"I Can't Facebook with My Dumb Phone:" Digital Engagement Beyond School & Work for Older Adults

“I Can’t Facebookwith my dumb phone”

CCCC > 7 April 2016

(Digital engagement beyond school& work for older adults)

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Digital literacy grandma

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GENDER, GENERATIONS

Tech learning, tech stereotypes

Discouragement, resistance

“I take pictures [on my Androidsmartphone], but I'm not sure how to send them.

Although people tell me it's very simple. Uh, so. It's amazing. There's nothing... I mean, I'm not saying I will never touch any more or learn any more, but, uh, it's confusing for me to learn

too much. And I'm not stupid, it's just not... my brain isnot wired for that.”

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