This chapter takes a cue from the previous chapters wherein conventional communication as well as new media infrastructure have been explored. It provides a nuanced clarification of the elderly attitudes towards technology and offers an insight into how old people define their needs and preferences of new media devices and the internet. The findings of the field survey impart convergent inputs suggesting that ease of new media use and its utility among the aged are significant variables in predicting the acceptance of technology. The present field data also highlights some of the outlooks that drive the older adults’ comfort of use and usefulness factors of new media.

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Access, Affordability, and Uses of New Media

  • Debarati Dhar

摘要

This chapter takes a cue from the previous chapters wherein conventional communication as well as new media infrastructure have been explored. It provides a nuanced clarification of the elderly attitudes towards technology and offers an insight into how old people define their needs and preferences of new media devices and the internet. The findings of the field survey impart convergent inputs suggesting that ease of new media use and its utility among the aged are significant variables in predicting the acceptance of technology. The present field data also highlights some of the outlooks that drive the older adults’ comfort of use and usefulness factors of new media.