Vera Gallistl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4274615 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vera Gallistl |
| NOMBRES | Vera |
| APELLIDO | Gallistl |
| FIRMA | GALLISTL V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0116-0677 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
AI-Ageing Assemblages
Algorithmic technologies and big data infrastructures, commonly known as artificial intelligence (AI), have become increasingly relevant in the lives of older adults. This article seeks to engage with new ways of theorising the relationships between AI and ageing by viewing these relationships not as interventions but as assemblages. We highlight the manifold sociomaterial associations that exist between ageing and AI and empirically explore AI-a…
Caring for data in later life – the datafication of ageing as a matter of care
This article examines the datafication of ageing by drawing on a practice approach toward care.We describe the datafication of ageing as a matter of care, achieved through the local tinkering of actorstechnology designers, care staff, older adults, and highlighting the practices necessary to develop, maintain and implement data infrastructures.This paper draws on research conducted in a qualitative interview study in a LTC facility that uses AI-s…
Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries
Vulnerability Assemblages
“Vulnerability” is one of the terms recently used to discuss ethical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). Current discussions on AI vulnerability tend to individualize vulnerability, largely neglecting its political dimensions, which are rooted in systems of inequality and disadvantage. This article draws on data from a multiple-perspective qualitative interview study to explore how notions of vulnerability underpin the development and implem…
Precarious ageing in a global pandemic – older adults' experiences of being at risk due to Covid-19
Health authorities worldwide address older adults as a risk group for more serious illness and health complications associated with COVID-19, while social gerontologists have warned that addressing older adults as a risk group of COVID-19 bears the risk of reinforcing ageism. This paper empirically explores to what extent older adults perceive themselves as part of a COVID-19 risk group and how these perceptions influence their everyday lives and…
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life
Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality in shaping later life by framing them as spaceti…
Older adults’ reasons to participate in digital skills learning
The rapid development of digital technologies and their increasing application in many areas of everyday life challenge all citizens to continuously learn digital skills. This also applies to older adults, among whom digital literacy is on average less well-developed than among younger adults. This article investigates why retired older adults participate in opportunities to learn digital skills. Multiple case design with both qualitative and qua…
A Multilevel Model of Older Adults’ Appropriation of ICT and Acquisition of Digital Literacy
Digital literacy refers to a set of competencies related to the skilled use of computers and information technology. Low digital skills can be a barrier for older adults' full participation in a digital society, and COVID-19 has increased this risk of social exclusion. Older adults' digital inclusion is a complex process that consists of the interplay of structural and individual factors. The ACCESS project unwrapped the complexity of the process…
Covid-19 as a “Digital Push?” Research Experiences From Long-Term Care and Recommendations for the Post-pandemic Era
Health authorities and governments worldwide label older adults as a "risk group" for more serious and possibly fatal illness associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (1). Those older adults living in long-term care (LTC) are considered especially prone to more serious and fatal disease following a COVID-19 infection (2). Consequently, measures requiring LTC residents to shelter in place and maintain physical distancing from others have been enacted…
Learning with and about Digital Technology in Later Life
Literature has widely explored the learning processes with information and communication technology (ICT) in later life, mostly focusing on the individual learner rather than materialities—such as smartphones, notepads, and handouts. The aim of this paper is to introduce a socio-material perspective by focusing on the question: What role do materialities play in digital learning processes in later life? This paper draws upon a situation analysis …
But at the age of 85? Forget it!”
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users
Gerontological literature has widely explored barriers to technology use in later life, often drawing upon binary conceptualizations of "using" and "not using" a certain technological device. However, such concepts have been increasingly up for debate. Using a praxeological approach, this study aims to explore technology use and non-use in later life not as dichotomous counterparts, but as routine experiences that take place in the everyday lives…
What's it worth? Value and valuation of late-life creativity
New interest in late-life creativity has arisen in gerontology. To date, such research has mainly focused on the positive impact creativity has on older adults, but has scarcely contextualised older adults’ creative engagement. Drawing on the sociology of valuation, this article aims to contextualise late-life creativity by critically exploring how creativity gains, stabilises and loses its value and how these processes are related to perceptions…
Covid-19
Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use of digital technologies has been regarded as the alternative to maintain economic and social activities. This paper aims to describe the design and im…
Configuring the Older Non-User
Older adults face significant barriers when accessing the Internet. What can be done to address these barriers? This article analyses existing strategies to tackle the age-related digital divide on three different levels: research, policy and practice. It analyses (1) scientific conceptualisations that are used when studying Internet use and non-use in later life, (2) policies that address older adults’ Internet (non-)use in Austria and (3) chara…
Media-Based Leisure and Wellbeing
Studies exploring digital technology in the context of leisure for older people tend to neglect their parallel use of traditional media. By simultaneous examination of both online and offline recreational media use, the present study explores media-based leisure repertoires and wellbeing among older Internet users. Data were collected via a survey of 10,527 Internet users aged 60 and up from seven countries (Austria, Canada, Denmark, Israel, the …
Representing the ‘older end user’? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of ‘active and assisted living’
As digital technologies have gained vast relevance in contemporary societies, technological assistance and support has also become an important topic in the field of care. Despite the fact that older adults are often framed as ‘laggards’ in the innovation process, they have become one major target group for technology development. This poses challenges to care recipients and infrastructures, but also to research in the field of gerontechnologies.…
Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging With Technology
Digital technologies have gained vast relevance in postmodern societies and digital infrastructures are substantially integrated into the everyday lives of older people. This digitization is reframing the norms and practices of later life as well as the social construct of age itself. Despite the increasing amount of studies in the field of aging and technologies, it still lacks theorizing. This paper addresses this deficit, suggesting that the s…
The emergence of the creative ager – On subject cultures of late-life creativity
But at the age of 85? Forget it!”
Media-Based Leisure and Wellbeing
Studies exploring digital technology in the context of leisure for older people tend to neglect their parallel use of traditional media. By simultaneous examination of both online and offline recreational media use, the present study explores media-based leisure repertoires and wellbeing among older Internet users. Data were collected via a survey of 10,527 Internet users aged 60 and up from seven countries (Austria, Canada, Denmark, Israel, the …
Configuring the Older Non-User
Older adults face significant barriers when accessing the Internet. What can be done to address these barriers? This article analyses existing strategies to tackle the age-related digital divide on three different levels: research, policy and practice. It analyses (1) scientific conceptualisations that are used when studying Internet use and non-use in later life, (2) policies that address older adults’ Internet (non-)use in Austria and (3) chara…
Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging With Technology
Digital technologies have gained vast relevance in postmodern societies and digital infrastructures are substantially integrated into the everyday lives of older people. This digitization is reframing the norms and practices of later life as well as the social construct of age itself. Despite the increasing amount of studies in the field of aging and technologies, it still lacks theorizing. This paper addresses this deficit, suggesting that the s…
Older adults’ reasons to participate in digital skills learning
The rapid development of digital technologies and their increasing application in many areas of everyday life challenge all citizens to continuously learn digital skills. This also applies to older adults, among whom digital literacy is on average less well-developed than among younger adults. This article investigates why retired older adults participate in opportunities to learn digital skills. Multiple case design with both qualitative and qua…
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users
Gerontological literature has widely explored barriers to technology use in later life, often drawing upon binary conceptualizations of "using" and "not using" a certain technological device. However, such concepts have been increasingly up for debate. Using a praxeological approach, this study aims to explore technology use and non-use in later life not as dichotomous counterparts, but as routine experiences that take place in the everyday lives…
Covid-19
Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use of digital technologies has been regarded as the alternative to maintain economic and social activities. This paper aims to describe the design and im…
The emergence of the creative ager – On subject cultures of late-life creativity
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life
Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality in shaping later life by framing them as spaceti…
AI-Ageing Assemblages
Algorithmic technologies and big data infrastructures, commonly known as artificial intelligence (AI), have become increasingly relevant in the lives of older adults. This article seeks to engage with new ways of theorising the relationships between AI and ageing by viewing these relationships not as interventions but as assemblages. We highlight the manifold sociomaterial associations that exist between ageing and AI and empirically explore AI-a…
Precarious ageing in a global pandemic – older adults' experiences of being at risk due to Covid-19
Health authorities worldwide address older adults as a risk group for more serious illness and health complications associated with COVID-19, while social gerontologists have warned that addressing older adults as a risk group of COVID-19 bears the risk of reinforcing ageism. This paper empirically explores to what extent older adults perceive themselves as part of a COVID-19 risk group and how these perceptions influence their everyday lives and…
What's it worth? Value and valuation of late-life creativity
New interest in late-life creativity has arisen in gerontology. To date, such research has mainly focused on the positive impact creativity has on older adults, but has scarcely contextualised older adults’ creative engagement. Drawing on the sociology of valuation, this article aims to contextualise late-life creativity by critically exploring how creativity gains, stabilises and loses its value and how these processes are related to perceptions…
Representing the ‘older end user’? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of ‘active and assisted living’
As digital technologies have gained vast relevance in contemporary societies, technological assistance and support has also become an important topic in the field of care. Despite the fact that older adults are often framed as ‘laggards’ in the innovation process, they have become one major target group for technology development. This poses challenges to care recipients and infrastructures, but also to research in the field of gerontechnologies.…
Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging With Technology
Digital technologies have gained vast relevance in postmodern societies and digital infrastructures are substantially integrated into the everyday lives of older people. This digitization is reframing the norms and practices of later life as well as the social construct of age itself. Despite the increasing amount of studies in the field of aging and technologies, it still lacks theorizing. This paper addresses this deficit, suggesting that the s…
The emergence of the creative ager – On subject cultures of late-life creativity
Representing the ‘older end user’? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of ‘active and assisted living’
As digital technologies have gained vast relevance in contemporary societies, technological assistance and support has also become an important topic in the field of care. Despite the fact that older adults are often framed as ‘laggards’ in the innovation process, they have become one major target group for technology development. This poses challenges to care recipients and infrastructures, but also to research in the field of gerontechnologies.…
Covid-19
Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use of digital technologies has been regarded as the alternative to maintain economic and social activities. This paper aims to describe the design and im…
Configuring the Older Non-User
Older adults face significant barriers when accessing the Internet. What can be done to address these barriers? This article analyses existing strategies to tackle the age-related digital divide on three different levels: research, policy and practice. It analyses (1) scientific conceptualisations that are used when studying Internet use and non-use in later life, (2) policies that address older adults’ Internet (non-)use in Austria and (3) chara…
Media-Based Leisure and Wellbeing
Studies exploring digital technology in the context of leisure for older people tend to neglect their parallel use of traditional media. By simultaneous examination of both online and offline recreational media use, the present study explores media-based leisure repertoires and wellbeing among older Internet users. Data were collected via a survey of 10,527 Internet users aged 60 and up from seven countries (Austria, Canada, Denmark, Israel, the …
Covid-19 as a “Digital Push?” Research Experiences From Long-Term Care and Recommendations for the Post-pandemic Era
Health authorities and governments worldwide label older adults as a "risk group" for more serious and possibly fatal illness associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (1). Those older adults living in long-term care (LTC) are considered especially prone to more serious and fatal disease following a COVID-19 infection (2). Consequently, measures requiring LTC residents to shelter in place and maintain physical distancing from others have been enacted…
Learning with and about Digital Technology in Later Life
Literature has widely explored the learning processes with information and communication technology (ICT) in later life, mostly focusing on the individual learner rather than materialities—such as smartphones, notepads, and handouts. The aim of this paper is to introduce a socio-material perspective by focusing on the question: What role do materialities play in digital learning processes in later life? This paper draws upon a situation analysis …
But at the age of 85? Forget it!”
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users
Gerontological literature has widely explored barriers to technology use in later life, often drawing upon binary conceptualizations of "using" and "not using" a certain technological device. However, such concepts have been increasingly up for debate. Using a praxeological approach, this study aims to explore technology use and non-use in later life not as dichotomous counterparts, but as routine experiences that take place in the everyday lives…
What's it worth? Value and valuation of late-life creativity
New interest in late-life creativity has arisen in gerontology. To date, such research has mainly focused on the positive impact creativity has on older adults, but has scarcely contextualised older adults’ creative engagement. Drawing on the sociology of valuation, this article aims to contextualise late-life creativity by critically exploring how creativity gains, stabilises and loses its value and how these processes are related to perceptions…
A Multilevel Model of Older Adults’ Appropriation of ICT and Acquisition of Digital Literacy
Digital literacy refers to a set of competencies related to the skilled use of computers and information technology. Low digital skills can be a barrier for older adults' full participation in a digital society, and COVID-19 has increased this risk of social exclusion. Older adults' digital inclusion is a complex process that consists of the interplay of structural and individual factors. The ACCESS project unwrapped the complexity of the process…
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life
Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality in shaping later life by framing them as spaceti…
Older adults’ reasons to participate in digital skills learning
The rapid development of digital technologies and their increasing application in many areas of everyday life challenge all citizens to continuously learn digital skills. This also applies to older adults, among whom digital literacy is on average less well-developed than among younger adults. This article investigates why retired older adults participate in opportunities to learn digital skills. Multiple case design with both qualitative and qua…
Caring for data in later life – the datafication of ageing as a matter of care
This article examines the datafication of ageing by drawing on a practice approach toward care.We describe the datafication of ageing as a matter of care, achieved through the local tinkering of actorstechnology designers, care staff, older adults, and highlighting the practices necessary to develop, maintain and implement data infrastructures.This paper draws on research conducted in a qualitative interview study in a LTC facility that uses AI-s…
Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries
Vulnerability Assemblages
“Vulnerability” is one of the terms recently used to discuss ethical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). Current discussions on AI vulnerability tend to individualize vulnerability, largely neglecting its political dimensions, which are rooted in systems of inequality and disadvantage. This article draws on data from a multiple-perspective qualitative interview study to explore how notions of vulnerability underpin the development and implem…
Precarious ageing in a global pandemic – older adults' experiences of being at risk due to Covid-19
Health authorities worldwide address older adults as a risk group for more serious illness and health complications associated with COVID-19, while social gerontologists have warned that addressing older adults as a risk group of COVID-19 bears the risk of reinforcing ageism. This paper empirically explores to what extent older adults perceive themselves as part of a COVID-19 risk group and how these perceptions influence their everyday lives and…
AI-Ageing Assemblages
Algorithmic technologies and big data infrastructures, commonly known as artificial intelligence (AI), have become increasingly relevant in the lives of older adults. This article seeks to engage with new ways of theorising the relationships between AI and ageing by viewing these relationships not as interventions but as assemblages. We highlight the manifold sociomaterial associations that exist between ageing and AI and empirically explore AI-a…
Sociology (16 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Technology Use by Older Adults (14 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Aging and Gerontology Research (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)