This semester, Dr. Ratzenböck’s class “Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (ACT Longitudinal Study – Older Audiences in the Digital Media Environment)” explores what it means to grow old in the digital era. In doing so, the class reads papers based on the analysis of data from the ‘ACT Longitudinal Study: Older Audiences in the Digital Media Environment’ (https://actproject.ca/act/longitudinal-study/) and discusses them with the authors, all renowned experts in the field of aging and technology studies.
All interested in joining the class’s paper discussions sessions can send an e-mail to barbara.ratzenboeck(at)uni-graz.at to sign up and receive the Webex link for the meetings:
Thursday, 06.05.2021 13.45 pm – Intro: Discussion and Reading of: “Gallistl, Vera and Nimrod, Galit (2020). Media-Based Leisure and Wellbeing: A Study of Older Internet Users, Leisure Studies, 39(2), 251–265.” 14.30 pm - Discussion with Dr. Vera Gallistl (University of Vienna) |
Thursday, 20.05.2021 13.45 pm – Intro: Discussion and Reading of: “Ivan, Loredana, Loos, Eugène, and Bird, Ioana (2020). The impact of technology generations on older adults’ media use: Review of previous empirical research and a seven country comparison, Gerontechnology, 19(4), 1-19 https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2020.19.04.387” 14.30 pm - Discussion with Prof. Loredana Ivan (National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest) |
Thursday, 27.05.2021 13.45 pm – Intro: Discussion and Reading of: “Rosales, Andrea and Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia (2019). “Smartphone usage diversity amongst older people.” In Sergio Sayago (Ed.), Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction research with older people (pp. 51–66). Cham: Springer. 14.30 pm - Discussion with Dr. Andrea Rosales and Dr. Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona) |
