Generational Use of New Media examines and contrasts how younger and older people, representing different generations, engage with the new media that they increasingly encounter in everyday life. Exploring the various assumptions about the degrees to which younger and older people are more or less willing to use, or are capable of using, new media, the social circumstances under which they do so and the very design of those media, this book critically examines the gap that is assumed to exist between younger users of new media and older non-users. Thematically organised and offering comparative analyses of the generational use of new media and technology, this timely volume presents the latest research and rich new empirical material gathered in the EU, USA and Hong Kong, to reflect on societal practices and the practical implications of building a more inclusive information society.

Introduction, Eugène Loos, Leslie Haddon, Enid Mante-Meijer; Part I Young People Using New Media; Chapter 1 Parental Mediation of Internet Use: Evaluating Family Relationships, Leslie Haddon; Chapter 2 Teenagers, the Internet and Morality, Joke Bauwens; Chapter 3 Family Dynamics and Mediation: Children, Autonomy and Control, Gustavo Cardoso, Rita Espanha, Tiago Lapa; Chapter 4 Digital Natives: Discourses of Exclusion in an Inclusive Society, David Herold; Part II Barrier Free Information for Older People; Chapter 5 Being the Oldest Old in a Shifting Technology Landscape, Jan-Erik Hagberg; Chapter 6 Modelling Older Adults for Website Design, Dana Chisnell, Janice (Ginny) Redish; Chapter 7 The Ticket Machine Challenge: Social Inclusion by Barrier-free Ticket Vending Machines, Günther Schreder, Karin Siebenhandl, Eva Mayr, Michael Smuc; Part III Younger and Older People Using New Media: A Contrastive Analysis; Chapter 8 Building Intergenerational Bridges Between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: Attitudes, Motivations and Appreciation for Old and New Media, Giuseppe Lugano, Peter Peltonen; Chapter 9 Age and Internet Skills: Rethinking the Obvious, Alexander van Deursen; Chapter 10 Getting Access to Website Health Information: Does Age Really Matter?, Eugène Loos, Enid Mante-Meijer; conclusion Conclusion, Eugène Loos, Leslie Haddon, Enid Mante-Meijer;