Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing
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Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing. / Givskov, Cecilie.
I: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Bind 21, Nr. 3, 2018, s. 305-316.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Growing old with media technology and the material experience of ageing
AU - Givskov, Cecilie
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - During the 20th and 21st century, media such as radio, telephone, television, computers and cell phones moved into everyday life as taken-for-granted elements. Based on observations and life-history interviews with 22 older women, this article discusses how media technology is materially involved in the experience of growing old. The analysis reveals two aspects of this. First, different technology stands out from its background presence as problematic because the media no longer enable the experiences they used to. Second, disconnects with and through media technology direct attention towards the declining body. The participants embody ‘old age’ by linking their experience with media to two cultural constructions of material ageing: generation and natural ageing. I argue that inasmuch as everyday life has become mediatized, the experience of growing old also takes place with and through media technology. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.
AB - During the 20th and 21st century, media such as radio, telephone, television, computers and cell phones moved into everyday life as taken-for-granted elements. Based on observations and life-history interviews with 22 older women, this article discusses how media technology is materially involved in the experience of growing old. The analysis reveals two aspects of this. First, different technology stands out from its background presence as problematic because the media no longer enable the experiences they used to. Second, disconnects with and through media technology direct attention towards the declining body. The participants embody ‘old age’ by linking their experience with media to two cultural constructions of material ageing: generation and natural ageing. I argue that inasmuch as everyday life has become mediatized, the experience of growing old also takes place with and through media technology. This article forms part of ‘Media and the Ageing Body’ Special Issue.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Ageing body
KW - cultural ageing
KW - media materiality
KW - mediatization
U2 - 10.1177/1367549417708431
DO - 10.1177/1367549417708431
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 305
EP - 316
JO - European Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - European Journal of Cultural Studies
SN - 1367-5494
IS - 3
ER -
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