Older People and New Communication Technologies Narratives from the Literature

Richardson, Margaret; Zorn, Theodore E.; Weaver, C. Kay

doi:10.1080/23808985.2011.11679114

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“…What we can see in the data, then, is that seniors sometimes have problems being translated into the actor network of the 'senior user of digital technology and thus included in the information society' that the government wants to assemble. Even though Plan Ibirapitá is a very interesting policy with noble goals, such top-down approaches may not work properly because both of technical and human elements, as pointed out repeatedly by existing research (see, for example, Peine and Neven, 2018;Neven and Peine, 2017;Neven, 2015;Givskov and Deuze, 2018;Richardson et al, 2011).…”

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“…That is why this research brings forward the insight that technology could be assessed according to the extent to which it enables individuals to participate in society according to their own needs in spite of dominating discourses (Richardson et al, 2011;. In the case of my participants, for example, they responded to a socially technooptimistic narrative that was not really reflected in their own daily practices.…”

Section: Techno-circumstance As a Framework For Use And Non-usementioning

confidence: 95%

“…A good way of bringing attention to rejection and non-use is, as Sally Wyatt et al people in fact are agents who understand technology in different ways and negotiate its meaning rather than being passive recipients whose lives will be solely positively improved by technology (Richardson e al., 2011). This leads them to sometimes reject technology.…”

Section: Seniors and Non-usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existing literature has pointed out a gap in the knowledge about the way seniors understand technology and how they make sense out of it (Richardson et al, 2011). Hagberg (2004: 162) I suggest that even though my participants seem to be responding to a sociotechnical imaginary (Jasanoff, 2015;Jasanoff and Kim, 2009;Jasanoff et al, 2007) that frames their discourse in techno-optimist terms, they are active constructors of their technological circumstance by using and rejecting the tablet -as well as other ICTaccording to how they understand their life and how they deal with their circumstances.…”

Section: Techno-circumstance As a Framework For Use And Non-usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, it is not my intention to do either an extensive nor exhaustive summary of the literature, as other researchers provide excellent reviews of the state of the art (e.g., Battersby et al, 2016;Richardson, Weaver and Zorn, 2011;Frankel and Bisson, 2008;Blaschke, Freddolino and Mullen, 2009;Kim, 2008;White et al 1999 technology on their own terms and to decide its role within their lives (Selwyn, 2006(Selwyn, , 2003Knowles and Hanson, 2018).…”

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Ageing and Technology: the case of a one-tablet-per-senior program in Uruguay

Castleton¹

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This thesis examines the relationship between older persons and technology, focusing on a one-tablet-per-retired-senior public program -Plan Ibirapitá-being developed in Uruguay. It is situated within recent Science and Technology Studies (STS)-inspired research on aging and technology that has stressed that older people and technology are co-constructed or co-constituted, namely, that rather than being technologically-averse, older people negotiate with technology in specific contexts. This thesis also uses the philosophical reflections of José Ortega y Gasset on the relationship between self, circumstance and life as a que-hacer (having-to-do), suggesting that it could provide new means of conceptualizing the relationship between older people and technology, emphasizing the agency of the former. Within this framework, this thesis is the product of a qualitative research design through which I interviewed Uruguayan seniors who received the tablet. My research found that there is a prevailing techno-optimist discourse that frames technologies, such as the tablets distributed under Plan Ibirapitá, as an intrinsically good and necessary thing for seniors' lives that my research participants rhetorically embraced but was not reflected in their actual usage of the tablet. Such a program is valuable insofar it provides digital access to a population -older peoplethat theoretically suffers the consequences of the digital divide. However, exclusion from the information society may not be a problem for many seniors. I suggest that seniors should be conceptualized as agents who actively decide the role that technology plays in their lives and for whom being included in the information society means different things according to their individual context. I also suggest that it is necessary to focus on how iii seniors relate to digital technology precisely as part of their circumstances, and how they understand being digitally included or excluded themselves.iv

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Section: Techno-circumstance As a Framework For Use And Non-usementioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Seniors and Non-usementioning

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Section: Techno-circumstance As a Framework For Use And Non-usementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Ageing and Technology: the case of a one-tablet-per-senior program in Uruguay

Castleton¹

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Social networking sites and older users – a systematic review

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Ganea

Müri

et al. 2013

Int. Psychogeriatr.

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Background: Social networking sites can be beneficial for senior citizens to promote social participation and to enhance intergenerational communication. Particularly for older adults with impaired mobility, social networking sites can help them to connect with family members and other active social networking users. The aim of this systematic review is to give an overview of existing scientific literature on social networking in older users.

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‘For older folks like me, these things are over us…’: The challenge of embedding tablet computers in everyday life within a geriatric hospital in Uruguay

Castleton

Cid

Silva

2020

Educational Gerontology

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Much research has focused on the introduction of information and communication technology (ICTs) into the lives of older people, but it has generally understood them as external factors who act as a sort of independent variable that impacts the seniors' lives. There remains a dearth of empirical research into how aging and technology are co-constructed, namely, research that focuses on older people's relationship to technology as a socio-technical network. We therefore contribute to this field by analyzing the development and establishment of a network in a geriatric hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay. Uruguay has been developing a one-tablet computer-per low-income-senior policy since 2015. In this research, we deployed a qualitative ethnographic research comprised of semi-structured interviews, jottings, and field notes where we explore the adoption of tablets within the corresponding actornetwork. Our findings suggest that objectively, not only was the establishment of the sociotechnical network rife with complexities, disruptions, and fissures, but subjectively, seniors in the hospital were heavily influenced by their selfperception of the potentialities of ICTs.

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Older People and New Communication Technologies Narratives from the Literature

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Ageing and Technology: the case of a one-tablet-per-senior program in Uruguay

Ageing and Technology: the case of a one-tablet-per-senior program in Uruguay

Social networking sites and older users – a systematic review

‘For older folks like me, these things are over us…’: The challenge of embedding tablet computers in everyday life within a geriatric hospital in Uruguay

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