Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society

The paper deals with the media image of senior age citizens as a demographic stratum in linguistic, social, cultural, and axiological aspects. The material involved online Greek media texts on the topic of digitalization with clusters of linguistic tools that explicate the image of sixty-plusers. Th...

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Main Author: Apal'kova Tat'yana
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Language:English
Published: Kemerovo State University 2025-07-01
Series:Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
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Online Access:https://jsocnet.ru/en/nauka/article/100950/view
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description The paper deals with the media image of senior age citizens as a demographic stratum in linguistic, social, cultural, and axiological aspects. The material involved online Greek media texts on the topic of digitalization with clusters of linguistic tools that explicate the image of sixty-plusers. The research methods consisted of content analysis, description, structural and semantic analysis, and comparison, categorization, and classification. They made it possible to reveal the way elderly people behave in digital environment and the linguistic means that describe these behavior patterns. The cluster of Greek lexical units attributing this age group highlighted the current axiological profile of senior citizens in the Greek linguistic worldview, as well as some verbal markers that reflect the attitude of younger content makers and users. The modern media texts actualizing the concept of sixty-somethings demonstrated non-stereotypical perceptions and a broader semantic volume, which indicates the ongoing reformatting of social values. As a global social trend, the digital transformation of society is changing the public attitude to senior citizens: in just a decade, the new senior generation will be digitally literate. The media coverage of the way today’s senior citizens adapt to the digital environment, with all its stages and linguistic means, allows for a temporal juncture of the contemporary Greek social values.
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Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society
Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
senior age
internet media
digital technology
digital skills
sixty-year-olds
elderly people
pensioner
title Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society
title_full Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society
title_fullStr Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society
title_full_unstemmed Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society
title_short Senior Age in Greek Media: Digital Transformation and Society
title_sort senior age in greek media digital transformation and society
topic senior age
internet media
digital technology
digital skills
sixty-year-olds
elderly people
pensioner
url https://jsocnet.ru/en/nauka/article/100950/view
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