Social isolation is a problem facing many older women. Isolation can contribute to poor health as adults age without social support. Increased and tailored communication offers service organizations more opportunities to provide social support to these adults. This research examines perceptions of aging to explore communication behaviors, barriers, and opportunities for improved communication and service provision for aging women. Using data from focus groups and interviews, this study finds that participants from community organizations rely on word of mouth and traditional media to communicate with their aging constituents, despite opportunities to use digital communication and to develop communication plans for this population.

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In her fiercely imaginative approach to the state of transnational media and its global audiences, Fabienne Darling-Wolf's book Imagining the Global employs a three-way comparison of France, Japan, and the United States to analyze culture consumption and essentialized myths. Each is chosen specifically for her attempt to-as the title suggests-move beyond dichotomized conceptualizations of East and West, or the United States and "the rest." Via a series of five case studies of popular globally distributed media products, Darling-Wolf digs deeply into how transnational media are produced and received by consumers at "home" and around the world.Darling-Wolf uniquely positions herself as a part of the global group she studies. She identifies as a citizen at heart of the three locales as a result of spending years of her life personally or professionally in each of them. This perspective serves as a unique lens for her research questions. And her empirical framework illuminates the intersections of geography, race, gender, and class along the way as they relate to how popular texts, genres, and formats are adapted to a variety of environments. Her study of each environment resonates with narratives of remarkable depth thanks to her informants with whom, such as in Japan, she has been in relationship with since graduate school. Combining fieldwork methods of in-depth interviewing with over 160 consumers, extensive participant observation, and long-term cultural engagement in each country, Darling-Wolf sought out to and successfully tells the story of consumers' lived experiences in the nexus of local/national/global media.The book's introduction sets up a theoretical basis for looking at global media products and how they are perceived by consumers. Citing scholarship from Arjun Appadurai, Ne´stor Garcı´a Canclini, Marwan M. Kraidy, and Radhika Parameswaran among others, Darling-Wolf theorizes her multi-sited, translocal approach while committing to wearing her theory lightly and avoiding the theoretical hyperbole of globalization studies past. Using five cases-vocal and dance talent shows, newspaper journalism, fashion magazines, hip-hop music, and anime and manga-Darling-Wolf considers how consumers develop their

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