From September 19-20, 2024 the Socio-Gerontechnology Network will hold its Annual Meeting at the Technical University of Vienna. This year’s meeting is titled “Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World” and explores diverse themes, including:
- Ageing in more-than-human relations
- Ageing technofutures, speculative science fiction, and re-imaginations of the relations between ageing and technology, including future visions of positive relations between ageing and technology
- Building, maintaining, breaking, and repairing relations through research and activisms in ageing and technology
- Critically reflecting on practices of relation-building and/or boundary-making in Socio-Gerontechnology
- Digital capitalism and the political economy of ageing and technology
- Digital inequalities, digital and datafied ageism, and data power
- Global relations in ageing and technology, e.g., ageing and technology in the global south
- Intersectional approaches towards ageing and technology
- Mediated and datafied practices in the everyday lives of older adults
- Relations between ageing and digital technologies, (big) data, algorithms, and AI
- The surveillant relations of ageing and technology
- Theorizing relationality in ageing and technology studies
The organizing committee for the conference includes AiD members Vera Gallistl, Nicole Dalmer, and Unmil Karadkar, and over twenty AiD members will be presenting their work. For full details and the programme: https://www.socio-gerontechnology.net/events/annualmeeting2024/
