Researching New Media and Social Diversity in Later Life
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Researching New Media and Social Diversity in Later Life. / Givskov, Cecilie; Deuze, Mark.
I: New Media & Society, Bind 20, Nr. 1, 2018, s. 399-412.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Review › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Researching New Media and Social Diversity in Later Life
AU - Givskov, Cecilie
AU - Deuze, Mark
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - As societies are ageing and mediatising at the same time, it becomes both timely and relevant to develop particular perspectives on the role and meaning of media for older people. The diversity and inequality in the lived experience of the ageing population in the new media environment constitutes a blind spot in current research. In this essay we bring literatures of (cultural) ageing studies, and (new) media studies into conversation with each other by asking what future directions for research on older people and their media lives from the particular perspective of social diversity could be. We propose three key interventions: developing a focus on social stratification and inequality broadly conceived; designing research with a life course perspective rather than reducing people to age groups; and focusing empirical work on media repertoires looking at the various ways people ‘do’ media.
AB - As societies are ageing and mediatising at the same time, it becomes both timely and relevant to develop particular perspectives on the role and meaning of media for older people. The diversity and inequality in the lived experience of the ageing population in the new media environment constitutes a blind spot in current research. In this essay we bring literatures of (cultural) ageing studies, and (new) media studies into conversation with each other by asking what future directions for research on older people and their media lives from the particular perspective of social diversity could be. We propose three key interventions: developing a focus on social stratification and inequality broadly conceived; designing research with a life course perspective rather than reducing people to age groups; and focusing empirical work on media repertoires looking at the various ways people ‘do’ media.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Ageing
KW - digital divide
KW - life course
KW - media theory
KW - media use
KW - mediatization
KW - social stratification
U2 - 10.1177/1461444816663949
DO - 10.1177/1461444816663949
M3 - Review
VL - 20
SP - 399
EP - 412
JO - New Media & Society
JF - New Media & Society
SN - 1461-4448
IS - 1
ER -
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