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Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Science Studies) - Softcover

Emma Domínguez-Rué; Linda Nierling

 
9783837629576: Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Science Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837629570 ISBN 13: 9783837629576
Verlag: transcript, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Emma Domínguez-Rué (Dr.) teaches in the Department of English at the University of Lleida, Catalunya (Spain). Linda Nierling (Dr.), is a researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany).

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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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Verlag
transcript
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837629570
ISBN 13 
9783837629576
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
342
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