Exploring the Benefits of Proactive Participation among Adults and Older People by Writing Blogs
| Autor: | Roger Montserrat, Montserrat Celdrán, Rodrigo Serrat, Feliciano Villar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gerontology
Aged 80 and over Nursing (miscellaneous) Blogging business.industry Communication Writing education Identity (social science) Cognition Personal Satisfaction Variety (cybernetics) User experience design Information and Communications Technology Spain ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY Humans ICTS Thematic analysis Older people Psychology business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Aged |
| Zdroj: | Journal of gerontological social work. 65(3) |
| ISSN: | 1540-4048 |
| Popis: | The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for information-seeking, social contact and leisure activities is increasing in adults and older people. However, little is known about adults and older people who are already actively using ICTs to write a blog. The aim of this paper is to describe the benefits adults and older people gain from having a blog. Twenty-three older adult bloggers (aged 60-83 years; most of them with college degrees and retired) from Spain who, at the time of the study had an active blog were interviewed. A thematic analysis identified four different benefits related to blogging: (1) a general sense of satisfaction from producing the blog; (2) relational benefits; (3) cognitive benefits; and (4) identity benefits. Results showed that adults and older people experienced a variety of benefits that broadens the distinction between personal and social benefits found in previous research. Blogging in later life challenges the traditional passive/consumer and online user experience view of adults and older people and seems to be a good example of proactive participation through websites. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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