Aging in place in a mobile world: New media and older people’s support networks

Baldassar, Loretta; Wilding, Raelene; Boccagni, Paolo; Merla, Laura

doi:10.1080/21931674.2016.1277864

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“…To return to the moral and development practices mentioned in the previous section, combined with ways of opposing forms of ICT-based co-presence, we get a sense of how disconnection might be used to capture and explore the diverse experiences people have of the intensification of technologies 22 and the new methods for self-protection. Disconnection raised essential questions about the renegotiation of social absence and presence, as well as about emerging support networks mediated by ICTs, particularly for globally mobile and ageing communities (Baldassar et al, 2017). To put it differently, information regulation was seen as offering a wholly inadequate and partial response, the result of which, for many of our participants, was a more emphatic launching into a state of concerted disconnection.…”

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Disconnected: Non-Users of Information Communication Technologies

Hardey

Atkinson

2018

Sociological Research Online

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Growing concern about the impact of constant, mediated connection has often focused on the ways in which technologies contribute to a ubiquitous sense of presence and interaction, and the kind of invasion that this may represent to a sense of self and privacy. Discussion about information communication technologies (ICTs) is increasingly converging around the need for a deepened understanding of their effect on pace of life, methods of work, consumption and wellbeing. Counter-narratives to overwhelming hyper-connectivity have emerged as a result of these changes. Using qualitative interview data from respondents recruited from across the globe, we focus on the strategies and worldviews of those who explicitly reject the use of any ICTs. Our participants relate how, to varying degrees, they have elected to avoid forms of immediate connection, and what they identify as the deep advantages and therapeutic benefits of such ways of being. The article responds to rising social anxieties about being locked into ICT ecologies, and the difficulty of opting out of corporate information-exchange systems. These concerns, we argue, are generating increasing interest in how to manage ICTs more effectively, or to switch off altogether.

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“…The lack of technology seems to be an appealing way to introduce new ideas around how cultural capital changes concerning face-to-face proximity (Baldassar et al, 2017). That we allowed for the slow emergence of communication with our respondents was essential to supporting their new ideas around disconnection.…”

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Disconnected: Non-Users of Information Communication Technologies

Hardey

Atkinson

2018

Sociological Research Online

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“…Besides visits, phone calls and the sending of gifts and money, new information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become constitutive modes of transnational grandparenting (Baldassar et al 2017). There is a general consensus that ICTs have changed the migration experience, offering new avenues for virtual modes of co-presence and potentially creating new functions and changes in the nature of family relationships (Bacigalupe and Lambe 2011;Baldassar 2008;Wilding 2006).…”

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Transnational aging: toward a transnational perspective in old age research

Horn

Schweppe

2017

Eur J Ageing

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“…This has taken place chiefly through a flurry of edited volumes and special issues (e.g., Baldassar et al., ; Ciobanu & Hunter, ; Ciobanu et al., ; Horn & Schweppe, ; Horn et al., ; Karl & Torres, ; Lawrence & Torres, ; Näre et al., ; Torres & Lawrence, ; Walsh & Näre, ; Warnes & Williams, ; Zubair & Norris, ). Fruitful discussions have developed on the diversity of older migrants (Warnes et al., ), transnational ageing (Horn & Schweppe, ), identities and everyday practices in older age (Näre et al., ), elderly care (Baldassar et al., ), ageing in ethnic minority or transcultural contexts (Zubair & Norris, ), ageing and the new media (Baldassar et al., ), and policy implications of ageing as a migrant (Ciobanu et al., ). Notwithstanding their thematic richness, these analyses have, for the most part, failed to fully engage with the spatial dimensions of the ageing–migration nexus.…”

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Geographies of the ageing–migration nexus: An introduction

Sampaio

King

Walsh

2018

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This special section builds on previous scholarship on geographies of ageing, and on relational and transnational approaches to age and migration, to assert the significance of the ageing-migration nexus in human geography. Our primary goal is to examine the intricate relationships between ageing, migration, space and place. By bringing empirical research on ageing and migration into dialogue with existing conceptual work within Geography, we also aim to critically contribute to current debates in both areas. The contributors explore a wide range of migration processes and experiences through an intersectional lens, and demonstrate the importance of a diverse set of epistemological and methodological approaches to explore the spatialities of the ageing-migration nexus. Key dimensions examined include, but are not limited to, the spaces and places of ageing and migration, the multi-scalar nature of the geographies of the ageing-migration nexus, their (im)mobilities, fluid boundaries, and emotional geographies.ageing, geography, intersectionality, migration, place, spaceThe intersections between ageing and migration have profound geographic resonance. In this special section, we seek to illuminate emplaced meanings of age and ageing, and related (im)mobilities, produced over space and time, demonstrating that place is more than a mere "container" of older people (Andrews et al., 2007;Pain et al., 2000). Existing research allows us to map out these crossings in three substantive areas of concern, relevant for both academic work and policymaking: the increasing diversity of ageing migrants in all parts of the globe, both internally and across borders, and related social, cultural, economic, health and welfare-specific challenges; the multiplicity of ageing landscapes and the nuanced nature of migrants' home-unmaking practices, social and intimate relationships in later life, ageing cultures and ageing care; and the interstitial dimensions and individual subjectivities that mould prescribed experiences of age and ageing, and their varied entitlements across the world.We argue that it is by looking at the spaces and places of our everyday lives, both relationally and transnationally, that the ageing experience as an ongoing, (im)mobile, social project can be further understood. Pertinent questions that this special section addresses include the following. What are the implications of (trans)national migration for ageing as both an embodied and emplaced experience? How does geographical mobility impact migrants' wellbeing in later life? Do older migrants' ideas about age and ageing shift across space and time? How is ageing care articulated across borders and what are the consequent challenges for migrants and non-migrants? In what ways are later-life identities and home-making experiences shaped at different social and spatial scales? How is privilege, accumulated over the life course, enacted in new geographical contexts? And, how are migrants' social and intimate relationships shaped by their (im)mobilities and empla...

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Aging in place in a mobile world: New media and older people’s support networks

Cited by 33 publications

References 35 publications

Disconnected: Non-Users of Information Communication Technologies

Disconnected: Non-Users of Information Communication Technologies

Transnational aging: toward a transnational perspective in old age research

Geographies of the ageing–migration nexus: An introduction

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