Linda Nierling 
Ageing and Technology [PDF ebook] 
Perspectives from the Social Sciences

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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.

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Linda Nierling (Dr.), geb. 1980, promovierte im Fach Soziologie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und forscht am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Digitale Arbeit, Assistive Technologien und Postwachstum.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 342 ● ISBN 9783839429570 ● File size 3.2 MB ● Editor Linda Nierling ● Publisher transcript Verlag ● Published 2016 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4827021 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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