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                Dear colleagues,
<br>We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to our track
<br>*Dis-entangling
<br>later life: ageing processes, innovative practices and critical
<br>reflections *at the *8th STS Italia Conference “**Dis/Entangling
<br>Technoscience: Vulnerability, Responsibility and Justic**e (*
<br>www.stsitaliaconf2020.com)*, *June 18 through 20, 2020, University of
<br>Trieste, Italy.
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<br>Follow this link: https://www.stsitaliaconf2020.com/call-for-abstracts and
<br>submit a title and a short abstract of less than 300 words by *February 9th*
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<br>For any questions you can email us at:
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<br>Silvia Fornasini, University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
<br>s.fornasini@fbk.eu
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<br>Francesco Miele, University of Padova, francesco.miele@unipd.it
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<br>Francisco Nunes, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, francisco.nunes@fraunhofer.pt
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<br>Please feel free to circulate this announcement widely.
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<br>Best,
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<br>Silvia, Francesco & Francisco
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<br>*(Track 4) Dis-entangling later life: ageing processes, innovative
<br>practices and critical reflections*
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<br>*Convenors:*
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<br>Silvia Fornasini, University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
<br>s.fornasini@fbk.eu
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<br>Francesco Miele, University of Padova, francesco.miele@unipd.it
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<br>Francisco Nunes, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, francisco.nunes@fraunhofer.pt
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<br>*Track description*
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<br>The ageing population topic is becoming increasingly salient in the
<br>international and European agenda. The increasing number of older people in
<br>society is rarely framed as a positive feat, but rather as a challenge with
<br>great social impact. In this context, research and development are seen as
<br>the key to “solving” the challenges and impacts of the demographic ageing
<br>by creating innovative social and care processes where older persons use
<br>technology to help them engage in self-care and wellbeing. The active
<br>agency expected from older people contrasts with previous held perspectives
<br>on them. In fact, for a long time they were seen as passive subjects that
<br>created a social and economic burden for our societies, as Mort et al.
<br>(2013) describe in their article: “Ageing with telecare: care or coercion
<br>in austerity?”. This approach overlooks the fact that the nature of later
<br>life and its relationship with science and technology is changing: in their
<br>work “Science, technology and the ‘grand challenge’ of ageing -
<br>Understanding the socio-material constitution of later life”, Peine et al.
<br>(2015) describe how current generations of older persons have experienced
<br>different waves of technology innovations during their life course, and
<br>they are increasingly used to adopt technology as part of their daily life,
<br>finding new social roles and identities. Furthermore, as stated by Kogan et
<br>al. (2016) in their literature review “Person‐centered care for older
<br>adults with chronic conditions and functional impairment”, in the case of
<br>non self-sufficient older people, institutions and caregivers are more and
<br>more interested in technological and organizational interventions aimed at
<br>providing the so-called person-centered care.
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<br>STS have been contributing to challenge the assumptions according to which
<br>elderlies are passive  subjects, exploring what it means to grow old with
<br>techno-scientific innovations as part of everyday life. From this
<br>perspective, older persons are agents that create and develop meaning for
<br>later life as they interact with new technologies, incorporating it into
<br>their daily life and adapting it to their needs and desires. Moreover,
<br>elderlies contribute at re-defining social representations concerning aging
<br>and at supporting the emergence of scientific innovations (Vincent, 2006,
<br>“Ageing contested: Anti-ageing science and the cultural construction of old
<br>age”). STS foster a new paradigm, which takes into account the increasing
<br>heterogeneity of older people and other actors who are involved in the
<br>co-production of new technologies and, more broadly, of techno-scientific
<br>innovations.
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<br>The aim of this track is to highlight the intricate ways in which older
<br>persons themselves - as well as family members, peers, caregivers,
<br>healthcare organizations and media - articulate and reconstruct
<br>understandings about later life through active engagements with
<br>technoscientific objects. Starting from this understanding of ageing, we
<br>intend to attract theoretically, empirically, and/or methodologically
<br>oriented contributes focused on:
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<br>●      Technology, active-ageing and empowerment of older people;
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<br>●      Participatory design practices and older people;
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<br>●      Technology and chronic disease management at home;
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<br>●      Technology and care practices in long-term care organizations;
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<br>●      Research on ageing processes;
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<br>●      Media discourses on ageing and techno-scientific innovations.
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<br>*To participate:*
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<br>Abstracts (written in English, or in Italian) should be submitted *by
<br>February, 9* to the conference email address (stsitaliaconf@gmail.com) and
<br>to the emails of convenors' selected track. Track Convenors will be
<br>responsible for reviewing, accepting/rejecting and organising submissions
<br>into their track.
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<br>Submission should include:
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<br>1. Author’s name and surname, affiliation and email address
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<br>2. Presentation title
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<br>3. Abstract (less than 300 words)
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<br>*Next important dates:*
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<br>*February 9, 2020*: Deadline for abstract submission
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<br>*March 2, 2020*: Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection
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<br>*March 29, 2020*: Early registration deadline
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<br>*April 19, 2020*: Closing date for registration
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<br>*May 24, 2020*: Publication of the final conference programme
<br>*June 18–20, 2020*: Conference
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<br>Silvia Fornasini
<br>PhD Candidate @ Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University
<br>of Trento and @ Center for Information and Communication Technology,
<br>Fondazione
<br>Bruno Kessler
<br>Office 0461 314140
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