Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2014
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to set up a theoretical framework that will enable us to see three inter-related phenomena: new media, the way in which they are used by elderly people, and the management of new social risks. Elderly people and the generational aspects in their use of new media - the way they deploy them to deal with new risks - are in the centre of our interest here.
There are no doubts that new media have the potential to increase the quality of life in the old age. I will also argue that both the use of new media and the treatment of new risks bring about accumulation of individualization and that this kind of parallelism eventually presents a massive threat to "ontological security"