Media, Sociality, and Aging Process A Study of Aging Process through New Media in Select Areas of Kolkata

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper seeks to interrogate the very assumption of “sociality” in social media at a conceptual level and substantiate it with the help of information collected on aged people’s use of conventional media vis-à-vis so called “social media” from the field work. Although global literature has written the obituary of mass media and promoted the “sociality” of social media, one needs to critically engage with such statement. Such statements have been an outcome of the established status of the “post broadcast” model of media where conventional media is in existence for some time and accessible to everyone in society. Further, this paper seeks to explore the interplay of new media in the life of the aged population in select areas of Kolkata city in the state of West Bengal, India. There are few studies on the ageing population’s use of new media in the Indian context. While many of the studies reveal the new media literacy among the youth, this is unimportant as both the new media and the youth are relatively young as a field of research in media studies in India. What is missed in the earlier studies is, how new media plays an important function in the life of the aged population. How do older adults engage with the skilling and deskilling process of media literacy in their everyday life? And finally, do new media provide an extension to their on-going social relations? With the help of substantive details, the present study addresses the aforementioned queries.

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