Digital Ageism: How it Operates and Approaches to Tackling it

About

Andrea Rosales is an Associate Professor of communication technology and society at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Coordinator of the Digital Societies Unit of the Communications Networks and Social Change research group at UOC. Her research focuses on the challenges of data societies particularly in relation to ageism. She analyses the social impact of artificial intelligence to counterbalance the intrinsic power relationships of digital technologies.Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol is an Associate Professor of Digital Communication at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and a senior researcher with the Communication Networks and Social Change research group IN3 research institute (UOC). She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches in the Social Sciences field and uses mobile communication as an entry point to analyse power relations. At present her research focuses on analysing the intersection between digital (mobile) communication and the ageing process and the challenges hyper-digitization and hyper-datafication create in our societies.Jakob Svensson is a a Full Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Malmö University Sweden Department of Computer Science and Media Technology. His research interests include (digital) media and empowerment technology cultures and political communication. In 2021 he published a book on the people behind data and algorithms Wizards of the Web.