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Why Grandma Should Get Online.

By: Cierra, Racheal, and Paige

Relevant Disciplines

Reasons:

Key Words

The Elderly and the Digital divide.

Psychology

Sociology

Economics

Different insights

Different statistics

Different point of views

Different research

"elderly and the digital divide"

"Older population vs. Technology"

"Seniors and social networking"

"Internet difference between the generations"

growing issue

physical enhancement

mental enhancement

References

Mind Sets

Psychology

The psychology portion of the research went into depth about the individuals reactions and experience and how that affected their quality of life.

Sociology

The sociology perspective integrated insights based on how the elderly internet usage will affect their communication skills with the society and how the elderly will be able to enhance seeking skills towards healthcare benefits.

Economics

Gave more insights on how the different technology companies could contribute towards making elderly people access to the internet much easier.

  • Wood, Lamont;The digital Divide: Why Grandma should get online; November 19, 2009
  • MacLeod, Skye; Age and the Digital Divide-Seniors; Bridging The Gap; August 11, 2010
  • Kiel, Joan M;The Digital Divide:Internet and e-mail use by the elderly; 2005, Vol. 30, No. 1 Pages 19-23
  • Stegbauer, Paul; Is the digital divide between young elderly people, October, 3, 2005;Vol.10 No. 10.
  • Jaeger, B. Trapped in the digital Divide? Old People in the information Society; 2004, Vol.17 No.2
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