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Seniors and cyberspace — some critical reflections on computers and older persons
Author(s)	David Glanz
Journal title	Education and Ageing, vol 12, nos 1/2, November 1997
Pages	pp 69-81
Keywords	Information technology ; Computers ; Literature reviews ; United States of America ; Israel ; Conference proceedings.
Annotation	In a survey of the literature from Israel and the US on the relationship between computers and older people, the author shows that although he is considering a "new phenomenon", there is a range of essentially sociological perspectives and methods offering illumination. Computers and cyberspace have self-evident roles in education, technology, commerce, government and the like. They are also relevant to older people, as they constrain and enable access to usable knowledge. A key section on the "moral economy of senior cyberspace" asks whether our present societal orientations to computers contribute to older people's empowerment. This paper was presented at the Association for Educational Gerontology (AEG) Annual Conference at Keele University in July 1997. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980811211 A
Classmark	UVB: 3O: 64A: 7T: 7H6: 6M
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