Ageing and Technology
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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-Porträt
Domínguez-Rué, EmmaEmma 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2016, 342 Seiten, 3 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 22,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Ed. by Emma Domínguez-Rué and Linda Nierling
- Herausgegeben: Emma Domínguez-Rué, Linda Nierling
- Verlag: transcript
- ISBN-10: 3837629570
- ISBN-13: 9783837629576
Sprache:
Englisch
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