Abstract
Recently, the 50s and 60s, mainly baby boomers, are emerging in our society under the name of the “new middle-aged.” Those who say that now is their heyday are the ‘Opal Generation.’ Here, ‘OPAL’ stands for ‘Old People with Active Lives’ and at the same time means ‘Opal’ born in 1958, which represents baby boomers. In this study, we paid attention to the cultural characteristics of single-person media among seniors, based on the Kommunikologie of Czech media philosopher Villem Flusser as a theoretical premise for this study. Flusser argues that communication in the telematic era is a networked relationship in which individuals realize themselves through conversations with others. In addition, a new ‘freedom’ that individuals can enjoy in a telematic society is proposed as a concept opposite to ‘inevitability’, and the user is defined as an active subject through a creative imagination. In short, through qualitative in-depth interviews, the video production activities of single senior media creators in an aging society were analyzed through qualitative indepth interviews to see if the senior generation could recover true communication as creative imaginators through the process of producing and composing media contents.
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