GENERATIONAL USE OF NEW MEDIA
Generational Use of New Media
Edited by
EUGNE LOOS
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
LESLIE HADDON
London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK
ENID MANTE-MEIJER
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
Copyright 2012 Eugne Loos, Leslie Haddon and Enid Mante-Meijer
Eugne Loos, Leslie Haddon and Enid Mante-Meijer have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Generational use of new media.
1. Information technologySocial aspects. 2. Internet and youth. 3. Internet and older people. 4. Technology and older people.
I. Loos, Eugene, 1963 II. Haddon, Leslie.
III. Mante-Meijer, E. A., 1939
306.46dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Loos, Eugene, 1963
Generational use of new media / by Eugene Loos, Leslie Haddon, and Enid Mante-Meijer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2657-8 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Information technologySocial aspects. 2. Ability, Influence of age on. 3. Intergenerational relations. I. Haddon, Leslie. II. Mante-Meijer, E. A., 1939 III. Title.
HM851.L664 2012
303.4833dc23
2012000446
ISBN 9781409426578 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315584270 (ebk)
Contents
Eugne Loos, Leslie Haddon and Enid Mante-Meijer
Leslie Haddon
Joke Bauwens
Gustavo Cardoso, Rita Espanha and Tiago Lapa
David Herold
Jan-Erik Hagberg
Dana Chisnell and Janice (Ginny) Redish
Gnther Schreder, Karin Siebenhandl, Eva Mayr and Michael Smuc
Giuseppe Lugano and Peter Peltonen
Alexander van Deursen
Eugne Loos and Enid Mante-Meijer
Eugne Loos, Leslie Haddon and Enid Mante-Meijer
List of Figures
List of Plates
The plates are located at the end of this ebook
1 Heatmap of all older users
2 Heatmap of all younger users
3 Heatmap of all older people using the internet daily
4 Heatmap of all older people not using the internet daily
5 Heatmap of all older users
6 Heatmap of all younger users
7 Heatmap of all older people using the internet daily
8 Heatmap of all older people not using the internet daily
List of Tables
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Editors
Eugne Loos is currently a Professor of Old and New Media in an Ageing Society in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor at the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University. He is also a member of the research schools ASCoR (Amsterdam School of Communication Research) and the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). As a linguist, he has conducted research and written several books, book chapters and journal articles in the field of organisational (intercultural) organisation and the use of new media. Currently his research focuses on the role of new media related to accessible information for older people. He was part of the European network COST 298. He is a reviewer for Ashgate, a member of the Evaluation Board of the European research project Third Age Online (TAO) Community & Collaboration, associated editor of the international peer-reviewed Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, a quarterly academic publication in the field of Communication Studies ( http://obs.obercom.pt ) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communication and Media Technologies ( www.ojcmt.net ). His international books include The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology (Ashgate 2008, co-edited by Haddon and Mante-Meijer), Innovating for and by Users (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 2008, co-edited by Pierson, Mante-Meijer and Sapio) and New Media Technologies and User Empowerment (Peter Lang 2011, co-edited by Pierson and Mante-Meijer). In 2010, Eugne Loos published his inaugural lecture De oudere: een digitale immigrant in eigen land? Een verkenning naar toegankelijke informatievoorziening [Senior citizens: Digital immigrants in their own country? An exploration of information accessibility] (Boom/Lemma 2010), which questions the gap between digital immigrants and digital natives. More at http://www.uu.nl/leg/staff/EFLoos/0
Leslie Haddon teaches part-time at the London School of Economics, where he is currently helping to coordinate the EU Kids Online research project. For over two decades he has worked chiefly on the social shaping and consumption of information and communication technologies. This has covered computers, games, telecoms, telework, intelligent homes, cable TV and mobile telephony and internet use. He was part of the European networks COST 248, 269 and 298. Leslie Haddon has published numerous journal publications, book chapters and has authored, co-authored and co-edited several books including Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction andResearch Guide (Berg 2004), Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs (Springer 2005, co-edited by Mante-Meijer, Sapio, Kommonen, Fortunati and Kant), The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology (Ashgate 2008, co-edited by Loos and Mante-Meijer), Kids Online. Opportunities and Risks for Children (Policy Press 2009, co-edited by Livingstone), Mobile Communications. An Introduction to New Media (Berg 2009, co-edited by Green) and The Contemporary Internet: National and Cross-National Comparative European Studies (Peter Lang 2011).
Enid Mante-Meijer is currently an emeritus Professor in the Utrecht School of Governance at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. As an (organisational) sociologist, she taught methods and techniques of social research at Leiden University, and was, up till March 2002, senior researcher at the Dutch Telecom research department, KPN Research. She was part of the European network COST 248, 269 and 298. In 1999-2002 she was project leader of a large European research project, sponsored by Eurescom, on information and communication technology and users. Since 2005, her main field of research has been consumers of ICT, both in an individual and institutional context. Enid Mantes most recent international books include
