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标题：Ageing, embodiment and datafication: Dynamics of power in digital health and care technologies
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作者：Nicole Dalmer ; Kirsten Ellison ; Stephen Katz 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
印刷版ISSN：1652-8670
出版年度：2022
卷号：15
期号：2
页码：77-101
DOI：10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.3499
语种：English
出版社：Linkoping University Electronic Press
摘要：As a growing body of work has documented, digital technologies are central to the imagining of aging futures. In this study, we offer a critical, theoretical framework for exploring the dynamics of power related to the technological tracking, measuring, and managing of aging bodies at the heart of these imaginaries. Drawing on critical gerontology, feminist technoscience, sociology of the body, and socio-gerontechnology, we identify three dimensions of power relations where the designs, operations, scripts, and materialities of technological innovation implicate asymmetrical relationships of control and intervention: (1) aging bodies and the power of numbers, (2) aging spaces and the power of surveillance, and (3) age care economies and gendered power relations. While technological care for older individuals has been promoted as a cost-effective way to enhance independence, security, and health, we argue that such optimistic perspectives may obscure the realities of social inequality, agist bias, and exploitative gendered care labour.
关键词：aging;care;datafication;embodiment;gerontechnology;power.