Digital Technologies and Generational Identity

Sakari Taipale works as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. Terhi-Anna Wilska is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Chris Gilleard is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Division of Psychiatry, University College London and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Sakari Taipale, Terhi-Anna Wilska and Chris Gilleard)Section I: Historical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives Chapter 2. The place of age in the digital revolution (Chris Gilleard)Chapter 3. Generational analysis as a methodological approach to study mediatised social change (Göran Bolin)Chapter 4. Generational analysis of people’s experience of ICTs (Leslie Haddon)Section II: Family generations and ICTChapter 5. Mobile life of middle-aged employees: fragmented time and softer schedules (Mia Tammelin and Timo Anttila)Chapter 6. Intergenerational solidarity and ICT usage: empirical insights from Finnish and Slovenian families (Sakari Taipale, Andraž Petrovčič and Vesna Dolničar)Chapter 7. Gendering the mobile phone: a life course approach (Carla Ganito)Chapter 8. How young people experience elderly people’s use of digital technologies in everyday life (Leopoldina Fortunati)Chapter 9. ICTs and client trust in the care of old people in Finland (Helena Hirvonen)Chapter 10. Mobile phone use and social generations in rural India (Sirpa Tenhunen)Section III Consumption, lifestyles and marketsChapter 11. Necessities to all? The role of ICTs in the everyday life of the middle-aged and elderly between 1999 and 2014 (Terhi-Anna Wilska and Sanna-Mari Kuoppamäki)Chapter 12. A risk to privacy or a need for security? Digital domestic technologies in the lives of young adults and late middle-agers (Sanna-Mari Kuoppamäki, Outi Uusitalo and Tiina Kemppainen)Chapter 13. Personality traits and computer use in midlife: leisure activities and work characteristics as mediators (Tiia Kekäläinen and Katja Kokko)Chapter 14. Electronic emotions, age and the life course (Jane Vincent)Chapter 15. Conclusions (Chris Gilleard, Terhi-Anna Wilska and Sakari Taipale)

'How does your age influence how you use technology and why does it matter? This timely volume assembles leading scholars from a diversity of disciplines to address the issue of ICTs and generational identity. It builds on the bedrock of existing scholarship to offer fresh and thought-provoking insights on this fascinating topic.' - Sun Sun Lim, PhD, Professor of Media & Communication, Singapore University of Technology and Design‘Taipale’s edited volume provides a compelling look at the way that the "other half" uses mobiles and with what consequences. Too often, researchers have failed to explore how the elderly, the aging, and even young adults use this transformative technology. As a result, both social policy and daily life practices are shortchanged. As an antidote, this incisive, timely and accessible collection deserves wide reading.’ - James E. Katz, PhD, DrHC, Feld Family Professor of Emerging Media, Director of Division of Emerging Media Studies, Executive Director of Center for Mobile Communication Studies, College of Communication, Boston University, US