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ICT and Active Ageing
Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2023), ix, 115 pp.
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
London: UCL Press (2023), xviii, 291 pp.
"Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We fin
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Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the Dotcom Age
London: UCL Press (2023), xvii, 215 pp.
"Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones and mobile phones on older people’s health and everyday lives as part of the global 'Anthropolog
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The Experience of Peruvian Migrants
London: UCL Press (2023), xiii, 193 pp.
"Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two coun
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Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 288 pp.
"This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital
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Medienumgang von Menschen ab 60 Jahren: Ergebnisse der SIM-Studie 2021
Media Perspektiven, issue 7-8 (2022), pp. 389-402
"Die Generation der ab 60-Jährigen weist eine sehr heterogene Mediennutzung auf. Höchste Alltagsrelevanz besitzt das lineare Fernsehen. Während ein Großteil der Senioren regelmäßig online ist, zählt rund jeder Fünfte zu den Offlinern. Es zeigen sich starke Zusammenhänge zwischen soziodemogr
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A Work in Progress
London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 275 pp.
"With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil show
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Democracia e representatividade: Novas formas de representação diante da transformação digital 2022. Um estudo sobre grupos fragilizados e lideranças
São Paulo: Instituto Lula; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 143 pp.
"O presente estudo dialoga com lideranças e com grupos que se encontram na base das organizações sociais: os militantes e ativistas . A inclusão de ativistas e militantes na investigação, como ocorreu na 1ª Etapa da Pesquisa, em 2021, permitiu olhar os dois lados dos processos de representati
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Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa: A Developing Country Perspective
Cham: Springer (2022), xxi, 257 pp.
"Worldwide, it is anticipated that care needs of older populations will outstrip available resources. Sub-Saharan Africa lacks relevant long-term care systems for older persons, and technology could play a crucial role in supporting families, communities and government in vital care management. This
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Ageing and the Media: International Perspectives
Bristol: Policy Press (2022), 234 pp.
"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions
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Media Guidelines for Reporting on Ageing and Older Age
Centre for Ageing Better (2022), 8 pp.
Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 346 pp.
"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the
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Ageing in a Digital World: From Vulnerable to Valuable
Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 41 pp.
"Ageing in a digital world – from vulnerable to valuable" is the first- ever report to be produced by ITU to raise awareness in the ICT sector on the importance of being prepared to respond to the needs and requirements of ageing populations. This is essential to fulfil our pledge to ‘’leave n
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SIM-Studie 2021: Senior*innen, Information, Medien. Basisuntersuchung zum Medienumgang von Personen ab 60 Jahren in Deutschland
Stuttgart: Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverbund Südwest (mpfs) (2021), 87 pp.
"Die SIM-Studie stellt einen grundlegenden Situationsbericht zum Medienumgang Älterer in Deutschland mit einem speziellen Fokus auf digitale Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien dar. Hierfür wurde im Zeitraum vom 22. März bis 31. Mai 2021 eine repräsentative Stichprobe von 3000 Personen
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Challenging Ageism: A Guide to Talking About Ageing and Older Age
Centre for Ageing Better (2021), 16 pp.
Promoting Media Literacy Among Older People: A Systematic Review
Adult Education Quarterly, volume 71, issue 1 (2021), pp. 37-54
"The aim of this study was to advance understanding of how to foster media literacy among older people. A systematic review was conducted of 40 empirical studies published between January 2005 and April 2019. The literature review provided information and practical implications for researchers, desi
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Older People and Digitisation: Findings and Recommendations from the Eighth Government Report on Older People
Berlin: Women and Youth Senior Citizens Federal Ministry for Family Affairs (2020), 53 pp.
"The Expert Commission for the Eighth Government Report on Older People has identified the digital technologies relevant to several areas of life, singled out emerging new developments and assessed how such developments are having an impact on life in old age. The publication summarises the Commissi
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Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2019), xv, 209 pp.
"The ICT User Typology categorizes older adults’ ICT use into one of five user types, each of which has a unique pattern of ICT introduction, use, display, and meaning they ascribe to technologies: The Enthusiast user type thinks ICTs and other forms of technology are great fun toys. They have won
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La vejez en las noticias
Bogotá: Fundación para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI); Red Latinoamericana de Gerontología (RLG) (2017), 45 pp.
"Para hacer un periodismo adecuado, justo con la vejez, es necesario reconocer a las personas viejas no solo con su pasado, sino con su presente y con su futuro, teniendo en cuenta su gran diversidad, porque constituyen el grupo etáreo más heterogéneo que existe. Informaremos bien sobre la vejez
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Social Media and Elderly People: Research Trends
In: SCSM 2017: Social Computing and Social Media. Applications and Analytics. Part II, LNCS 10283
G. Meiselwitz (ed.)
Cham: Springer (2017), pp. 65-81
"This paper reports the result of a systematic literature review in the field of social media and the elderly. Our study included 36 research papers, selected after an iterative process. Elders are the fastest growing population around the world and any effort oriented to improve their quality of li
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