Catching the Digital Train on Time: Older Adults, Continuity, and Digital Inclusion

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Cora van Leeuwen, A. Jacobs, Ilse Mariën
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Abstract

As society has become more reliant on digital technology, it has changed the perception of the ageing experience to now include a digital component. However, not every older adult perceives digital technology as essential to their way of ageing. In this article, we asked 76 older adults with different patterns of digital technology use how they experience and perceive the role of digital technology in the context of their ageing. The thematic analysis results point to a more nuanced understanding of the importance of familial support, the role of personal history or continuity in older adults’ digital inclusion, and how they see the role of age in relation to digital technology. Furthermore, our findings show that ageism is both a barrier and a motivational factor for older adults. When ageism is based on the level of digital inclusion, it can cause a different ageing experience, one that is perceived as superior by those using digital technology. This leads to a precarious situation: It becomes essential to maintain digital skills to avoid the non‐digital ageing experience even as it becomes more difficult to maintain their skills due to the evolution of technology. Prior to the study, we created a conceptual framework to understand ageing in a more digitalised world. We used the findings of this study to test the conceptual framework and we conclude that the framework can clarify the role (or lack) of digital technology in the ageing experience of older adults.
准时赶上数字列车:老年人、连续性和数字包容性
随着社会越来越依赖数字技术,它改变了人们对老龄化体验的看法,现在包括了数字部分。然而,并不是每个老年人都认为数字技术对他们的衰老方式至关重要。在这篇文章中,我们询问了76名具有不同数字技术模式的老年人,他们如何在老龄化的背景下体验和感知数字技术的作用。主题分析结果表明,人们对家庭支持的重要性、个人历史或连续性在老年人数字包容中的作用,以及他们如何看待年龄在数字技术中的作用有了更细致的理解。此外,我们的研究结果表明,年龄歧视对老年人来说既是一个障碍,也是一个动机因素。当年龄歧视是基于数字包容性的水平时,它可能会导致不同的老龄化体验,这种体验被那些使用数字技术的人认为是优越的。这导致了一种不稳定的情况:保持数字技能以避免非数字老龄化体验变得至关重要,即使由于技术的发展,保持他们的技能变得更加困难。在这项研究之前,我们创建了一个概念框架,以了解在一个更加数字化的世界中的老龄化。我们使用这项研究的结果来测试概念框架,我们得出的结论是,该框架可以阐明数字技术在老年人老龄化体验中的作用(或缺乏)。
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Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
CiteScore
3.50
自引率
0.00%
发文量
114
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: Social Inclusion is a peer-reviewed open access journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclusive society. The journal encourages researchers to publish their results on topics concerning social and cultural cohesiveness, marginalized social groups, social stratification, minority-majority interaction, cultural diversity, national identity, and core-periphery relations, while making significant contributions to the understanding and enhancement of social inclusion worldwide. Social Inclusion aims at being an interdisciplinary journal, covering a broad range of topics, such as immigration, poverty, education, minorities, disability, discrimination, and inequality, with a special focus on studies which discuss solutions, strategies and models for social inclusion. Social Inclusion invites contributions from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds and specializations, inter alia sociology, political science, international relations, history, cultural studies, geography, media studies, educational studies, communication science, and language studies. We welcome conceptual analysis, historical perspectives, and investigations based on empirical findings, while accepting regular research articles, review articles, commentaries, and reviews.
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