TY - CHAP
T1 - “You Don’t Need Instagram, It’s for Young People”: Intergenerational Relationships and ICTs Learning Among Older Adults
AU - Carlo, Simone
AU - Bonifacio, Francesco
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The present research focuses on the problems connected to digital literacy for the elderly and on moments of intergenerational learning. The paper presents the main results of an ethnographic research carried out for a course on the risks related to the unintentional use of ICTs. The course took place in March 2019, involving 60 seniors as attendees and 25 students from a secondary school in a small town in the north of Italy as lecturers. The research seems to remark the importance of the context where the encounters between younger and older people take place. Overall, our observations do not indicate that intergenerational learning is useless per se, nor they suggest that it is not successful at all. The joining of different generations always raises symbolic challenges in terms of social recognition. What appears clear from our observations is that placing an intergenerational training in a classroom is not sufficient in itself to transform young students in teachers. It neither puts older people in the correct disposition to feel like students again.
AB - The present research focuses on the problems connected to digital literacy for the elderly and on moments of intergenerational learning. The paper presents the main results of an ethnographic research carried out for a course on the risks related to the unintentional use of ICTs. The course took place in March 2019, involving 60 seniors as attendees and 25 students from a secondary school in a small town in the north of Italy as lecturers. The research seems to remark the importance of the context where the encounters between younger and older people take place. Overall, our observations do not indicate that intergenerational learning is useless per se, nor they suggest that it is not successful at all. The joining of different generations always raises symbolic challenges in terms of social recognition. What appears clear from our observations is that placing an intergenerational training in a classroom is not sufficient in itself to transform young students in teachers. It neither puts older people in the correct disposition to feel like students again.
KW - Aging and social media
KW - Aging and technology acceptance
KW - Generational differences in IT use
KW - Training the elderly in the use of IT
KW - Aging and social media
KW - Aging and technology acceptance
KW - Generational differences in IT use
KW - Training the elderly in the use of IT
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/162047
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-50232-4_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-50232-4_3
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-030-50231-7
T3 - LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
SP - 29
EP - 41
BT - Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12209. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50232-4_3
A2 - Gao Q., Zhou J.
ER -