Jak starší lidé žijící v osamělosti prožívají mezigenerační vztahy prostřednictvím digitálních médií

Háša, Marek

Increasing intergenerational connectivity within family or through societal programs can help mitigate feelings of loneliness among older adults. Diverse types of digitally-mediated interventions have been designed to penetrate solitude in a more engaged, scalable manner. However, such endeavors have been predominantly techno-optimistic, commonly omitting many potential critical aspects of bridging generational gaps with digital connectedness in the context of loneliness. Therefore, this dissertation aims to provide a more holistic and profoundly human-centric view of how older adults living with loneliness experience and reflect on intergenerational relationships created or maintained via digital media such as video calls and mobile chatting platforms. The method of this dissertation was grounded in hermeneutic phenomenology and featured a model social intervention creating new acquaintances between 15 younger volunteers and 15 older adults living with loneliness via tablets and smartphones. The pairs were loosely instructed to stay in digital touch over a period of four weeks and keep simple logs of their communication events to facilitate future recollection. Multiperspectival data were collected through two rounds of in-person phenomenological interviews and observations during visits at the...

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