标题：The Community-Based Information Infrastructure of Older Adult Digital Learning. A Study of Public Libraries and Senior Centers in a Medium-sized City in the USA
摘要：In the United States of America, senior centers and public libraries are ubiquitous socialinstitutions found in virtually every municipality. This article analyses these institutions ascommunity-based information infrastructure in the digital learning practices of older adults.Older adults turn to these institutions to learn technology in retirement. How learning takesplace in these spaces is shaped both by the institutions, and by the older adults. Negotiationsbetween institutions and older adults shape digital learning. These negotiations are shapedby societal ageism. This article shows that older adults are not passive participants in technologylearning, using services provided for them by others, but instead actively shape bothhow learning services are proffered and the institutional contexts in which these servicesexist. By learning to embrace the agency of older adults, these under-funded public institutionscould powerfully reconfigure themselves for an information society that is also ageing
关键词：community informatics; library and information science; infrastructure studies;older adults; public libraries; senior centers
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