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Elderly People: Internet & Social Media Use
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Elderly People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Elderly People: Tailored ICTs & Media
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Elderly People: Media Use
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Mobile Phone Use: Elderly People
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Cybercultures
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Digital Inclusion
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Older Adults (General)
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Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Advertising
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Social Movements: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Audience Feedback, Interaction & Participation
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Audience Segmentation, User Typologies, Personas
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Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
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Comics, Cartoons, Caricatures
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Storytelling
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Internet
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Instagram
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Documentation Systems
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Training
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Media Literacy: Elderly People
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Women's Magazines, Women's Press
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Counselling
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Mental Health Reporting & Media Representation
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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People with Disabilities: Tailored ICT & Media Products
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Trade Unions & Labor Movements: Communication Strategies
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Digital Wellbeing, Digital Resilience, Digital Mental Health
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Rural Areas, Rural Communities, Rural Development
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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"Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We fin ... more
"Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones and mobile phones on older people’s health and everyday lives as part of the global 'Anthropolog ... more
"Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two coun ... more
"This anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital ... more

ICT and Active Ageing

Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2023), ix, 115 pp.
"With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil show ... more
"Die Generation der ab 60-Jährigen weist eine sehr heterogene Mediennutzung auf. Höchste Alltagsrelevanz besitzt das lineare Fernsehen. Während ein Großteil der Senioren regelmäßig online ist, zählt rund jeder Fünfte zu den Offlinern. Es zeigen sich starke Zusammenhänge zwischen soziodemogr ... more
"O presente estudo dialoga com lideranças e com grupos que se encontram na base das organizações sociais: os militantes e ativistas . A inclusão de ativistas e militantes na investigação, como ocorreu na 1ª Etapa da Pesquisa, em 2021, permitiu olhar os dois lados dos processos de representati ... more
"Worldwide, it is anticipated that care needs of older populations will outstrip available resources. Sub-Saharan Africa lacks relevant long-term care systems for older persons, and technology could play a crucial role in supporting families, communities and government in vital care management. This ... more

Media Guidelines for Reporting on Ageing and Older Age

Centre for Ageing Better (2022), 8 pp.
"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the ... more
"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions ... more
"Ageing in a digital world – from vulnerable to valuable" is the first- ever report to be produced by ITU to raise awareness in the ICT sector on the importance of being prepared to respond to the needs and requirements of ageing populations. This is essential to fulfil our pledge to ‘’leave n ... more
"Die SIM-Studie stellt einen grundlegenden Situationsbericht zum Medienumgang Älterer in Deutschland mit einem speziellen Fokus auf digitale Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien dar. Hierfür wurde im Zeitraum vom 22. März bis 31. Mai 2021 eine repräsentative Stichprobe von 3000 Personen ... more
"The aim of this study was to advance understanding of how to foster media literacy among older people. A systematic review was conducted of 40 empirical studies published between January 2005 and April 2019. The literature review provided information and practical implications for researchers, desi ... more
"The Expert Commission for the Eighth Government Report on Older People has identified the digital technologies relevant to several areas of life, singled out emerging new developments and assessed how such developments are having an impact on life in old age. The publication summarises the Commissi ... more
"The ICT User Typology categorizes older adults’ ICT use into one of five user types, each of which has a unique pattern of ICT introduction, use, display, and meaning they ascribe to technologies: The Enthusiast user type thinks ICTs and other forms of technology are great fun toys. They have won ... more

La vejez en las noticias

Bogotá: Fundación para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI);Red Latinoamericana de Gerontología (RLG) (2017), 45 pp.
"Para hacer un periodismo adecuado, justo con la vejez, es necesario reconocer a las personas viejas no solo con su pasado, sino con su presente y con su futuro, teniendo en cuenta su gran diversidad, porque constituyen el grupo etáreo más heterogéneo que existe. Informaremos bien sobre la vejez ... more

Social Media and Elderly People: Research Trends

In: SCSM 2017: Social Computing and Social Media. Applications and Analytics. Part II, LNCS 10283
G. Meiselwitz (ed.)
Cham: Springer (2017), pp. 65-81
"This paper reports the result of a systematic literature review in the field of social media and the elderly. Our study included 36 research papers, selected after an iterative process. Elders are the fastest growing population around the world and any effort oriented to improve their quality of li ... more