Title |
Going gray, failure to hire, and the ick factor: Analyzing how older bloggers talk about Ageism |
Authors |
Lazar, A., Diaz, M., Brewer, R., Kim, C., Piper, A.M. |
Author Affiliations |
Northwestern University |
Publication Information |
Association for Computing Machinery |
Date of Publication |
2017 |
Key words |
Ageism; older adults; blogging; collective action |
Abstract |
Ageism is a pervasive, and often invisible, form of discrimination. Though it can affect people of all ages, older adults in particular face age-related stereotypes and bias in their everyday lives. In this paper, we describe the ways in which older bloggers articulate a collective narrative on ageism as it appears in their lives, develop a community with anti-ageist interests, and discuss strategies to navigate and change societal views and institutions. Bloggers criticize stereotypical notions that focus exclusively on losses that occur with age and advocate a view that takes into account the complexity and positive aspects of older adulthood. This paper contributes a unique case of online collective action among older adults while drawing on their online discourse as a way of understanding what ageism means for CSCW. |
주요 내용 |
연령 차별은 pervasive, and often invisible한 형태의 차별이다. 모든 연령대의 사람들에게 영향을 미칠 수 있지만, 특히 노인은 일상 생활에서 연령과 관련된 고정 관념과 편견에 직면한다. 이 논문에서는 노인 블로거가 자신의 삶에 나타나는 연령 차별에 대한 집단적 내러티브를 표현하고, 반 연령주의 관심사를 가진 커뮤니티를 개발하고,사회적 견해와 제도를 탐색하고 변경하기위한 전략을 논의하는 방법을 설명한다. |
ISBN |
9781450343350 |
DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998275 |