Gerontechnology : understanding older adult information and communication technology use /
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched Funding, and is freely available to read online. Our aging societies have become increasingly digitalized, leading to concerns that older adults (those age 65 and older) will be disenfranchised by the grey digital divide....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2019.
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| Online Access: | https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787432918 |
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Table of Contents:
- Prelims
- Understanding older adult technology use: an introduction to the ICT User Typology
- Enthusiasts: the technological evangelists
- Practicalists: the technological tool users
- Socializers: the technological social butterflies
- Traditionalists: the keepers of technological tradition
- Guardians: the technological resistance fighters
- Understanding the ICT User Typology and the user types
- User types and the life course: toward understanding the universality of user types
- The ICT User Typology in context: a theoretical perspective
- Breaking the digital divide
- Discovery of the ICT User Typology
- Glossary
- References
- Index.