[ecrea] CFP Ageing in Network Society

We’re pleased to announce an upcoming issue of /Networking Knowledge:
Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network/

(http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/announcement/view/35)

In the new global and network society, greater challenges have been
posed by demographic changes in the labour workforce and in the
complexity of social interactions and neighbourhood ties (Bond, Peace,
Dittmann-Kohli, & Westerhof, 2007; Bowling, 2005).

Previous studies (e.g. Costa, 2013; Cabrera, & Malanowski, 2009; De
Schutter & Vanden Abeele, 2008; Felsted, & Wright, 2014) have suggested
that Information and Communication technologies have a crucial role in
overcoming these challenges by facilitating the meaning attributed to
information and thus strengthening age identity (Hubble, & Tew, 2013)
and encouraging prosocial behaviors, the sense of social connectedness
and of purposefulness. In fact, increasingly mobile network societies
have been suggested to change the way people exercise their minds
(Johnson, 2006) and how they communicate.

Although these networks tend to bring flexibility, adaptability and
global transformation (Castells, 2001), intergenerational gaps in the
access of information and social digital divides are likely to persist.

If the generation who lived with ‘old media’ (i.e. cable TV, radio,
press) are now ‘digital immigrants’ (Prensky, 2012) overcoming
generational learning, communication and authority gaps,  the culture of
new media (i.e. Internet, iPTV, video games) will need to be rethought
in terms of accessibility as a participatory culture (Fisk, Rogers,
Charness, et al., 2009; Sixsmith, & Gutman,2013), one that is in demand
of both the convergence of media and of generation networks. In this
special issue, we seek to explore the role of information and
communication technologies in encouraging the development of networked
older adults. Towards this aim, we invite submissions in the following
(non-exclusive) list of topics:

-       The use of social media in late adulthood

-       Age-friendly technologies

-       The power of networks in ageing

-       Older adults’ interactions with new media

-       Networked video games for the older adults

-       Ageing in networked and smart cities

-       Caregiver social networks

-       ICT-based solutions to the demands of an ageing society

-       Accessibility

-       The digital divide

-       Intergenerational learning


*References:*

Bond, J., Peace, S., Dittmann-Kohli, F., & Westerhof, G. J. (2007).
/Ageing in society: European perspectives on gerontology/. London: Sage.

Bowling, A. (2005). /Ageing well: Quality of life in old age/.
McGraw-Hill International.

Castells, M. (2001). The Internet galaxy: Reflections on the Internet,
business, and society. Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN: 0199241538

Cabrera, M., & Malanowski, N. (Eds.). (2009). /Information and
communication technologies for active ageing: Opportunities and
challenges for the European union/ (Vol. 23). IOS Press.

Costa (2013). /Networked video games for older adults/. Master’s thesis.
University of Aveiro. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/XytV1n

De Schutter, & Vanden Abeele (2008). Meaningful Play in Elderly Life.
/Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association. /Ed.58.
Canada: Montereal

Felsted, K. F., & Wright, S. D. (2014). /Toward Post Ageing: Technology
in an Ageing Society/ (Vol. 1). Springer.

Fisk, A. D., Rogers, W. A., Charness, N., Czaja, S. J., & Sharit, J.
(2009). /Designing for older adults: Principles and creative human
factors approaches/. CRC press.

Hubble & Tew (2013) /Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative
Social Research, /Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Johnson, S. (2006). /Everything bad is good for you/. Penguin: New York.
ISBN 1-57322-307-7

Prensky, M. R. (2012). /From digital natives to digital wisdom: Hopeful
essays for 21st century learning/. Corwin Press. ISBN: 978-1-4522-3009-2

Sixsmith, A., & Gutman, G. M. (2013). /Technologies for Active Aging/.
New York: Springer.


*The special issue will consist of around 5-8 articles. All papers 
will
undergo peer review.*

*Submit any queries to:
 Liliana Costa ((lilianavale /at/ ua.pt)
<mailto:(lilianavale /at/ ua.pt)>)*


*Deadlines: *

*January 15, 2016: Abstract submission (500 words)*

*Submit abstracts to:
 Liliana Costa ((lilianavale /at/ ua.pt)
<mailto:(lilianavale /at/ ua.pt)>)*

*Initial notification sent to authors:
 February 10, 2016*

*Paper submission: July 15, 2016*

*Author guidelines:
http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions*

*Submission of full papers to: Liliana Costa ((lilianavale /at/ ua.pt)
<mailto:(lilianavale /at/ ua.pt)>)*



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