Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security
This article proposes a theoretical framework for studying new media and its use by elderly people in risk society. Old people and their practices of new media use are discussed in light of the concepts of age cohort, generation and media generation. The article detects homology between individualiz...
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2012-09-01
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| author | Irena Carpentier Reifova Sylvie Fišerová |
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| description | This article proposes a theoretical framework for studying new media and its use by elderly people in risk society. Old people and their practices of new media use are discussed in light of the concepts of age cohort, generation and media generation. The article detects homology between individualization (a backbone of the second modernity as defined by Ulrich Beck) in the management of new risks and operation of new media language. Consequently, the concept of “double individualization of responsibility” is coined and connection is made to the effects of new media and new risks on ontological security. The argument is taken further onto the ground of critical gerontology, which claims that individual decision-making and fluidity of the second modernity is a source of insecurity and anxiety mainly for the old people. The article eventually presents the area of e-health as a research field for further exploration of how old people experience autonomy, individual decision making, and the absence of (or conflict with) external authority while dealing with the health risks on-line. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d6c40b22f5f4cb29c6a23ec7c36d1f22024-03-23T13:15:46ZengMasaryk UniversityCyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace1802-79622012-09-016210.5817/CP2012-2-5Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological securityIrena Carpentier ReifovaSylvie FišerováThis article proposes a theoretical framework for studying new media and its use by elderly people in risk society. Old people and their practices of new media use are discussed in light of the concepts of age cohort, generation and media generation. The article detects homology between individualization (a backbone of the second modernity as defined by Ulrich Beck) in the management of new risks and operation of new media language. Consequently, the concept of “double individualization of responsibility” is coined and connection is made to the effects of new media and new risks on ontological security. The argument is taken further onto the ground of critical gerontology, which claims that individual decision-making and fluidity of the second modernity is a source of insecurity and anxiety mainly for the old people. The article eventually presents the area of e-health as a research field for further exploration of how old people experience autonomy, individual decision making, and the absence of (or conflict with) external authority while dealing with the health risks on-line.https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4266old agemedia generationnew medianew risksontological security |
| spellingShingle | Irena Carpentier Reifova Sylvie Fišerová Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace old age media generation new media new risks ontological security |
| title | Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security |
| title_full | Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security |
| title_fullStr | Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security |
| title_short | Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security |
| title_sort | ageing on line in risk society elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security |
| topic | old age media generation new media new risks ontological security |
| url | https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4266 |
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