On Old Age and Its Multiplicity: Exploring Discourses and Materialities about Getting Older
Old age is at the core of complex constellations composed by media discourses, care and mundane activities, and affective and technological practices that involve a wide range of human and non-human actors. While during the last years concepts such as “active” and “successful” ageing have more and m...
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2023-02-01
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| description | Old age is at the core of complex constellations composed by media discourses, care and mundane activities, and affective and technological practices that involve a wide range of human and non-human actors. While during the last years concepts such as “active” and “successful” ageing have more and more emphasised the individual responsibility of older adults in managing their own health, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic elderly have been increasingly framed as vulnerable subjects. This Crossing Boundaries will explore the different instances assumed by the “old age” as an emerging object by the enactment of discourses and materialities. In doing so, this Crossing Boundaries mobilizes different theoretical perspectives, such as STS, media studies and sociology of health. The authors will explore three main issues: 1) the public discourse about the health status of older people; 2) the collective management of Alzheimer’s disease in and outside institutions; 3) the involvement of older adults in designing information and communication technologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1adf32f587fe421e8c171c751f1148f62024-01-22T10:27:43ZengUniversity of Bologna – Dipartimento di Filosofia e ComunicazioneTecnoscienza2038-34602023-02-0113210513210.6092/issn.2038-3460/1758115940On Old Age and Its Multiplicity: Exploring Discourses and Materialities about Getting OlderFrancesco Miele0Nicoletta Bosco1Valeria Cappellato2Elisa Castellaccio3Enrico Maria Piras4University of TriesteUniversity of TorinoUniversity of TorinoUniversity of BolognaBruno Kessler FoundationOld age is at the core of complex constellations composed by media discourses, care and mundane activities, and affective and technological practices that involve a wide range of human and non-human actors. While during the last years concepts such as “active” and “successful” ageing have more and more emphasised the individual responsibility of older adults in managing their own health, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic elderly have been increasingly framed as vulnerable subjects. This Crossing Boundaries will explore the different instances assumed by the “old age” as an emerging object by the enactment of discourses and materialities. In doing so, this Crossing Boundaries mobilizes different theoretical perspectives, such as STS, media studies and sociology of health. The authors will explore three main issues: 1) the public discourse about the health status of older people; 2) the collective management of Alzheimer’s disease in and outside institutions; 3) the involvement of older adults in designing information and communication technologies.https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/17581old agepandemicsalzheimergerontotechnologyvulnerability |
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| title | On Old Age and Its Multiplicity: Exploring Discourses and Materialities about Getting Older |
| title_full | On Old Age and Its Multiplicity: Exploring Discourses and Materialities about Getting Older |
| title_fullStr | On Old Age and Its Multiplicity: Exploring Discourses and Materialities about Getting Older |
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| title_short | On Old Age and Its Multiplicity: Exploring Discourses and Materialities about Getting Older |
| title_sort | on old age and its multiplicity exploring discourses and materialities about getting older |
| topic | old age pandemics alzheimer gerontotechnology vulnerability |
| url | https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/17581 |
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