Laura Tropp is professor of communication and media arts at Marymount Manhattan College.

• Introduction: Age as SuperpowerChapter 1: The Grandparent ShiftChapter 2: Grandparenting as a LifestageChapter 3: Chasing VisibilityChapter 4: Grandparenting as Second ChanceChapter 5: Performing Granny and PopChapter 6: The Grandparent-Industrial ComplexConclusion: The Grandparent Paradox

Dr. Laura Tropp, once again, ruptures the ways in which we think about everyday life events and relationships and, more importantly, how we experience them. In her first book, A Womb With A View, Tropp exposes a class-based branding and marketing of pregnant women. And now, in Grandparents in a Digital Age, Tropp poignantly explores the shifting images of aging to aptly challenge traditional notions of what it means to be a grandparent in our digital culture today. Simply put, Tropp pins the changing social function of grandparents in ways that no longer resonate with the archetypal role of aging.

Laura Tropp is professor of communication and media arts at Marymount Manhattan College.

• Introduction: Age as SuperpowerChapter 1: The Grandparent ShiftChapter 2: Grandparenting as a LifestageChapter 3: Chasing VisibilityChapter 4: Grandparenting as Second ChanceChapter 5: Performing Granny and PopChapter 6: The Grandparent-Industrial ComplexConclusion: The Grandparent Paradox

Dr. Laura Tropp, once again, ruptures the ways in which we think about everyday life events and relationships and, more importantly, how we experience them. In her first book, A Womb With A View, Tropp exposes a class-based branding and marketing of pregnant women. And now, in Grandparents in a Digital Age, Tropp poignantly explores the shifting images of aging to aptly challenge traditional notions of what it means to be a grandparent in our digital culture today. Simply put, Tropp pins the changing social function of grandparents in ways that no longer resonate with the archetypal role of aging.

Laura Tropp is professor of communication and media arts at Marymount Manhattan College.

• Introduction: Age as SuperpowerChapter 1: The Grandparent ShiftChapter 2: Grandparenting as a LifestageChapter 3: Chasing VisibilityChapter 4: Grandparenting as Second ChanceChapter 5: Performing Granny and PopChapter 6: The Grandparent-Industrial ComplexConclusion: The Grandparent Paradox

Dr. Laura Tropp, once again, ruptures the ways in which we think about everyday life events and relationships and, more importantly, how we experience them. In her first book, A Womb With A View, Tropp exposes a class-based branding and marketing of pregnant women. And now, in Grandparents in a Digital Age, Tropp poignantly explores the shifting images of aging to aptly challenge traditional notions of what it means to be a grandparent in our digital culture today. Simply put, Tropp pins the changing social function of grandparents in ways that no longer resonate with the archetypal role of aging.