Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze and summarize empirical data about availability, specificity, methods, needs of older Internet users and to identify potential and real risks, accompanying being in the global network. The article based on the data of the 25th wave (2016) «Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – HSE» (RLMS-HSE). It is established and empirically confirmed that the computer and the Internet provide a whole range of new positive opportunities for the elderly. At the same time, there is a phenomenon of information inequality of the elderly, which manifests itself through the limited resources of adaptation to the information component of everyday life, the decline in the social well-being of the elderly in the ever-changing modern social environment. The author substantiates the conclusion that the ambivalence of Internet technologies does not cause the abandonment of it, but the increase of various resources of adaptation to innovations both by own efforts and by appropriate motivation of elderly users themselves, and by means of the social protection system.
Highlights
The article based on the data of the 25th wave (2016) «Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – HSE» (RLMS-HSE)
It is established and empirically confirmed that the computer and the Internet provide a whole range of new positive opportunities for the elderly
There is a phenomenon of information inequality of the elderly, which manifests itself through the limited resources of adaptation to the information component of everyday life, the decline in the social well-being of the elderly in the ever-changing modern social environment
Summary
В имеющихся публикациях анализируются цели выхода этой категории населения в Интернет1 [Красавцева 2015; Шестакова: 2015], включенность в социальные сети[2] и контент сайтов, ориентированных на потребности пожилых людей [Бершадская и др. Ответы респондентов на вопросы относительно их пребывания в интернет-пространстве сопоставляются с имеющимися результатами других исследований аспектов поведения старшего поколения в глобальной сети. Наибольшая доля общего числа пожилых пользователей глобальной сети подключались к Интернету у себя дома (94,2%).
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