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