Socio-gerontechnology : Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Note on contributors -- Note on editors -- 1 Socio-gerontechnology: key themes, future agendas -- 2 Age, actors and agency: what we can learn from Age Studies and STS for the development of Socio-gerontechnology -- PART I Bridges: critical frameworks of ageing and technology -- 3 Fragile robots and coincidental innovation: turning Socio-gerontechnology towards ontology -- 4 Topographies of ageing: a new materialist analysis of ageing-in-place -- 5 Elderliness: the agential inseparability of ageing and assistive technologies -- 6 Civilising technologies for an ageing society? The performativity of participatory methods in Socio-gerontechnology -- 7 Agents or actants: what technology might make of later life? -- 8 Commentary: re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus -- PART II Encounters: empirical approaches to ageing and technology -- 9 'Send me a WhatsApp when you arrive home': mediated practices of caring about -- 10 Making and unmaking ageing-in-place: towards a co-constructive understanding of ageing and place -- 11 Age matters: senior exclusions, designing consultations and a municipal action plan for age-(un)friendly cities -- 12 Dementia scripts -- 13 Between repair and bricolage: digital entanglements and fragile connections in dementia care work in Denmark -- 14 Commentary: encountering ageing, science and technology - whose future? Whose definition of ageing? -- PART III Design: critical reflections and new approaches -- 15 Configuring the older adult: how age and ageing are re-configured in gerontechnology design -- 16 Co-designing technologies for care: spaces of co-habitation -- 17 How have user representations been sustained and recreated in the design of technologies between 1960 and 2020?