Gerontechnology Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use

This book presents a typology that explains the diversity of ICT usage seen in older adults. It examines older adult use of everyday Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) across multiple life contexts (work, family, leisure, and community) allowing readers to understand how the growing a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Birkland, Johanna
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley Emerald Publishing Limited 2019
Emerald Publishing
Emerald
Edition1
Subjects
Communication Studies
Cultural
Cultural Gerontology
Digital
Digital communications
Digital Divide
Divide
Gerontology
ICT
ICT use
Information Science
Interdisciplinary studies
Language Arts & Disciplines
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Technology and older people
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Table of Contents:
  • Recruiting Community-dwelling Working Older Adults -- Developing Rapport -- Generating a Rich Participative Theory -- Challenges with the Interpretive Interactionist Case Methodology -- Recruitment Challenges: Secondary Participants -- Sampling Diversity Challenges -- Ethical Challenges -- Glossary -- References -- Index
  • Technological Fear -- Self-assessment of Own Skills -- Nostalgia and User Type -- Chapter 8 User Types and the Life Course: Toward Understanding the Universality of User Types -- Enthusiasts -- Practicalists -- Socializers -- Traditionalists -- Guardians -- Different Generations, The Same Types -- Chapter 9 The ICT User Typology in Context: A Theoretical Perspective -- The Gerontechnological Research and User Types -- User Types and Gender -- Integration of the User Typology with Other Theories -- Kaarst-Brown's (1995) IT Cultural Archetypes -- E. M. Roger's (1962, 2003) Diffusion of Innovations -- De Shutter and Malliet's (2014) Taxonomy of Older Adult Gamers -- Opportunities for Further Research -- Expansion of the ICT User Typology Beyond the Lucky Few (and Beyond the United States) -- Exploring the Development of ICT User Types -- Chapter 10 Breaking the Digital Divide -- Practitioner Opportunities: Understanding and Supporting Older Adults -- Closing the Gray Digital Divide: Supporting Older Adult Users and Non-users -- Improving Technological Literacy: Helping the Wants -- Facilitating Accessibility to and Affordability of ICTs: Helping the Wants -- Supporting the Traditionalists: Helping the Want-Nots -- Using the ICT User Typology for Tailored ICT Service and Product Design -- Moving Beyond Older Adults: Using the ICT Typology in Primary and Secondary Education -- Chapter 11 Discovery of the ICT User Typology -- The Process of Discovery: Determining the Method -- Deciding a Basic Case Structure: Multi-interview Format -- Who to Interview: Conceptualization of the Sample -- Creating a Sampling Frame -- Recruitment of Older Adults: Primary Participants -- Secondary Participants Recruitment and Sampling -- The Interviews: Collecting the Data -- Data Analysis -- Power of the Interpretive Interactionist Case Methodology
  • Front Cover -- Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Understanding Older Adult Technology Use: An Introduction to the ICT User Typology -- The ICT User Typology: The Five User Types -- Why Is a Theory of Older Adult ICT Use Necessary? -- The ICT User Typology: Use as Domestication Patterns -- The ICT User Typology: A Context-rich Gerontechnological Theory -- Chapter 2 Enthusiasts: The Technological Evangelists -- Formative Experiences -- Introduction to ICTs -- ICT Use -- ICT Display -- ICT Meaning -- Enthusiasts: The Technological Evangelists -- Chapter 3 Practicalists: The Technological Tool Users -- Formative Experiences -- Introduction to ICTs -- ICT Use -- ICT Display -- ICT Meaning -- Practicalists: The Technological Tool Pragmatists -- Chapter 4 Socializers: The Technological Social Butterflies -- Formative Experiences -- Introduction to ICTs -- ICT Use -- ICT Display -- ICT Meaning -- Socializers: The Technological Social Butterflies -- Chapter 5 Traditionalists: The Keepers of Technological Tradition -- Formative Experiences -- Introduction to ICTs -- ICT Use -- ICT Display -- ICT Meaning -- Traditionalists: The Keepers of Technological Tradition -- Chapter 6 Guardians: The Technological Resistance Fighters -- Formative Experiences -- Introduction to ICTs -- ICT Use -- ICT Display -- ICT Meaning -- Guardians: The Technological Resistance Fighters -- Chapter 7 Understanding the ICT User Typology and the User Types -- Comparisons between the User Types: Understanding Similarities and Differences -- Willingness to Try New ICTs -- Fun versus Function -- Experiences with Technology (Positive versus Negative) -- Willingness to Experiment with their ICTs