Media education for older people - views of stakeholders

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ID21537558
AuthorsSusanna Rivinen (0000-0002-1162-4420, University of Lapland, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue4
Pages195-206
Publication date2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Gerontology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0360-1277 • E-ISSN: 1521-0472
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03601277.2020.1725307
OpenAlexW3005765732
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited26

This study is a part of an ongoing design-based research (DBR) project aimed at designing, piloting, and assessing a digital study module focused on older people’s media education. In order to gain a better understanding of older people’s media literacy and develop the teaching of adult educators, participatory creative workshops for a total of thirty-one stakeholders (older people and professionals who work with them) were conducted. Research data was collected from these workshops through a case exercise from stakeholders and a questionnaire from older people during the year 2019. According to the stakeholders, older people need more training in all the dimensions of media literacy, which is understood as competence in accessing, using, understanding, creating, and critically analyzing different media texts. However, use dimension was the most featured dimension in the data. In addition, older people are a heterogeneous group and it is essential that media education is tailored to meet the current needs of older people. The results indicate that media education should be designed especially to address the needs and individuality of older people

Medical education · Older people · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Medicine · Psychology · Social Issues in Poland · Technology Use by Older Adults · Gerontology

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