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Handbook of Communication and Aging Research (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Handbook of Communication and Aging Research (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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This second edition of the "Handbook of Communication and Aging
Research" captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging
research. Since it was first recognized that there is more to
social aging than demography, gerontology has needed a
communication perspective. Like the first edition, this handbook
sets out to demonstrate that aging is not only an individual
process but an interactive one. The study of communication can lead
to an understanding of what it means to grow old. We may age
physiologically and chronologically, but our social aging--how we
behave as social actors toward others, and even how we align
ourselves with or come to understand the signs of difference or
change as we age--are phenomena achieved primarily through
communication experiences.
Synthesizing the vast amount of research that has been published on
communication and aging in numerous international outlets over the
last three decades, the book's contributors include scholars from
North America and the United Kingdom who are active researchers in
the perspectives covered in their particular chapter. Many of the
chapters work to deny earlier images of aging as involving
normative decrement to provide a picture of aging as a process of
development involving positive choices and providing new
opportunities. A recuring theme in many chapters is that of the
heterogeneity of the group of people who are variously categorized
as older, aged, elderly, or over 65. The contributors review the
literature analytically, in a way that reveals not only current
theoretical and methodological approaches to communication and
aging research but also sets the future agenda.
This handbook will be of great interestto scholars and researchers
in gerontology, developmental psychology, and communication, and,
in this updated edition, will continue to play a key role in the
study of communication and aging.
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