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KMID : 1023720180730020193
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2018 Volume.73 No. 2 p.193 ~ p.216
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A Study on the Characteristics of Smatphone use by the Elderly：Focused on Women over 70 Years old
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Lee Kang-Jin
Lee Seul-Hi
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Abstract
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This study aims to examine the social and cultural implications by looking into the usage pattern and experience of ‘Smartphone’ from women over 70 years old. In-depth interviews with 10 women over the age of 70 were conducted in order to take a closer look at their lives. As a result, four usage patterns of smartphone were identified. They were enjoying their cultural and aesthetic tastes using the smartphone that they didn’t enough in their journey of life, and there appeared the usage pattern of consideration for others as well as empathy rather than being self-centered. In addition, they reaffirmed themselves as a social being by using the new media such as smartphone and taking part in public discourse in the communication space such as Kakao Talk. Although this kind of experience increased their satisfaction of using the smartphone, it was with ‘excessive’ fear that they used their smartphones as influenced by negative discourse of the elderly and the conventional way of thinking.
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KEYWORD
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Women in seventies, the elderly, Smartphone, SNS, alienation
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