Socio-gerontechnology (eBook, PDF)

Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology
Redaktion: Peine, Alexander; Neven, Louis; Martin, Wendy; Marshall, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000300529
• Artikelnr.: 60993411

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Socio-gerontechnology - Key Themes, Future Agendas
2. Age, Actors and Agency - What We Can Learn from Age Studies and STS for
the Development of Socio-gerontechnology
Part I: Bridges - Critical Frameworks of Ageing and Technology
3. Fragile Robots and Coincidental Innovation: Turning
Socio-gerontechnology towards Ontology
4. Topographies of Ageing: A New Materialist Analysis of Ageing-in-place
6. Civilising Technologies for an Ageing Society? The Performativity of
Participatory Methods in Socio-gerontechnology
7. Agents or Actants: What Technology Might Make of Later Life?
8. Commentary: Re-imaging the Ageing and Technology Nexus
Part II: Encounters - Empirical Approaches to Ageing and Technology
9. "Send Me a Whatsapp When You Arrive Home": Mediated Practices of Caring
About
10. Making and Unmaking Ageing in Place: Towards a Co-constructive
Understanding of Ageing and Place
11. Age Matters: Senior Exclusions, Designing Consultations and a Municipal
Action Plan for Age-(Un)Friendly Cities
12. Dementia Scripts
13. Between Repair and Bricolage: Digital Entanglements and Fragile
Connections in Dementia Care Work in Denmark
14. Commentary: Encountering Ageing, Science, and Technology - Whose
Future? Whose Definition of Ageing?
Part III: Design - Critical Reflections and New Approaches
15. Configuring the Older Adult: How Age and Ageing are Re-configured in
Gerontechnology Design
16. Co-designing Technologies for Care: Spaces of Co-habitation
17. How Have User Representations Been Sustained and Recreated in the
Design of Technologies Between 1960 and 2020?
18. Commentary: Technology, Design, and the 3Ps - the Problem of
Problematising Ageing as Problematic
19. Afterword: Why Socio-gerontechnology Today