Nordicom Review 38 (S1) 2017

Being Old in the Age of Mediatization

Christa Lykke Christensen
, 
Line Nybro Petersen
 (Eds.)
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This special issue of Nordicom Review examines media dynamics in the lives of older people and how these dynamics influence the perceptions of old age, ageing and older people.

Articles

Introduction: Being Old in the Age of Mediatization
Christa Lykke Christensen, Line Nybro Petersen
Healthy Ageing and Mediated Health Expertise
Christa Lykke Christensen
‘Generation Conviviality’: The Role of Media Logic in Television Production for Elderly Audiences
Line Nybro Petersen
Maintaining Connections: Octo- and Nonagenarians on Digital ‘Use and Non-use’
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, Kim Sawchuk, Line Grenier
Growing Old with Mediatization: Reflexivity and Sense of Agency
Cecilie Givskov
The Community-Based Information Infrastructure of Older Adult Digital Learning: A Study of Public Libraries and Senior Centers in a Medium-sized City in the USA
Noah Lenstra
Digital Equality and the Uptake of Digital Applications among Seniors of Different Age
Annika Bergström
Why Ageing is More Important than Being Old Understanding the Elderly in a Mediatized World
Thorsten Naab, Christian Schwarzenegger
A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People
Andreas Hepp, Matthias Berg, Cindy Roitsch
Cover of Nordicom Review 38 (Special Issue 1) 2017.

About the Journal

Name: Nordicom Review
Year established: 1980
Subject area: Social Sciences/Communication
Language: English
Format: Digital-only Open Access
Frequency: 2 issues per year
eISSN: 2001-5119
CiteScore: 2.8 (2023)
Journal Impact Factor: 2.0 (2023)