El Programa de Recerca “Comunicacions mòbils, economia i societat” de l’IN3 (UOC) ha organitzat el seminari de recerca del Dr. Sergio Sayago “Etnografia clàssica amb gent gran i TIC al nord i sud d’Europa: ús quotidià i accessibilitat a ordinadors i Internet, aprenentatge i ensenyament, i reflexions sobre el mètode etnogràfic” que tindrà lloc el proper dimecres 14 de desembre de 2011 a les 10.30h. a l’IN3 de la UOC (Edifici MediaTIC. C/Roc Boronat, 117, 7a planta).
La informació sobre aquest seminari que ens ha arribat és la següent:
“Classical ethnography with older people and ICT in the north and south of Europe: real-life use and accessibility of computers and the Internet, learning and teaching, and reflections on the ethnographical method”
Sergio Sayago, Visiting post-doctoral researcher (Beatriu de Pinós Fellowship), Digital Media Access Group, School of Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee (Scotland, UK), http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~ssayag
This seminar presents key results of a 4-year classical ethnographical study of ICT and older people conducted in an adult educational centre in Barcelona (Spain) and in a clubhouse in Dundee (Scotland). After discussing the motivation for doing ethnography with older people in ICT, and how this fits in with previous research in important related areas, this seminar will discuss the use, experiences and accessibility of computer-mediated communication tools, such as e-mails and video chats, in out-of-laboratory conditions by almost 400 older people, and how these aspects evolve over a 3-year period, enabling a discussion on how different our research with today’s older people will be when contemporary adult people grow older. The seminar will then move on to a discussion on whether the ICT learning of older people is limited, or even possible, in light of cognitive declines, technological evolution, and negative social stereotypes, and, if their ICT learning is possi ble, how they learn them. This will be followed by a personal reflection on the researcher’s experiences of conducting long-term ethnography with older people in very different cultural contexts, addressing key ethnographical research methods and ethical considerations. The seminar will end up with an outline of research on accessible and worth playing digital computer games for and by older people, and accessible geographical positioning services for them based on geo-localised ICT.
