Ageing and Technology: perspectives from the Social Sciences
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Elektronische Ressource
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Verlag:
transcript Verlag
Ort:
Bielefeld
Entstehungszeit:
2016
Sprache:
Deutsch
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Abstract:
Long description: The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. Technology, however, has largely ignored the >>human factor<< and has often viewed the ageing individual as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed - or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices.This volume aims at focusing on the subjective needs and fears of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens
Biographical note: Emma Domínguez-Rué (Dr.) teaches in the Department of English at the University of Lleida, Catalunya (Spain).Linda Nierling (Dr.), is a researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Biographical note: Emma Domínguez-Rué (Dr.) teaches in the Department of English at the University of Lleida, Catalunya (Spain).Linda Nierling (Dr.), is a researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Objekttext:
Emma Domínguez-Rué, Linda Nierling (eds.)
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Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- -- Table of Contents -- -- All that Glitters is not Silver – Technologies for the Elderly in Context. Introduction -- -- Ageing, Technology and (Inter-)Personal Development: Old Agers as Technology Users -- -- Motives of the Elderly for the Use of Technology in their Daily Lives -- -- An Exploration of Mobile Telephony Non-use among Older People -- -- Older Women on the Game: Understanding Digital Game Perspectives from an Ageing Cohort -- -- Social Inclusion of Elderly People in Rural Areas by Social and Technological Mechanisms -- -- Ageing, Technology and Elderly Care: Assistive Technologies -- -- Skripting Age – The Negotiation of Age and Aging in Ambient Assisted Living -- -- Making Space for Ageing: Embedding Social and Psychological Needs of Older People into Smart Home Technology -- -- Seeing Again. Dementia, Personhood and Technology -- -- Enabling a Mobile and Independent Way of Life for People with Dementia – Needsoriented Technology Development -- -- Emotional Robotics in the Care of Older People: A Comparison of Research Findings of PARO- and PLEO-Interventions in Care Homes from Australia, Germany and the UK -- -- Policy making and Discourses of Ageing Policy making and Discourses of Ageing -- -- Navigating the European Landscape of Ageing and ICT: Policy, Governance, and the Role of Ethics -- -- Ageing and Technology Decision-making: A Framework for Assessing Uncertainty -- -- Aging and Technology: What is the Take Home Message for Newspapers Readers -- -- Towards an Ageless Society: Assessing a Transhumanist Programme -- -- Focusing on the Human: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Ageing and Technology -- -- List of Authors
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