Social robots providing physical and cognitive assistance, and social and emotional companionship have rapidly become one of the most paradigmatic…
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Next Seminar in the ‘International Conversations in Ageing and Technology’ series, co-hosted with the British Society of Gerontology’s Technology and Ageing SIG
The ‘International Conversations in Ageing and Technology’ seminar series, hosted by the Socio-gerontechnology Network, aims to stimulate discussion around critical…
Mundane Media Moments: Ageing, The Ordinary, and Everyday Life
By Scott DeJong On Wednesday June 26, the Socio-gerontology Network and the ACT-project hosted a panel discussion titled “Mundane Media…
CfP for a new research topic in Frontiers in Sociology: “New Perspectives on the Digital Transformation of Later Life”
Are you doing reserach on the relational terrain of ageing & technologies? If so, consider submitting to this new research…
Automating Care: A new Guardian series on the rise of AI in caregiving
A new series from Guardian US aims to scrutinize this monumental shift in the way society cares for those in…
CfP: 1st International Conference on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing
miOne World is the 1st International Conference on Online Social Environments for Active Ageing, which gathers researchers, practitioners and industry…
Socio-Gerontechnology meets ACT: Online Event on Mundane Media Moments – Ageing, the Ordinary and Everyday Life
We have been working with the ACT network to organize our next event of the ‘International Conversations in Ageing and Technology’ series. Details of…
International Conversations in Ageing and Technology Seminar Series Event 1: Participatory Design as we Age
International Conversations in Ageing and Technology Seminar Series Participatory Design as we Age On April 22nd, 2021 we held the…
Call for Abstracts: Inclusive AI in a COVID-19 Era
The editorial team of the Student Forum of Springer journal AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication welcomes students and…
The New Book “Socio-gerontechnology – Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology” is out!
In this volume, scholars from the Socio-gerontechnology Network discuss recent trends in the critical scholarships on age, ageing and technology,…