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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Mediations of the Identity of Seniors on IT. The Case of Grand Parenthood

Authors : Élodie Llobet-Vachias, Yves Jeanneret

Published in: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging

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Abstract

This paper studies a particular way to categorize people as “grand parents” instead of considering them simply as “seniors”. It describes several communicational approaches and questions the consequences of such a choice on the relation of people with IT, and especially computer mediated communication. The empirical basis of this research is constituted by the observation of several associative, political and economic organizations devoted to the defense and institutionalization of grand parenthood as a social form in France.

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Footnotes
1
The French « grand parentalité », which is of common use for the organizations we study, is much more abstract and symbolic than english equivalents as « grand parenting » or « grand parenthood ». In different texts as « Rhétorique de l’image » and Mythologies [4, 5], Roland Barthes uses words as « italianité » (for Italy) or « sinité » (for China) to stress the imaginary dimension of categories. It sounds like “parentality”.
 
2
Strategic planning manager of the leading French advertising agency, Publicis.
 
3
http://​fing.​org/​. Visited on feb. 4th, 2016.
 
4
Debate at the Celsa « Le public jeune : promesse ou mirage ? », may 16th, 2011, (Young audience: a promise or a mirage?). Streaming online: https://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​zkQzYZnQrnY. With a thematic note: http://​www.​celsa.​fr/​pub/​lesentretiens/​LePublicJeune.​pdf. Visited on feb. 3th 2016.
 
5
Les nouveaux grands parents is a derived product from a program broadcasted on the TV channel France 5, (“Les maternelles”).
 
6
Marie-Françoise Fuchs for the EGPE and Annick Glorieux for Grand-Godparents.
 
7
The Internet, which is then 30 years old as a scientific device, becomes a common tool in France in the late 90’s.
 
8
http://​www.​super-grandparents.​fr/​fr/​why_​grandparents.​awp. Visited on feb. 5th 2016. Founder: Christelle Levasseur.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Mediations of the Identity of Seniors on IT. The Case of Grand Parenthood
Authors
Élodie Llobet-Vachias
Yves Jeanneret
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-39948-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-39949-2

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39949-2_20