Riggs Granny @ Work

Aging and New Technology on the Job in America
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-88888-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today's technology-driven workplace.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riggs, Karen E.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The New, New Deal: The Post-Retirement Era
Chapter 2. Lost Boomers in Space: Aging Workers and the Soft Digital Economy
Chapter 3. An American (Techno)Legend: Women, Age, and the Harley-Davidson Workplace
Chapter 4. 'Granny, Go Ahead, You Won't Tear It Up:' Central-City Elders Go Computing (with Jacquelyn Vinson and Amy Lauters)
Chapter 5. Use It or Lose It: The Self-Programmable Elder
Chapter 6. Wizards, Space Cowboys, and (of course) Sean Connery: Film Images of Aging Workers
Chapter 7. Who You Callin' Dude?: Magazine Advertisers Discover Older Workers
Chapter 8. How to Win Matures and Influence Boomers: Intergenerational Communication Through Self-Help
Chapter 9. Driving with Dad: Intergenerational Journeys on the Superhighway
Chapter 10. The Digital Divide's Gray Fault Line: Aging Workers, Technology, and Policy
Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Karen E. Riggs is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. She is author of Mature Audiences: Television in the Lives of Elders.