Ageing in and through Data

Lived Experiences and Creative Interventions
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6887-1
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: MediaMatters

Ageing in and through Data investigates what it means to grow old in an increasingly datafied world. As humanity confronts increasingly complex challenges, the need to develop more sustainable models for ageing is urgent – particularly through innovative applications of emerging technologies. For many older adults, one question dominates: how can technology be used to enhance rather than diminish our lives?

This book enlivens the voices and experiences of older adults by empowering them as experts. The insights presented draw from rich lived experience data gathered over three years through ethnographic and creative methods research with older adults in Victoria, Australia. Understanding the potentials and challenges of data and automation for older adults is at a crucial point. The participants outlined the ways in which data and automation are impacting their everyday lives. With their embodied knowledge, key themes, concerns and potentialities are presented, which are in turn used to examine crucial areas of concern for humans of all ages: data literacy, data limitations, privacy, risk, security, community, play and belonging.

The book is aimed at upper undergraduate/graduate students and researchers studying digital media, critical data studies and ageing, and older adults themselves.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hjorth, Larissa

McGrane, Caitlin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: What does it mean to age in a datafied world?

Part I: Data and ageing

2 Debates in ageing and data

3 Doing ethnography with older adults

Part II: At home

4 Situating the ethnographies and cultural probes

5 Perceptions of technology in later life

6 Practices with technology in later life

7 Mapping media rituals

8 Playful interspecies storytelling

Part III: Playshops and creative interventions

9 Co-designing playshops

10 Futures and speculations

11 Conclusion: Reflections and recommendations

References

Appendix: Cultural probe instruction document

Über Autor(innen)

Caitlin McGrane is a Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. Her research expertise is in feminist mobile media, digital ethnography and addressing digital inequality.

Larissa Hjorth is a Distinguished Professor and a digital ethnographer, socially-engaged artist and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia. She is the author of several books, including Mourning on Mobile Media.