Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part I)

Monday, 7 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES005 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
WG10 Digital Sociology (host committee)
RC03 Community Research
RC06 Family Research
RC07 Futures Research
RC11 Sociology of Aging
TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice

Language: English

The session focuses on the main problems older adults have in adapting to digital technology. How diverse and often non-user-friendly digital apps and devices engender older men and women's enjoyment of the human right to dignify ageing, autonomy, and overall thriving? Even though the „truth“ of the life cycle is inevitably one of stability and predictability, digitally enforced constant change puts the elderly cohort under pressure to adjust to an ever-changing, technically conditioned life continuously. Ableism and agism saturated violence against serenity and habituated living, bringing insecurity and destabilisation from outside and within, making them feel not only bodily but mentally inadequate to live in dignity as they failed to keep pace with a digitally frenzied world. Where is justice in all this?
Session Organizers:
Ana VUKOVIC, Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK, University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences, Serbia
Chair:
Ana VUKOVIC, Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia
Oral Presentations
Interplay between Law and Virtualization of Modern Society in Relation to Population Ageing
Maja LUKIC RADOVIC, Serbia
The Digital Revolution: A Threat or a Blessing for Older Peoples’ Access to the Law (from Inclusion to Exclusion)
Barbé VANESSA, France; Stephanie MAUCLAIR, France
Home As Assemblage: A More Just Approach to Technology-Enabled Ageing in Place?
Ruhamah THEJUS, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Technostress As an Obstacle to Dignified Aging in the Digital Age
Galit NIMROD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Technostress and Coping Strategies of Older Academics: Findings of Scoping Review
Jolanta PIVORIENE, Mykolas Romeris university, Lithuania; Sylwia PRZYTUŁA, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland; Funda ERGÜLEÇ, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey; Silvana CRIVOI, Romania; Cristina Maria TOFAN, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, “Gheorghe Zane” Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch, Romania, Romania
Older People's Perception of the Use of Personal Data By Private Health Services.
Ana RIVOIR, Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay; Maria julia MORALES, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
‘Someone Makes Videos and Gets the Money for It’ - Agency of Older Tiktokers in Digital Capitalism
Edit PAULÓ, Hungary; Regina GRADWOHL, ELTE Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
Distributed Papers
Examining the Inhibitors of Wearable Health Technology Adoption Among Older Adults
Ms. LEENA, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, India
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