Obstacles to social networking website use among older adults

Braun, Michael

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“…Para sumergirlos en estos avances, hay que incluir un estilo de aprendizaje que se centre en el uso de las TIC para su vida diaria: desde realizar gestiones bancarias hasta reencontrarse con un antiguo amigo. e) Participación en redes sociales: Braun 26 realizó un estudio en el que seleccionó a 124 personas de entre 60 y 90 años que fueron sometidas a una entrevista online sobre redes sociales. Se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados: es muy probable que una persona que utilice Internet acceda a alguna red social; la facilidad de su uso no es un factor determinante, existe cierta presión social que induce a utilizarlas y la confianza en dichas redes es directamente proporcional a la intención de usarlas.…”

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La formación de profesionales universitarios en información y documentación desde una nueva perspectiva: la tercera edad

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Patiño-Agudo

2017

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Palabras clave: Grado en información y documentación; Tercera edad; Diseño de contenidos; Salidas profesionales; Universidad de Extremadura. Abstract The Training of Professionals in the Information Sciences from A New Perspective: Seniors Cristina Faba-Pérez and Rocío Patiño-AgudoThe medical advances have increased life expectancy in most countries. Seniors are the group that has greatly noticed this progress. The university cannot ignore this profound social change. New degrees of Spanish universities should include content related to this group to open new professional opportunities for graduates, mainly degrees directly related to the information society and information technologies and communication such as the degree of information sciences. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to adapt the current degree of Information Sciences from the University of Extremadura to new professional opportunities. To this end, specialized contents in seniors are designed for a total of 40 subjects. These contents do not replace the existing, but added to them, being extrapolated to other university studies in information and documentation beyond our geographical boundaries.

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“…Algunos informes advierten de las especiales dificultades de las comunidades rurales (LaRose, Gregg, Strover, Straubhaar & Carpenter, 2007;Novo-Corti, VarelaCandamio & García-Álvarez, 2014) y de las personas mayores (Braun, 2013;Dias, 2012) en el acceso y uso de las tecnologías, señalando los múltiples factores que pueden incidir en su exclusión digital. Los últimos informes en España (Plan de Inclusión Digital y Empleabilidad, 2013) indican que sólo el 62% de la población accede de forma regular a Internet, lo que supone que casi un 40% de los ciudadanos no accede a las TIC, de los cuales el 22,7% no ha usado nunca Internet suponiendo el mayor porcentaje en este grupo las personas entre 55 y 64 años, lo que indica la existencia de una brecha generacional.…”

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Motivaciones de uso de las redes sociales para el desarrollo del capital social de las mujeres de entorno rural

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Vico-Bosch

Catalán

2015

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“…The distinctions become further blurred as users "cross-post" (post the same content across different social media) or embed links within one platform to another. Though much has been written about the use of social media by senior citizens to maintain social connections with family and friends (e.g., Facebook, Skype, and email) (see, e.g., Braun 2013;Dewing 2010;Doyle and Goldingay 2012;Martyn and Gallant 2012), little is known about seniors citizens' use of social media in advocacy work. Persson and Berg (2009) emphasize the importance of voice channels for influencing the decision-making process.…”

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Social media and senior citizen advocacy: an inclusive tool to resist ageism?

Trentham

Sokoloff

Tsang

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With population aging, interest groups demand that governments act to prevent a perceived financial crisis. Senior citizens remain frustrated in their efforts to influence the response of policy-makers. In an effort to strengthen their voice, one group of senior citizens, engaged in a participatory action research project, questioned how online social media could be used in their advocacy efforts. This query led to an examination of the literature with the primary objective of determining what is known about the use of social media by senior citizens for the purposes of social advocacy. The outcomes of the review revealed that very few studies specifically examined this question. Senior citizen online roles were depicted as consumers of health information or socializers with family and friends. Ageist assumptions informed the design of computer hardware, online formats and norms for social engagement. Senior citizens have concerns about the trustworthiness of social networking sites and while social media can exclude senior citizens from public debate, the authors conclude that the pressing issue is to focus on age-friendly design and supports. With these in place, social media can provide a venue for senior citizens to challenge ageism and influence public policy discourses.Keywords: social media; ageism; senior citizenship; advocacy; political activism IntroductionThe questions examined in this paper arose from discussions with a group of senior citizen activists involved in the participatory action research project (PAR), Exercising Senior Citizenship in an Ageist Society, under the facilitation of the first author and fourth author. This group of senior citizens (the term "senior citizen" used advisedly to convey seniors as participants in valued social roles who hold the rights and responsibilities of citizens) is actively involved in advocacy work focused on the provision of adequate supportive home services within the province of Ontario, Canada. In their efforts to be heard, the group is exploring the use of social media as a tool and venue to give voice to their message. Early on, one of the senior members and long-time activist (age 93) expressed frustration with the increasing use of online technologies for communication and advocacy work, which she experiences as a form of social exclusion. She lamented that while younger people grew up with this technology, many older adults are left "in a void" © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http:// creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. *Corresponding author. Email: b.trentham@utoronto.ca Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2015 Vol. 3, No. 3, 558-571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2015 and at a disadvantage when it comes t...

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Obstacles to social networking website use among older adults

Cited by 277 publications

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La formación de profesionales universitarios en información y documentación desde una nueva perspectiva: la tercera edad

La formación de profesionales universitarios en información y documentación desde una nueva perspectiva: la tercera edad

Motivaciones de uso de las redes sociales para el desarrollo del capital social de las mujeres de entorno rural

Social media and senior citizen advocacy: an inclusive tool to resist ageism?

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