Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

Givskov, Cecilie

doi:10.1177/1367549417708431

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“…Age relations and choices in the technological landscape have similarly been overlooked in media and ICT research (Hagberg 2012: 101-02;Givskov 2017) as older people are frequently treated as a 'residual category' encompassing all ages above 50 or 60 years (Friemel 2016: 326). Research attention to relationships of inequality, stratification age hierarchies and intersectional orders of identity remains rare (Calasanti and King 2011).…”

Section: Older People As the Homogenous Othermentioning

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Interfacing age: Diversity and (in)visibility in digital public service

Sourbati

Loos

2019

Journal of Digital Media &Amp; Policy

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This article revisits the concepts of ‘diversity’ and ‘visibility’, from the perspective of age relations to consider how these key metrics in the assessment of social inclusion through media representation can be usefully applied to the analysis of digital public service interfaces. Against the backdrop of changes in the age composition of populations, and an expanding role of digital media in ‘digital by default’ public service provision age remains a neglected dimension of social inequality in media and communications research. This article investigates questions of diversity and social inclusion in old age drawing on a study of visual imagery in public sector websites in the United Kingdom. The analysis integrates insights from media, technology studies, communications policy and critical social gerontology. We identify three patterns in visual imagery: (1) stereotypical representations of group membership as homogenous in terms of age groups, sex, health status and ethnicity, with older adults typically represented as white, (un)healthy men or women; (2) new visibilities, of older adults as socially and culturally diverse groups; and (3) new approaches to inclusive digital service design where age becomes an invisible social demographic. We discuss implications for policy and research into diversity, digitalization and digital public service interfaces.

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Section: Older People As the Homogenous Othermentioning

confidence: 99%

Interfacing age: Diversity and (in)visibility in digital public service

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Loos

2019

Journal of Digital Media &Amp; Policy

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“…The situation we faced can be understood as symptomatic of a wider lack of data on digital media and technology and its use in relation to age. Information about the media lives of older people (Givskov, 2018;Hagberg, 2012;Taipale et al, 2018) is too often absent within national statistics 1 (Eurostat, n.d.;Ivan, 2017), communications and media research (Vincent, 2017), commercial surveys and qualitative panels due to bias in study design research protocols and funding schemes (Fernández-Ardèvol et al, 2019). According to an EU-wide mapping of data sources about older populations in Europe (Data Mapping Project, n.d.), datasets on ICT use comprise data that are general in nature, and do not include service-or app-specific information.…”

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“…Digitally mediated experiences are inseparably integrated into our everydayness and experience of growing older: '[I]n as much as everyday life has become mediatized the experience of growing old also takes place with and through media technology' (Givskov, 2018). In times of 'deep mediatization' (Breiter and Hepp, 2018: 388) we, as individuals, collectivities or organisations 'cannot not leave digital traces' (Merzeau, 2009: 4).…”

Section: Discussion: Data Public Policy Old Age and Social Exclusionmentioning

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Smart mobility, age and data justice

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Behrendt

2020

New Media & Society

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This article examines converging trends in ageing, digitalisation and datafication in the context of mobility and transport. While mobility data are increasingly captured by (public) transport and mobility as a service (MaaS) providers, Internet of Things (IoT) vehicles, apps and so on, the increasing entanglement of mobility and datafication happens unevenly, for example, in relation to age. This is particularly significant in the light of the rise of data-driven policy-making, and its potential impacts on mobility provision for older people. The article highlights new questions for public policy around data gaps and social inclusion and examines them through a UK case study. The results show that old age and mobility is an area with significant gaps in the data available to policy makers. A key recommendation is for commissioning bodies to develop a strategic approach to structured data gathering and analysis that addresses issues of exclusion from smart public service infrastructure.

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Growing Old with Mediatization

Givskov¹

2017

Nordicom Review

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Computers, tablets, smartphones and mobile phones enable people to act across contexts. For individuals born during the first half of the twentieth century, these social infrastructures for agency arrived late in the life course. This article presents an analysis of a set of interviews that were thematically coded to reveal ways in which the infrastructures figured in reflexive practices among older single-dwelling women. The interviews were patterned by the shared image of a ‘media world’ and the hypothesis of the indispensability of newer media for living a socially integrated life in today’s society. Control of media connected with feelings of dis- or empowerment; ultimately media amplified the participants’ feelings of being autonomous actors. I argue that the newer media infrastructures extend the scope and need for reflexivity and augment the reflexive ageing associated with the continued activity and autonomy of the third age.

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Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing

Cited by 3 publications

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Interfacing age: Diversity and (in)visibility in digital public service

Interfacing age: Diversity and (in)visibility in digital public service

Smart mobility, age and data justice

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