Ageing and Technology

Perspectives from the Social Sciences
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2957-6
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Science Studies

The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the 'human factor' is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices.

This volume aims at focusing on the perspective of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective – taking the human being and not technology first – may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nierling, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Nierling, Linda
Linda Nierling (Dr.), geb. 1980, promovierte im Fach Soziologie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und forscht am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Digitale Arbeit, Assistive Technologien und Postwachstum.

Emma Domínguez-Rué (PhD), born in 1976, teaches in the Department of English at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. She has worked not only on ageing studies but also within the American studies and on narratives of disease, contemporary detective fiction, and Victorian and Gothic fiction from a feminist perspective.
Linda Nierling (Dr.), born 1980, received her PhD from the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. She does research at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technology (KIT). Her main researach topics are digital work, assistive technologies and post growth.