The Elderly, IT and the Public Discourse. Representations of Exclusion and Inclusion

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the political and institutional trends that foster digital literacy among seniors, and the forms it takes in both the public discourses and the concrete practices of teaching seniors how to use information technologies (IT). IT often recur as an essential element in the discourses that stress the importance of an active, healthy and independent aging, as well as the need for mechanisms that reduce potential isolation and exclusion of seniors. Nonetheless, the inconsistency of these different discourses makes it hard to represent the older people using IT in a clear, convincing and believable way.
Lingua originaleEnglish
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteHuman Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging
EditorGavriel Salvendy Jia Zhou
Pagine176-185
Numero di pagine10
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2016

Keywords

  • Aging
  • Information Technology
  • Training the elderly in the use of IT Digital agenda
  • digital literacy

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