Digital Ageism

Author : Andrea Rosales,Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol,Jakob Svensson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000904833

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Digital Ageism by Andrea Rosales,Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol,Jakob Svensson Pdf

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. The book addresses social science students and scholars interested in everyday digital technologies, society and the power struggles about it, providing insights from different parts of the globe. By using different methods and touching upon different aspects of digital ageism and how it plays out in contemporary connected data societies, this volume will raise awareness, challenge power, initiate discussions and spur further research into this field. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Author : Todd D. Nelson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0262640570

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Ageism by Todd D. Nelson Pdf

Current findings on the origins and effects of ageism, as well as ways to reduce it.

Author : Tracey Gendron
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781586423223

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Ageism Unmasked by Tracey Gendron Pdf

Why do we still tolerate stereotypes and discrimination based on age? This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism's roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood. Ageism Unmasked shifts the lens, enabling us to see that we tolerate, and sometimes actively promote, attitudes and behaviors toward differently aged people that we would reject and condemn if applied to any other group. It peels back the layers to expose how cultural norms and unconscious prejudices have seeped into our lives, silently shaping our treatment of others based on their age and our own misconceptions about aging—and about ourselves. Offering an all-inclusive approach, Dr. Tracey Gendron reveals the biases behind our false understanding of aging, sharing powerful opportunities for personal growth along with strategies to help create an anti-ageist society. Ageism Unmasked will help readers let go of our desperate need to stay young… exposing how we personally, systematically, structurally, and institutionally stigmatize being old. Ageism Unmasked will help readers appreciate both the challenges and opportunities of how we all age… showing how ageism is prejudice towards both younger and older people. Ageism Unmasked will help readers reset our expectations for getting old… providing the tools to anticipate and experience elderhood as a time of renewed meaning and purpose, empowering each of us to create our own definition of successful aging. Ageism Unmasked continues Dr. Gendron's transformative work inspiring people of all ages to embrace aging as our universal and lifelong process of developing over time — biologically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually.

Author : Loredana Ivan,Hannah R. Marston,Dennis Rosenberg
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832534540

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Post-pandemic Digital Realities of Older Adults by Loredana Ivan,Hannah R. Marston,Dennis Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Qin Gao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031615436

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population by Qin Gao Pdf

Author : Head of Department Frankopan Director of the Centre for Gender Studies Jude Browne,Jude Browne,Stephen Cave,Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology Eleanor Drage,Eleanor Drage,Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology Kerry McInerney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780192889898

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Feminist AI by Head of Department Frankopan Director of the Centre for Gender Studies Jude Browne,Jude Browne,Stephen Cave,Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology Eleanor Drage,Eleanor Drage,Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology Kerry McInerney Pdf

Chapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines is the first volume to bring together leading feminist thinkers from across the disciplines to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and related data-driven technologies on human society. Recent years have seen both an explosion in AI systems and a corresponding rise in important critical analyses of these technologies. Central to these analyses has been feminist scholarship, which calls upon the AI sector to be accountable for designing and deploying AI in ways that further, rather than undermine, the pursuit of social justice. This book aims to be a touchstone text for AI researchers concerned with the social impact of their systems, as well as theorists, students and educators in the field of gender and technology. It demonstrates the importance of an intersectional understanding of the risks and benefits of AI, approaching feminism as a political project that aims to challenge various interlocking forms of injustice, social inequality and structural relations of power. Feminist AI showcases the vital contributions of feminist scholarship to thinking about AI, data, and intelligent machines as well as laying the groundwork for future feminist scholarship on AI. It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, from computer science, software engineering, and medical sciences to political theory, anthropology, and literature. It provides an entry point for scholars of AI, science and technology into the diversity of feminist approaches to AI, and creates a rich dialogue between scholars and practitioners of AI to examine the powerful congruences and generative tensions between different feminist approaches to new and emerging technologies. It features original and essential works specially selected to span multiple generations of practitioners and scholars. These contributors are also attuned to conversations at industry-level around the risks and possibilities that frame the drive to adopt AI. This collection reflects the increasingly blurred divide between the academy, industry and corporate research groups and brings interdisciplinary feminist insights together with postcolonial studies, disability theory, and critical race studies to confront ageism, racism, sexism, ableism, and class-based oppressions in AI.

Author : Helena Hirvonen,Mia Tammelin,Riitta Hänninen,Eveline J.M. Wouters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000482782

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Digital Transformations in Care for Older People by Helena Hirvonen,Mia Tammelin,Riitta Hänninen,Eveline J.M. Wouters Pdf

The book investigates digitalisation in care for older people by giving insight into service users’ and professionals’ opportunities to digital agency in the context of European welfare states. With a focus on service users and providers experiences of digital care, the contributions address the manifold and often contradictory consequences of active ageing policies and innovation programmes. To assess digital agency of older people, ageism and co-creation in the innovation processes as well the use of digital platforms are addressed, while care professionals’ digital agency is examined through empirical cases that focus on the interaction between human and non-human actors in long-term care services, the temporality and spatiality of care, and the organisational requirements for successful implementation of digital technologies. From a variety of conceptual and theoretical viewpoints, the chapters provide a comprehensive and timely overview of ways to address the phenomena of ageing and digitalisation. The book provides critical vantage points to academic readership, health and social care professionals, policymakers, other stakeholders as well as the general audience on the effects of digitalisation in care for older people. "The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The Open Access fee was funded by University of Jyvaskyla, Finland."

Author : Sandro Carnicelli,David McGillivray,Gayle McPherson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317355601

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Digital Leisure Cultures by Sandro Carnicelli,David McGillivray,Gayle McPherson Pdf

The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained – opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure. This edited collection provides a significant contribution to our changing understanding of digital leisure cultures, reflecting on the socio-historical context within which the digital age emerged, while engaging with new debates about the evolving and controversial role of digital platforms in contemporary leisure cultures. This book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of studying digital leisure cultures. To make sense of how individuals and institutions use digital spaces it is necessary to draw on history, science and technology, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology and geography, as well as sport and leisure studies. This important and timely study discusses both the promise of the digital sphere as a realm of liberation, and the darker side of the internet associated with control, surveillance, exclusion and dehumanisation. Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives is fascinating reading for any student or scholar of sociology, sport and leisure studies, geography or media studies.

Author : Véronique Billette,Patrik Marier,Anne-Marie Séguin
Publisher : Purich Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774880640

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Getting Wise about Getting Old by Véronique Billette,Patrik Marier,Anne-Marie Séguin Pdf

A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and financial havoc in its wake. Sound familiar? This myth about aging, along with twenty-eight others, is the focus of Getting Wise about Getting Old, which paints a far more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. In it, experts debunk myths and persistent stereotypes about aging on a broad array of social issues – from retirement (seniors are low-performance workers) to housing (most older adults live in long-term care accommodation), and violence (senior women are not victims of sexual assault) to political participation (seniors are conservative and resistant to change) – deconstructing and countering them with the latest findings. The work of two leading research groups in Quebec, the short and accessible chapters of this vitally important book contribute to a better understanding of the social challenges, as well as the advantages, of an aging society.

Author : Özsungur, Fahri
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799891888

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Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies by Özsungur, Fahri Pdf

Digital violence continues to increase, especially during times of crisis. Racism, bullying, ageism, sexism, child pornography, cybercrime, and digital tracking raise critical social and digital security issues that have lasting effects. Digital violence can cause children to be dragged into crime, create social isolation for the elderly, generate inter-communal conflicts, and increase cyber warfare. A closer study of digital violence and its effects is necessary to develop lasting solutions. The Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies introduces the current best practices, laboratory methods, policies, and protocols surrounding international digital violence and discrimination. Covering a range of topics such as abuse and harassment, this major reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians, policymakers, practitioners, professionals, instructors, and students.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240040793

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Ageism in artificial intelligence for health by World Health Organization Pdf

The WHO policy brief Ageism in Artificial Intelligence for Health addresses the interplay between ageism and artificial intelligence for health as it affects older people, including the conditions in which artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate or introduce new forms of ageism. It further presents legal, non-legal and technical measures that can be used to minimize the risk of ageism in AI and to maximize its use for older people as these technologies become more commonly used across the world.

Author : Lester D. Friedman,Therese Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000622812

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Routledge Handbook of Health and Media by Lester D. Friedman,Therese Jones Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies. A unique and significant volume in an expanding pedagogical field, this diverse collection of international, original, and interdisciplinary essays goes beyond issues of representation to engage in scholarly conversations about the web of networks that inextricably bind media and health to each other. Divided into sections on film, television, animation, photography, comics, advertising, social media, and print journalism, each chapter begins with a concrete text or texts, using it to raise more general and more theoretical issues about the medium in question. As such, this Handbook defines, expands, and illuminates the role that the humanities and arts play in the education and practice of healthcare professionals and in our understanding of health, illness, and disability. The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media is an invaluable reference for academics, students and health professionals engaged with cultural issues in media and medicine, popular representations of disease and disability, and the patient/professional health care encounter.

Author : Jia Zhou,Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319399430

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for Aging by Jia Zhou,Gavriel Salvendy Pdf

The two LNCS volume set 9754-9755 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 14 other thematically conferences. The total of 1287 papers and 186 poster papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. LNCS 9754, Design for Aging (Part I), addresses the following major topics: designing for and with the elderly; technology use and acceptance by older users; psychological and cognitive aspects of interaction and aging; mobile and wearable technologies for the elderly. LNCS 9755, Healthy and Active Aging (Part II), addresses these major topics: smart and assistive environments; aging and social media; aging, learning, training and games; and aging, mobility and driving.

Author : Alexander Peine,Barbara Marshall,Wendy Martin,Louis Neven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000300529

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Socio-gerontechnology by Alexander Peine,Barbara Marshall,Wendy Martin,Louis Neven Pdf

Theorize the technification of later life. Critically discuss and assess the state of the art of research on the digitization of later life. Provide ground-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship in STS and Age Studies that will carry both fields forward. Highlight and demonstrate the importance of reflexive social science insights for innovation policies and design related to old age. Deliver a formative volume as reference for future studies in Socio-gerontechnology in STS and various ageing disciplines.

Author : Sergio Sayago
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030060763

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Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction Research with Older People by Sergio Sayago Pdf

This book promotes a critical reflection about the research conducted so far in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with older people, whose predominant perspective focuses on decline, health, and help. It introduces a new (or different) perspective, which is grounded in interdisciplinary research on older people and digital technologies. Key elements are to (i) address topics that include, but also go beyond decline, health, and help, such as leisure, fun, creativity and culture, to delve more deeply into the role of digital technologies in multiple facets of older people’s lives; (ii) focus on doing research and designing technologies with and for older adults, and their communities, to avoid and fight against negative social conceptions of ageing; and (iii) examine older people’s life course, strengths, interests, and values, as well as their limitations and needs, to design technologies that not only help but also empower them, extending their abilities and acquiring new knowledge, beyond technology use. This perspective aims to help us better understand, design, and evaluate older people’s interactions with digital technologies in the early 21st century.