Research on digital inequality tends to collapse people above a certain age into one “older
adults” category, seemingly assuming that this is one homogeneous group when it comes to …

Despite evidence of an upward trend in the adoption of information and communication
technologies (ICTs), current media discourse suggests that older adults (those 60-plus) lag …

How do older adults mobilize social support, with and without digital media? To investigate
this, we focus on older adults 65+ residing in the Toronto locality of East York, using 42 …

Social media have become a significant part of contemporary visual culture (Duggan et al.,
2015). In the global north, we now encounter many kinds of visual data for much of our daily …

The changing demographic structure of the population, resulting in unparalleled growth of
the elderly population, means that e-inclusion of this population group is considered to be a …

Effective use of the Internet as a crucial information and communication network is
increasingly necessary to participate in society. This thesis analyzes differences in everyday …

The older generation is growing at a rate surpassed only by the speed at which mobile
technology is advancing. Technology has become so ubiquitous in daily life, that most older …

Cities around the world are piloting combinations of technologies to develop smart cities. As
an urban management and governance trend, the smart city idea has moved from concept to …

In this paper, the effect of the ongoing migration of government and commercial services to
the Web is examined. We report on preliminary results from the qualitative analysis of the …

AlphaPlus supports digital literacy development for Ontario's vulnerable adults participating
in Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs. With an explicit mandate to provide supports to …