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Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued....This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture....Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.
–John T. Caldwell, UCLA
Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued....This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture....Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.
–John T. Caldwell, UCLA
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The advancing age of Baby Boomers has generated an upsurge of older workers. And as this aging workforce encounters radical technological changes, it faces increasingly tumultuous work environments.
In Granny @ Work, Karen E. Riggs--a renowned expert on aging-shows how employers, software engineers, and public policy makers are thinking about the roles older adults might play in the workplace of the future-and asks whether those on the front lines of corporate life are actually looking out for the interests of a graying workforce. She also examines dominant beliefs about aging and technology as seen in popular culture, ranging from films like Cocoon and Space Cowboys to specialty websites and magazines aimed at older workers.
Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today's technology-driven workplace.
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Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued....This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture....Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.
–John T. Caldwell, UCLA
Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued....This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture....Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.
–John T. Caldwell, UCLA
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The advancing age of Baby Boomers has generated an upsurge of older workers. And as this aging workforce encounters radical technological changes, it faces increasingly tumultuous work environments.
In Granny @ Work, Karen E. Riggs--a renowned expert on aging-shows how employers, software engineers, and public policy makers are thinking about the roles older adults might play in the workplace of the future-and asks whether those on the front lines of corporate life are actually looking out for the interests of a graying workforce. She also examines dominant beliefs about aging and technology as seen in popular culture, ranging from films like Cocoon and Space Cowboys to specialty websites and magazines aimed at older workers.
Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today's technology-driven workplace.
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This book explores the contours of old age as it meets up with new technologies in contexts of work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elder characters, ageist practices, aging workers, young geek, longevity revolution, productive aging, aging world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Baby Boomers, United States, African American, Social Security, New York, Aging Horizons, Modern Maturity, Generation Xers, United Kingdom, Sean Connery, Space Cowboys, War Games, World War, Jon Voight, Never Say Never Again, Star Trek, Black Rocket, Child Becomes the Father, Harry Caul, Patrick Stewart, Team Daedalus, Working Options, Bill Gates, Bruce Willis, Century Fox New!
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This book explores the contours of old age as it meets up with new technologies in contexts of work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elder characters, ageist practices, aging workers, young geek, longevity revolution, productive aging, aging world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Baby Boomers, United States, African American, Social Security, New York, Aging Horizons, Modern Maturity, Generation Xers, United Kingdom, Sean Connery, Space Cowboys, War Games, World War, Jon Voight, Never Say Never Again, Star Trek, Black Rocket, Child Becomes the Father, Harry Caul, Patrick Stewart, Team Daedalus, Working Options, Bill Gates, Bruce Willis, Century Fox New!
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- Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J Haraway in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ageing and Popular Culture by Andrew Blaikie in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir on page 1, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Michel Foucault the Will to Truth (Social Science Paperbacks) by Sheridan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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