged 50 years and older access the Internet compared with 63.9% of 24‐49 year olds and 65% of 18‐24 year olds [39]. Part of this age disparity might be because high‐speed Internet was not widely available in this country until the early 1990s.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Studiul întreprins de către Wicks (Wicks 2013) a sugerat că impedimentele legate de acces nu sunt singura problemă şi a subliniat `reticenţa` ca fiind semnificativă în rândul seniorilor.…”
Section: Excluzinea Digitalăunclassified
“…Outside of Spain, other studies have contributed to the background on the digitization of seniors. One of the pioneering works is that of Wicks [21], which established the differences between old and young seniors that other subsequent studies have also highlighted and that will also be examined here. The study suggested that access barriers are not the only problem and pointed to reluctance as another significant barrier observed among seniors.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%