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Ageism in the era of digital platforms
Ageism is the most invisible form of discrimination. While there is some awareness of gender, racial, and socioeconomic discrimination on digital platforms, ageism has received less attention. This article analyzes some tools that are frequently embedded on digital platforms from an old-age perspect...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856520930905 |
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description | Ageism is the most invisible form of discrimination. While there is some awareness of gender, racial, and socioeconomic discrimination on digital platforms, ageism has received less attention. This article analyzes some tools that are frequently embedded on digital platforms from an old-age perspective, in order to increase awareness of the different ways in which ageism works. We will firstly look at how innovation teams, following homophilic patterns, disregard older people. Secondly, we will show how ageism tends to be amplified by the methods often used on digital platforms. And thirdly, we will show how corporate values contradict the usability issues that mainly affect people with a low level of (digital) skills, which is more common among older people. Counterbalancing the abusive power control of the corporations behind digital platforms and compensating for the underrepresentation of groups in less favorable situations could help to tackle such discrimination. |
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spelling | pubmed-76499482020-11-23 Ageism in the era of digital platforms Rosales, Andrea Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia Convergence (Lond) Special Issue Ageism is the most invisible form of discrimination. While there is some awareness of gender, racial, and socioeconomic discrimination on digital platforms, ageism has received less attention. This article analyzes some tools that are frequently embedded on digital platforms from an old-age perspective, in order to increase awareness of the different ways in which ageism works. We will firstly look at how innovation teams, following homophilic patterns, disregard older people. Secondly, we will show how ageism tends to be amplified by the methods often used on digital platforms. And thirdly, we will show how corporate values contradict the usability issues that mainly affect people with a low level of (digital) skills, which is more common among older people. Counterbalancing the abusive power control of the corporations behind digital platforms and compensating for the underrepresentation of groups in less favorable situations could help to tackle such discrimination. SAGE Publications 2020-06-25 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7649948/ /pubmed/33239961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856520930905 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Special Issue Rosales, Andrea Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia Ageism in the era of digital platforms |
title | Ageism in the era of digital platforms |
title_full | Ageism in the era of digital platforms |
title_fullStr | Ageism in the era of digital platforms |
title_full_unstemmed | Ageism in the era of digital platforms |
title_short | Ageism in the era of digital platforms |
title_sort | ageism in the era of digital platforms |
topic | Special Issue |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33239961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856520930905 |
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