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      Digital Media Usage Across the Life Course
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      Digital Media Usage Across the Life Course book

      Edited ByPaul G. Nixon, Rajash Rawal, Andreas Funk
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 18 July 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577197
      Pages 216
      eBook ISBN 9781315577197
      Subjects Humanities, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences
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      Nixon, P.G., Rawal, R., & Funk, A. (Eds.). (2016). Digital Media Usage Across the Life Course (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577197

      ABSTRACT

      New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman declared the modern age in which we live as the ’age of distraction’ in 2006. The basis of his argument was that technology has changed the ways in which our minds function and our capacity to dedicate ourselves to any particular task. Others assert that our attention spans and ability to learn have been changed and that the use of media devices has become essential to many people’s daily lives and indeed the impulse to use technology is harder to resist than unwanted urges for eating, alcohol or sex.

      This book seeks to portray the see-saw like relationship that we have with technology and how that relationship impacts upon our lived lives. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives that cross traditional subject boundaries we examine the ways in which we both react to and are, to an extent, shaped by the technologies we interact with and how we construct the relationships with others that we facilitate via the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) be it as discreet online only relationships or the blending of ICTs enabled communication with real life co present interactions.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |15 pages

      Introduction: Digital Media Usage Across the Life Course

      ByPAUL G. NIXON, RAJASH RAWAL, ANDREAS FUNK

      chapter 1|13 pages

      The Internet through the ages

      ByWILLIAM H. DUTTON, BIANCA C. REISDORF

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Singularity: a double bind?

      ByRAJASH RAWAL, PAUL G. NIXON

      chapter 3|8 pages

      Citizenship in the virtual public sphere: reasonableness as a modus vivendi for life online

      ByANDREAS FUNK

      chapter 4|17 pages

      Birth through the digital womb: visualizing prenatal life online

      ByYUKARI SEKO, KATRIN TIIDENBERG

      chapter 5|17 pages

      Digital by default: growing into your digital footprint

      ByVANESSA P. DENNEN

      chapter 6|12 pages

      “That’s so unfair!”: navigating the teenage online experience

      ByABIGAIL PHILLIPS

      chapter 7|11 pages

      Living social: comparing social media use in your 20s and 30s

      ByNATALIE PENNINGTON

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Blurring boundaries: social media and boundary maintenance at midlife

      ByKELLY QUINN

      chapter 9|11 pages

      Retrospective narratives about life with anxiety: considering the role of the Internet for sufferers across the life course

      ByCATHERINE BROOKS

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Older adults and social media: foreshadowing challenges of the digital future?

      ByKELLY QUINN

      chapter 11|14 pages

      Googling grannies: how technology use can improve health and well-being in aging populations

      ByELIZABETH YOST, VICKI WINSTEAD, RONALD W. BERKOWSKY

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Physical death in the digital age

      BySTINE GOTVED

      chapter 13|17 pages

      On deathcasting: alone together on the edge of death

      ByYUKARI SEKO
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