Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families
This book provides a comprehensive review of how digital communication technology can help families network and communicate across generations, despite differences in family composition, residential location, cultural values and orientations. Covering the
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Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families
Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families
Sakari Taipale
Intergenerational Connections in Digital Families
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Sakari Taipale University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland
ISBN 978-3-030-11946-1 ISBN 978-3-030-11947-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11947-8
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Acknowledgements
This book summarizes the main results of the research project Intergenerational Relations in Broadband Societies, funded by the Academy of Finland. The five-year project, running from 2013 to 2018, explored digital media and communication technology use among family generations and social generations (cohorts). Of particular interest for it were the ways in which new technologies might separate generations while perhaps also creating new connections between them, and whether there was any variation in this regard between countries of the European Union. The bulk of this book is based on interview material collected in Finland, Italy and Slovenia in 2014 and 2015. Without the dedicated and diligent local co-researchers in charge of organizing the interviews, it would have been impossible for me to study families dispersed geographically across three countries and, quite concretely, interview them in three different languages. Observing and interviewing their own families and kin, my key informants produced notably rich research data that, in its subsequent English translation, I have had the great pleasure of revisiting over and over again for the benefit of my ongoing research. In the course of the project, many colleagues
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