Socio-Gerontechnology

Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field Socio-gerontechnology this book explores common conceptual theoretical and methodological ideas that become visible in the critical scholarship on ageing and technology at the intersection of Age Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS)prised of 15 original chapters three commentaries and an afterword the book explores how ageing and technology are already interconnected and constantly being intertwined in Western societies. Topics addressed cover a broad variety of socio-material domains including care robots the use of social media ageing-in-place technologies the performativity of user involvement and public consultations dementia care and many others. Together they provide a unique understanding of ageing and technology from a social sciences and humanities perspective and contribute to the development of new ontologies methodologies and theories that might serve as both critique of and inspiration for policy and designternational in scope including contributions from the United Kingdom Canada the United States Australia Germany Norway Denmark Austria the Netherlands Spain and Sweden Socio-gerontechnology is an agenda-setting text that will provide an introduction for students and early career researchers as well as for more established scholars who are interested in ageing and technology.Chapters 3 5 and 15 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.