Place-Making through Media
How Media Environments Make a Difference for Long-Term Care Residents’ Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13024549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Wagner (0000-0003-2659-900X, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-27 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Societies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2075-4698 • E-ISSN: 2075-4698 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/soc12010027 |
| OpenAlex | W4213092598 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
This paper explores the unique relationships care home residents have with communication media. Drawing on findings from an ethnographic case study at a long-term care site in British Columbia, Canada, I describe how care home residents’ everyday media practices are intertwined with their negotiations of longstanding attachments and new living spaces. The research draws connections between the spatiotemporal contexts of media use and residents’ experiences of social agency. Long-term care residents in this research were challenged to engage with the wider community, maintain friendships, or stay current with events and politics because their preferred ways of using communication media were not possible in long-term care. The communication inequalities experienced by care home residents were not simply about their lack of access to media or content but about their inability to find continuity with their established media habits in terms of time and place. While most research about communication media in care homes has been intervention oriented, this research suggests that long-term care service and funding policies require greater attention to create flexible, diverse, and supportive media environments
Agency (philosophy · Business · Ethnography · Long-term care · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Service (business · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Technology Use by Older Adults · Marketing
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |