History and Past Activities
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ESA Conference: Ageing Societies, New Sociology
September 23-26, 2003 in Murcia, Spain
Two streams of sessions of the
Research Network 18: Sociology of Science and Technology (SSTNET)
Convenors:
Raymund Werle: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany (werle@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de)
Marja Häyrinen Alestalo: Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland (marja.alestalo@helsinki.fi)
Luísa Oliveira: DINÂMIA/ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal (luisa.oliveira@iscte.pt)
Maarten Mentzel: 38 Johan de Wittstraat, 2334 AR Leiden, The Netherlands (m.a.mentzel@planet.nl)
Second Stream: New Technologies in Ageing Societies
Friday Sept. 26
14.30 - 16.30 session 8 (Campus de La Merced)
Chair Luísa Oliveira
8.4. Author(s):Johansson, Sune
Institution: Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences
Professional Category:
City: Roskilde
Country: Denmark
E-mail: sjo@ruc.dk.
HOW ELDERLY USING IT CRAFTS THE STAGE OF THE AGING SOCIETY IN AN ALTERNATIVE WAY
Based on case studies of six local development projects with elderly people and IT, financed by the Danish Research Councils, this paper tells the story about, how these projects spread light on alternative ways of crafting the stage of the aging society. It will be argued, that the projects establish different experimental stages, allowing elderly to do experiments with the use of IT, from which we can learn a lot. With a special focus on learning, networking and roles, the paper evaluates the crafting of these experimental stages and also suggests that we can learn from them, how IT-development, elderly and society as a hole, mutually can benefit from elderly making a closer acquaintance with IT. The paper concludes, that the possession of IT competences in a broad sense, not only enables elderly people to play the role as active citizens and full members of the network society. The possession of IT competences can also underpin bottom up processes of further development of the active elderly citizen role, and there by highlight new perspectives on the question: how to craft the stage of the aging society?
Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - last update: April 2006