Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security
Vol.6,No.2(2012)
Special issue: Generation and mediated relations
old age; media generation; new media; new risks; ontological security
Irena Carpentier Reifova
Irena Carpentier Reifova, Ph.D, is a lecturer and researcher at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Media Studies. She is a research coordinator and teaches courses on critical media theories, cultural studies and media audiences. Her major scholarly interests are in television popular culture; with a special focus on Czechoslovak and Czech serial television fiction. She is a co-author of a student book on quantitative content analysis, editor of Dictionary of Media Communication, and translates media studies works from English. She is also a lecturer at ECREA Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School.
Sylvie Fišerová
Sylvie Fišerová is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Media Studies, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. She received her master’s degree in Media Studies in 2009 at the same department. The thesis focused on the social use of TV evening news in young families. She is currently working on her PhD project that deals with the usage of new media by middle-aged people in the Czech Republic. Her research interests include social use of media, digital divides, media generations, and use of new media by specific age groups – especially middle aged people and elderly people.
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