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Using the World Wide Web as a teaching tool — analyzing images of aging and the visual needs of an aging society
Author(s)	Patricia Jakobi
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 6, September 1999
Pages	pp 581-594
Keywords	Ageing process ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Information technology ; Computers ; Teaching aids.
Annotation	An Internet web site uses images to attract its intended or desired audience, to represent its clientele, to serve as a symbol of its goal or purpose, and for various other reasons. This article looks at how ageing-related pages on the Internet reflect various conceptions and uses of age. The author stresses the importance of designing Web sites that recognise common physical and psychosocial limitations associated with ageing. Specifically she examines a selection of Web pages and their use of representational images of ageing, and how these pages which seem to be targeting an older audience can be designed to accommodate common problems - in this case visual problems - associated with ageing. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-991022215 A
Classmark	BG: TOB: UVB: 3O: VF
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