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Granny @ Work: Aging and New Technology on the Job in America
Author(s): Karen E. Riggs (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: November 13, 2003
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415965837
- ISBN-13: 9780415965835
Book Description
Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today’s technology-driven workplace.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Extremely well-written, accessible, and logically argued…This book will fill a key, but essentially overlooked area in studies of technology, media, and culture…Riggs considers human subjects and communities in a manner that might actually change the ways that scholars generalize about the impact of new technologies.” — John T. Caldwell, UCLA
About the Author
Karen E. Riggs is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. She is author of Mature Audiences: Television in the Lives of Elders.
