Abstract
Nowadays aging and old age is quite popular in many fields also in mass media we can see pictures of older adults who might be named non-stereotypical. The aim of the paper is to present one of the non-stereotypical picture of old age – the oldest Polish DJ Wirginia Wika Szmyt. The article presents designed and conducted qualitative research – text analysis of collected data (many interviews, articles available online and in press about Wirginia Szmyt and biographical book DJ Wika. This is power! ) and analysis of the narrations of focus group interviews of the seniors – students of U3A). The aim of the research was the analysis of the interesting aspects of the three complementary perspectives: the media, the senior and individual. The article presents the results of the first stage of the project carried out oscillating around issues of nonstereotypical perception, experiencing and imaging old age
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