Relational components in the use of digital devices and apps: Mapping media appropriation processes among older adults in Sweden

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C. Martínez
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Abstract Since access to and use of digital devices and applications often become more challenging with age, it is important to study how media appropriation processes unfold later in life. The present article contributes to existing research by applying the concept of transaction – developed within relational sociology – to study digital media appropriation. Using this concept, I focus on how older adults’ relations with various actors (known others, distant others, and non-human transactors) fuel the appropriation of digital devices and apps. Drawing on interviews with 22 older adults (70–94 years of age), I identify four types of appropriation processes. This shows the diversity of ways in which digital devices and apps enter the lives of older adults and the diversity of agentic roles in media appropriation. The results also reveal how a sense of coercion in media appropriation was present among the older adults, especially in relation to their children.
数字设备和应用程序使用中的关系成分:绘制瑞典老年人的媒体占用过程
摘要由于随着年龄的增长,访问和使用数字设备和应用程序往往变得更具挑战性,因此研究媒体挪用过程在以后的生活中是如何展开的很重要。本文通过应用关系社会学中发展起来的交易概念来研究数字媒体挪用,为现有研究做出了贡献。利用这个概念,我关注的是老年人与各种参与者(已知的其他人、遥远的其他人和非人类交易者)的关系如何助长数字设备和应用程序的挪用。根据对22名老年人(70-94岁)的采访,我确定了四种类型的挪用过程。这表明了数字设备和应用程序进入老年人生活的方式的多样性,以及媒介挪用中代理人角色的多样性。研究结果还揭示了媒体挪用中的胁迫感在老年人中是如何存在的,尤其是与他们的孩子有关。
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