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Lookup NU author(s): Arlind Reuter, Professor Thomas Scharf, Dr Jan SmeddinckORCiD
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by ACM , 2021.
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In increasingly digitalised societies, government initiatives to ensure that public services remain accessible for everyone typically focus on the digital inclusion of older adults. However, by solely viewing older adults as passive recipients or consumers of services, digital inclusion strategies under-emphasise the concept of digital participation. Highlighting the importance of older adults as active contributors in a digital society, we investigated the potential of content creation to increase older adults’ digital skills whilst also strengthening their digital participation. Through a workshop and interviews involving three different groups of older content producers, we show that content creation can stimulate older adults’ digital participation. We report on challenges faced by the content creators, including time constraints, lack of professional support and the preference to create content collaboratively. We propose that by facilitating collaborative content creation activities, local communities can better support older adults’ digital participation and facilitate inclusion across different life domains.
Author(s): Reuter A, Scharf T, Smeddinck J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Year: 2021
Volume: CSCW 3
Print publication date: 01/01/2021
Acceptance date: 01/06/2020
Date deposited: 12/11/2020
ISSN (electronic): 2573-0142
Publisher: ACM
URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3434166
DOI: 10.1145/3434166
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