Uses of Internet applications in elderly people in Barcelona City: A study from gender perspective
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Abstract
The phenomenon of aging population is increasing around the world and this situation is grabbing attention to different national and international organizations to carry out different actions looking to improve the quality of life in elderly people through developing digital skills to face the technological shift. The following study is part of the doctoral thesis presented in 2014. This is an empirical and qualitative study and pretends to show how elderly people face the technological shift through using and consuming the Internet applications and how they obtain and develop digital abilities. We applied depth interview to ten elderly men and ten elderly women living in Barcelona City, and was structured according to “media-person interactions” typology (McQuail, Blumler and Brown, 1972) detached from the Uses and Gratifications Theory (Katz and Blumler, 1974). Also, we applied the gender perspective, allowing a comparison between elderly men and women to detect differences and similarities when they use the Internet applications. The data was gathered in four months in two periods of two months each one from March to April and September to October in 2011.Keywords
Digital inclusion, digital skills, elderly people, gender perspective, technological shift.Downloads
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