Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F12%3A10123954" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/12:10123954 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2012-2-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2012-2-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2012-2-5" target="_blank" >10.5817/CP2012-2-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security

Original language description

This article proposes a theoretical framework for studying new media and its use by elderly people in risk society. Old people and their practices of new media use are discussed in light of the concepts of age cohort, generation and media generation. Thearticle detects homology between individualization (a backbone of the second modernity as defined by Ulrich Beck) in the management of new risks and operation of new media language. Consequently, the concept of "double individualization of responsibility" is coined and connection is made to the effects of new media and new risks on ontological security. The argument is taken further onto the ground of critical gerontology, which claims that individual decision-making and fluidity of the second modernity is a source of insecurity and anxiety mainly for the old people. The article eventually presents the area of e-health as a research field for further exploration of how old people experience autonomy, individual decision making, and the

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cyberpsychology

ISSN

1802-7962

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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