Digital Media and the Daily Lives of China’s Senior Citizens

<p>Guo provides a comprehensive outlook of how digital media is transforming the daily lives of senior citizens in China.</p><p>The book explores the important role digital media play in senior citizens’ daily lives and the disparities of third agers’ digital well-being. It applies the concepts of digital capital and individualisation to China and uses a combination of qualitative research including interviews with seniors and focus groups with recent data on media use aging and demography. Its fieldwork with seniors conducted in a second-tier city of China provides insights on how the process of digitalisation has transformed seniors’ daily lives.</p><p>A valuable book for scholars and researchers in sociology digital media active aging population gerontology and China studies.</p>