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1 online resource |
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Routledge advances in sociology |
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Routledge advances in sociology.
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| Contents |
1. Socio-gerontechnology: key themes, future agendas / Alexander Peine, Barbara L. Marshall, Wendy Martin, Louis Neven -- 2. Age, actors and agency: what we can learn from Age Studies and STS for the development of Socio-gerontechnology / Anna Wanka, Vera Gallistl -- PART I. Bridges: critical frameworks of ageing and technology -- 3. Fragile robots and coincidental innovation: turning Socio-gerontechnology towards ontology / Marie Ertner and Aske Juul Lassen -- 4. Topographies of ageing: a new materialist analysis of ageing-in-place / Monika Urban -- 5. Elderliness: the agential inseparability of ageing and assistive technologies / Michela Cozza -- 6. Civilising technologies for an ageing society? The performativity of participatory methods in Socio-gerontechnology / Daniel López and Tomás Sanchez Criado -- 7. Agents or actants: what technology might make of later life? / Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs -- 8. Commentary: re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus / Tiago Moreira -- PART II. Encounters: empirical approaches to ageing and technology -- 9. 'Send me a WhatsApp when you arrive home': mediated practices of caring about / Roser Beneito-montagut and Arantza Begueria -- 10. Making and unmaking ageing-in-place: towards a co-constructive understanding of ageing and place / Susan Van Hees, Anna Wanka and Klasien Horstman -- 11. Age matters: senior exclusions, designing consultations and a municipal action plan for age-(un)friendly cities / Kim Sawchuk and Constance Lafontaine -- 12. Dementia scripts / Jenny M. Bergschöld -- 13. Between repair and bricolage: digital entanglements and fragile connections in dementia care work in Denmark / Nete Schwennesen -- 14. Commentary: encountering ageing, science and technology -- whose future? Whose definition of ageing? / Kelly Joyce -- PART III. Design: critical reflections and new approaches -- 15. Configuring the older adult: how age and ageing are re-configured in gerontechnology design / Andreas Bischof and Juliane Jarke -- 16. Co-designing technologies for care: spaces of co-habitation / Helen Manchester -- 17. How have user representations been sustained and recreated in the design of technologies between 1960 and 2020? / Britt Östlund and Susanne Frennert -- 18. Commentary: technology, design and the 3Ps -- the problem of problematising ageing as problematic / Barbara Barbosa Neves -- 19. Afterword: Why Socio-gerontechnology today / Stephen Katz |
| Summary |
"Social change in the 21st century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, Socio-gerontechnology, this book explores common conceptual, theoretical and methodological ideas that become visible in the critical scholarship on ageing and technology at the intersection of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Comprised of 15 original chapters, three commentaries and an afterword, the book explores how ageing and technology are already interconnected and constantly being intertwined in Western societies. Topics addressed cover a broad variety of socio-material domains including care robots, the use of social media, ageing in place technologies, the performativity of user involvement and public consultations, dementia care and many others. Together, they provide a unique understanding of ageing and technology from a social sciences and humanities perspective and contribute to the development of new ontologies, methodologies and theories that might serve as both critique of, and inspiration for, policy and design. International in scope, including contributions from the UK, Canada, USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, Socio-gerontechnology is an agenda-setting text that will provide an introduction for students and early career researchers as well as more established scholars that are interested in ageing and technology"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Alexander Peine is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Over the last ten years, he has developed an interdisciplinary research agenda on the use and design of technologies for older people that combines ideas from STS and Age Studies. Barbara L. Marshall is Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. She has written extensively on ageing, gender, sexuality and technology. Her current research explores ageing and digital technologies as these are reconfiguring embodiment and experiences of later life. Wendy Martin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London. Her research focuses on ageing, embodiment, and the digital and everyday life. Wendy is a member of the Executive Committee of British Society of Gerontology and Co-Editor of Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. Louis Neven is a lector (professor) and leads the Active Ageing research group at the Caring Society Centre of Expertise of Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands. He has a long-standing interest in the design and use of technologies for older people |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 29, 2021) |
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Older people -- Services for.
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Technology and older people.
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Older people -- Medical care.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Adulthood & Aging.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Older people -- Medical care
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Older people -- Services for
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Technology and older people
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peine, Alexander, editor.
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| LC no. |
2020034914 |
| ISBN |
9781000300529 |
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1000300528 |
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9780429278266 |
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0429278268 |
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9781000316872 |
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1000316874 |
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9781000317534 |
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1000317536 |
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