Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 288 pp.
Contains index
Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
ISBN 978-1-000-90479-6 (pdf); 978-1-032-39214-1 (pbk)
CC BY
"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 technologies and in the actual algorithms and datasets that constitute them. It also shows how individuals and institutions deal with digital ageism in everyday life. In the past decades, digital technologies permeated most aspects of everyday life. With a focus on how age is represented and experienced in relation to digital technologies leading to digital ageism, digitalisation's reinforcement of spirals of exclusion and loss of autonomy of some collectives is explored, when it could be natural for a great part of society and represent a sort of improvement." (Publisher description)
Digital Ageism in data societies / Andrea Rosales, Jakob Svensson, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, 1
1 "Forever young?". Digital technology, ageism, and the (non-) ideal user / Francesca Comunello, Simone Mulargia and Francesca Ieracitano, 18
2 Life Stage or Age? Reviewing perceptions of oldest digital technologies users / Jane Vincent, 36
3 Silicon Valley Ageism – Ideologies and Practices of Expulsion in the Technology Industry / Justyna Stypinska, Andrea Rosales and Jakob Svensson, 53
4 Technology culture as youth oriented / Jakob Svensson, 71
5 The Marketing of Technology Products for Older People: Evidence of Visual Ageism / Loredana Ivan and Eugène Loos, 88
6 Human-Computer Interaction Research on Ageism: Essential, Incipient, and Challenging / Sergio Sayago, 116
7 Age bias on the move: The case of smart mobility / Maria Sourbati, 134
8 Challenging gendered and ageing normative stereotypes on Instagram / Inês Amaral and Ana Marta M. Flores, 152
9 Technological ageism in a sheltered housing for older adults: an intersectional approach / Roser Beneito-Montagut, Andrea García-Santesmases and Daniel López-Gómez, 172
10 Coping in the culture of connectivity: how older adults make sense of living with digital ageism / Magdalena Kania-Lundholm, 192
11 Tackling ageism in sociotechnical interventions: An actor-network analysis of Digital Storytelling workshops with care home residents / Sarah Wagner and Akiko Ogawa, 210
12 Digital and personal networks: Interactions in later life. Evidence from six Latin American countries / Roxana Barrantes, Silvana Manrique and Daniela Ugarte, 229
13 Contrasting Ageism in Research on Older Adults and Digital Technologies: a Methodological Reflection / Emma Garavaglia, Alessandro Caliandro, Giulia Melis, Emanuela Sala and Daniele Zaccaria, 248
Conclusion: Production, transmission and reproduction of ageist practices / Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, 266
1 "Forever young?". Digital technology, ageism, and the (non-) ideal user / Francesca Comunello, Simone Mulargia and Francesca Ieracitano, 18
2 Life Stage or Age? Reviewing perceptions of oldest digital technologies users / Jane Vincent, 36
3 Silicon Valley Ageism – Ideologies and Practices of Expulsion in the Technology Industry / Justyna Stypinska, Andrea Rosales and Jakob Svensson, 53
4 Technology culture as youth oriented / Jakob Svensson, 71
5 The Marketing of Technology Products for Older People: Evidence of Visual Ageism / Loredana Ivan and Eugène Loos, 88
6 Human-Computer Interaction Research on Ageism: Essential, Incipient, and Challenging / Sergio Sayago, 116
7 Age bias on the move: The case of smart mobility / Maria Sourbati, 134
8 Challenging gendered and ageing normative stereotypes on Instagram / Inês Amaral and Ana Marta M. Flores, 152
9 Technological ageism in a sheltered housing for older adults: an intersectional approach / Roser Beneito-Montagut, Andrea García-Santesmases and Daniel López-Gómez, 172
10 Coping in the culture of connectivity: how older adults make sense of living with digital ageism / Magdalena Kania-Lundholm, 192
11 Tackling ageism in sociotechnical interventions: An actor-network analysis of Digital Storytelling workshops with care home residents / Sarah Wagner and Akiko Ogawa, 210
12 Digital and personal networks: Interactions in later life. Evidence from six Latin American countries / Roxana Barrantes, Silvana Manrique and Daniela Ugarte, 229
13 Contrasting Ageism in Research on Older Adults and Digital Technologies: a Methodological Reflection / Emma Garavaglia, Alessandro Caliandro, Giulia Melis, Emanuela Sala and Daniele Zaccaria, 248
Conclusion: Production, transmission and reproduction of ageist practices / Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, 266
