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Ageing and Interpersonal Communication
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Ageing and Interpersonal Communication

A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2020) | Viewed by 8415

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Dr. Loredana Ivan

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Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, 012244 București, Romania
Interests: interpersonal communication; interpersonal communication mediated by technology; ageing and interpersonal communication; ageing and communication technologies; qualitative methodologies
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Dear Colleagues,

Societies is now seeking manuscripts for a Special Issue: ‘Ageing and Interpersonal Communication’.

Interpersonal communication is considered a key ability that helps us to function in society and lead a healthy and fulfilling life. It is also regarded as the process of using social interactions to learn and to enhance our potential beyond the immediate restraints of our social environment. The way we interact with each other, the intensity, and the quality of our interactions have been researched in relation to various social–psychological variables—such as our social cognitions, group behavior, or personality traits (e.g., communication style)—and consequences for our personal and professional life. Recently, the pervasiveness of ICT has brought a new dimension to studying Interpersonal Communication. The perpetual interconnectedness facilitated by social network sites creates new challenges for the way we reflect, listen, explain, negotiate, and reinforce our interactions with others, including family, friends and acquaintances, colleagues, and care providers.

This Special Issue brings a life course approach to Interpersonal Communication. The natural aging process can bring important challenges to establishing social contacts and communicating with others. As we age, we create fewer new social contacts, we witness our children and grandchildren lead mature and independent lives, and we take on new social roles (such as grandparents). Older adults learn to equip themselves for these new roles they play on the societal stage.

This Special Issue aims to bring together contributions that explore the challenges and opportunities for interpersonal communication later in life, and shed light on the role of perpetual connectivity in understanding ‘aging with others’ in the network society. We invite you to submit original manuscripts of diverse types: Original research, systematic reviews, and theoretical papers, which address the relationship between aging and interpersonal communication from a life course perspective: Intergenerational communication, communication with peers, family communication, grandparenting, communication between older adults and care providers, focusing on barriers and opportunities created by new technologies.

Dr. Loredana Ivan
Guest Editor

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The Teletalker – A Design Researcher’s Tool to Explore Intergenerational Online Video Connectivity in-the-Wild
by Marianne Markowski
Societies 2020, 10(1), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10010025 - 10 Mar 2020
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Although a fair amount of research around older adults’ perception of digital technology exists, there is only a moderate amount of research investigating older people’s reactions and sense-making in real-world contexts with emerging digital tools. This paper reports on the constructivist research approach [...] Read more.
Although a fair amount of research around older adults’ perception of digital technology exists, there is only a moderate amount of research investigating older people’s reactions and sense-making in real-world contexts with emerging digital tools. This paper reports on the constructivist research approach used by the author, which initiated co-production with participants to gather older and younger adults’ reactions towards digital video connectivity during a series of design research interventions. For this, the author had built a research tool, the Teletalker kiosks (TT), which connected two locations using digital live video to provide a ‘window into the other space’. Participants, if they wished, could activate the volume with a designed mechanism aimed at non-computer literate people, which was used in order to speak to each other. The three connections were between an older people’s charity day centre and the university, between two locations at the university, and between two-day centres in the U.K. The returns collected revealed overall positive reactions towards video connectivity by younger adults and mixed reactions by older adults. The design for the volume mechanism did not work as expected for both groups. The interventions also brought out opinions and conformity dynamics within groups of older adults and attitudes by younger audiences towards older people. More research is needed to understand these reactions and attitudes in comparable contexts. Full article
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“Old Church Women”: An Insight into the Less Understood and Their Contribution to the Life of the Orthodox Church
by Lavinia Țânculescu
Societies 2019, 9(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc9030063 - 3 Sep 2019
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In this study, I aim to explore the role of old women in the life of the Christian Orthodox Church in the Romanian space. The analysis is based on empirical evidence (qualitative fieldwork and case studies) gathered between 2017 and 2019, and it [...] Read more.
In this study, I aim to explore the role of old women in the life of the Christian Orthodox Church in the Romanian space. The analysis is based on empirical evidence (qualitative fieldwork and case studies) gathered between 2017 and 2019, and it mainly employs the framework of theory of tradition, and theories of attachment and of parent–infant relationship. I will show that old women going to church have a double role: To educate the community in keeping the religious tradition, and to initiate other members, especially the very young ones (blood-related or not), in the Romanian Orthodox faith. The paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages offered by both aforementioned roles, putting forth possible explanations for the tensions arising between generations. I conclude by underlining the crucial role that old women have in today’s struggle for survival of the Romanian Orthodox Church and in its spiritual identity. Full article
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