Alt und offline?

Seifert, Alexander; Schelling, Hans Rudolf

doi:10.1007/s00391-015-0965-1

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“…In particular, older citizens are more often "digitally excluded" as a result of lacking access to the Internet [6]. Only 55% of individuals aged 65 or older are internet users, according to investigations reporting on developments in some European countries [4,21,22], while around 80% of the entire European population uses the internet [23]. While the number of older people who regularly use the internet has increased over the last years [4], there is still significant scope to encourage other older people to become regular internet users.…”

Section: Digital Adoption By Elderly Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Digital media thus have the ability to facilitate social inclusion and empower elderly people [24]. A telephone survey with 1000 people aged 65 and older in Switzerland revealed that individuals with "a high affinity of technology will presumably use the Internet to cope with everyday life" more than others [4]. Due to the fact that a considerable part of the older population is still not familiar with digital technologies, it becomes necessary to look for relevant aspects to help and encourage this particular user group to adopt digital practices and competencies [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The older population is a heterogeneous group [2] with differences in access to digital information [3]. While digital adoption is rising also in this group [4], the digital spectrum [5] still includes a group of older citizens that tend to be unfamiliar with the use of new digital devices [6]. Keeping up with rapidly developing technologies and the adjacent pace of life can be quite challenging for them [7,8].…”

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Game-playing as an effective learning resource for elderly people: encouraging experiential adoption of touchscreen technologies

Oppl

Stary

2018

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Elderly people often struggle to keep up with digital advancements, particularly given the fast pace of such developments and the increasing need to interact with novel devices in everyday life. To include elderly people in ongoing socio-technological developments, we aim to overcome the barriers to learning and adoption such older adults may face. In this contribution, we set the methodological stage for an interactive game-playing approach using touchscreen tablets. By using games in learning settings, we encourage elderly people in digital adoption and skill development. In a first study, a video analysis of game-playing sessions and active learning support were performed. Although approaches that combine game-playing with learning could encourage elderly people to become an integral part of a technologically advancing society, the facilitation of interaction processes in individual and collective gaming seems to be crucial. We report on the performed field study and provide methodological suggestions for investigating digital media adoption.

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Section: Digital Adoption By Elderly Peoplementioning

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Section: Digital Adoption By Elderly Peoplementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Game-playing as an effective learning resource for elderly people: encouraging experiential adoption of touchscreen technologies

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Stary

2018

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“…Older adults use the internet at increasing rates [ 14 , 23 ]. In Switzerland, 32% of older adults report having a smartphone and 26% own a tablet computer [ 24 ].…”

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Digitalization and the Social Lives of Older Adults: Protocol for a Microlongitudinal Study

Macdonald

Hülür

2020

JMIR Res Protoc

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Background Digital technologies are increasingly pervading our daily lives. Although older adults started using digital technologies later than other age groups, they are increasingly adopting these technologies, especially with the goal of communicating with others. However, less is known about how online social activities are embedded in older adults’ daily lives, how they complement other (offline) social activities, and how they contribute to social connectedness and well-being. Objective Data generated by this project will allow us to understand how older adults use digital communication in their daily lives to communicate with others, how this relates to well-being and social connectedness, and how communication using digital technologies differs from other types of communication depending on situational and individual characteristics. Methods Microlongitudinal data were collected from 120 older adults from German-speaking regions of Switzerland to examine these questions. Data collection took place from April 2019 to October 2019. Data collection took place over different time scales, including event-based (reporting all social interactions for 21 days), daily (well-being, loneliness, and technology use every evening for 21 days), hourly (cortisol assessments 6 times per day for 3 days), and baseline (relevant interindividual characteristics, including sociodemographics, health, technology use, personality, and cognitive performance) assessments. Results Data collection for this study was completed in November 2019. Participants reported an average of 96.35 interactions across the 21 days. Among the total 11,453 interactions, 5494 (47.97%) were face-to-face, and around 16% each were interactions by phone (1858, 16.16%), email (1858, 16.22%), and text message (1853, 16.18%). Otherwise, 246 (2.15%) of the interactions took place on social media, 96 (0.84)% were letters, and 54 (0.47%) of the interactions took place on videochat. Conclusions Participants used a variety of modalities in their daily communication, including digital means such as text messages, email, and video calls. Further analysis will provide more detail as to the role that communication via digital media plays in older adults’ daily lives. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) RR1-10.2196/20306

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“…Peral-Peral et al (2015) even go so far as to speak of a "psycho-digital divide" (p. 57), arguing that preferences, beliefs and perceived constraints explain more about technology acceptance than socio-structural variables like income or education (Seifert and Schelling, 2016).…”

Section: Rational Choice Theories: Technology Acceptance In Later Lifementioning

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Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging With Technology

Wanka

Gallistl

2018

Front. Sociol.

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Digital technologies have gained vast relevance in postmodern societies and digital infrastructures are substantially integrated into the everyday lives of older people. This digitization is reframing the norms and practices of later life as well as the social construct of age itself. Despite the increasing amount of studies in the field of aging and technologies, it still lacks theorizing. This paper addresses this deficit, suggesting that the study of aging and technologies could profit from a comprehensive integration of theories from the sociology of aging, critical gerontology, and science-and-technology studies. We aim to make a theoretical contribution to this issue, asking: how is age being done in a digitized world? Applying a praxeological approach to aging and technologies, we firstly examine how theoretical and empirical work has constructed aging with technologies so far and identify its shortcomings. Some of this work so far lacks a proper consideration of social inequalities within these processes, whereas other studies lack a thorough consideration of materialities. Secondly, in an attempt to equally "praxeologize" and "materialize" the study of aging and technologies we develop a theoretical model that aims to overcome these shortcomings. In what we frame as a material praxeology of aging with technology, we are concerned with how age is being done through discursive formations, set into practice through social and material practices and involved in the (re)production of social inequalities. Enriching a Bordieuan terminology of social fields with notions of non-human agency, this praxeology is founded on three assumptions: (1) Social fields constitute the contexts in which age as a social phenomenon is being done with and through technologies (2) Human and non-human agents are equally involved in this process (3) The actions of the involved agents emerge from an agency distributed among them, and are structured through the power relations between them. Thirdly, we exemplify the application of this model by reference to a research project in the field of Active and Assistive Living.

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Alt und offline?

Abstract: Internet usage among elderly people depends on individual and social resources, as well as on general attitude towards technology and personal benefit expectations. The exclusion of today's elderly "offliners" should be avoided, even if the digital divide will decrease in the future.

Cited by 31 publications

References 19 publications

Game-playing as an effective learning resource for elderly people: encouraging experiential adoption of touchscreen technologies

Game-playing as an effective learning resource for elderly people: encouraging experiential adoption of touchscreen technologies

Digitalization and the Social Lives of Older Adults: Protocol for a Microlongitudinal Study

Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging With Technology

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