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A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective
Digital inclusion is viewed as a crucial strategy for promoting social inclusion and addressing issues related to aging. This study focuses on the digital inclusion practices of rural senior citizens and introduces a life course research perspective to move the study of influencing factors from the...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187630 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.974998 |
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author | Zhang, Huan He, Ruimin |
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description | Digital inclusion is viewed as a crucial strategy for promoting social inclusion and addressing issues related to aging. This study focuses on the digital inclusion practices of rural senior citizens and introduces a life course research perspective to move the study of influencing factors from the proximal to the distal end. The motivations, trajectories, and barriers to digital inclusion among rural elderly groups are presented through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 34 elderly people in a village in northern China. It was discovered that digital inclusion or exclusion is the cumulative result of life events, social roles, and personal agency in the life course, while it is difficult for the elderly to break away from traditional culture and social relations in rural areas in the digital age. The digital practice is not only an inner adjustment in the process of life stage transition for rural seniors but also an individual pursuit of active aging. |
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spelling | pubmed-95211932022-09-30 A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective Zhang, Huan He, Ruimin Front Public Health Public Health Digital inclusion is viewed as a crucial strategy for promoting social inclusion and addressing issues related to aging. This study focuses on the digital inclusion practices of rural senior citizens and introduces a life course research perspective to move the study of influencing factors from the proximal to the distal end. The motivations, trajectories, and barriers to digital inclusion among rural elderly groups are presented through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 34 elderly people in a village in northern China. It was discovered that digital inclusion or exclusion is the cumulative result of life events, social roles, and personal agency in the life course, while it is difficult for the elderly to break away from traditional culture and social relations in rural areas in the digital age. The digital practice is not only an inner adjustment in the process of life stage transition for rural seniors but also an individual pursuit of active aging. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9521193/ /pubmed/36187630 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.974998 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhang and He. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Zhang, Huan He, Ruimin A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
title | A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
title_full | A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
title_fullStr | A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
title_short | A study on digital inclusion of Chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
title_sort | study on digital inclusion of chinese rural older adults from a life course perspective |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187630 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.974998 |
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