Intersecção geracional: a pessoa idosa em meio às rotinas tecnologizadas.

Abstract

The research is centered on the theme of the intersection of generations of natives and digital immigrants. As an object of study, focuses on the gap of these two realities, contemporary embodied in the elderly. One may wonder how people aged 60 and over currently dealing with routines technologized, and about the possibility of a new form of exclusion. There fore, discusses the technological development as a process that is irreversibly amalgamated to our mode of production and there fore the size of the social. The convergence of telecommunications and computing from the 1970s lever aged new social forms of then postmodernism. In "Cartesian modernity" the "limits of the world" were defined, the location was fixed, closed, totalizing. In contemporary times the number of elderly in creases rapidly, immersed in the ever-changing realities. Discussions realice the aspects of the emergence of technology, modern science and the industrial revolution, cyber and demographic, and offer sociological theories of gerontology. The size of the empirical research has focused on a case study with the elderly population of the city of Florianópolis, capital of Santa Catarina state, pursuing the hypothesis of a new type of social exclusion, caused by the inability/difficulty in the elderly perform daily activities mediated by digital platforms. We performed a methodological triangulation with statistics, structured interviews and open to hear and read how the elderly feel a head to digital technologies. The results correspond to social, political, economic and cultural historically caused by the presence of technology. The findings show that the elderly need special attention, since the "evolutions/revolutions" scientific and technological always bring small and large deletions.