As digital technologies further embed themselves in everyday life, how do older adults navigate and adapt to these tools? Digital Repertoires introduces the concept of the “digital repertoire” to investigate the evolving ways older people engage with technology across cultural and social contexts. Based on global research, this work confronts typical stereotypes of aging and digital exclusion and emphasizes the agency, creativity, and new challenges older adults experience in their digital interactions.
Including voices of scholars from anthropology, sociology, gerontology, communication studies, and design, this book offers theoretical depth as well as empirical breadth, making it essential reading for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working at the intersection of aging and technology.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: older adults navigating digital technologies in everyday life
Sakari Taipale, Riitta Hänninen and Laura Haapio-Kirk
2 From digital skills to digital repertoires: towards a more inclusive conceptualisation of technology use in an aging society
Loredana Ivan
3 Exploring the key elements of digital repertoire – the meaning of new technology in later life
Riitta Hänninen and Sakari Taipale
4 Lives on hold? Ageing migrants’ affective digital repertoires during lockdowns in Victoria, Australia
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
5 Digital repertoires of care in Japan: a participatory visual approach
Laura Haapio-Kirk
6 Ageing in Digitalized Brazil: using the ‘Brazilian way’ to compensate for lower digital skills and benefit from health information, healthcare and medical guidance
Marília Duque and Emilene Zitkus
7 Uncovering older adults’ digital repertoires for designing conversational scenarios: graphic transcript as a design method
Sanna Kuoppamäki, Mikaela Hellstrand and Donald McMillan
8 Epilogue
Daniel Miller
Index