Socio-Gerontechnology Network: Annual Meeting

From 21st to 23rd of October the annual meeting (and 10th anniversary) of the Socio-Gerontechnology Network took place at the WZB Social Science Centre in Berlin. In keeping with the theme of the title „Shaping Inclusive AI for Ageing Societies” international scholars discussed topics and questions around inclusion as well as the challenges and possibilities technologies impose on older adults and ageing. The digital societies research group was represented with four contributions. Carla Greubel presented her work together with Anja Eder and Juliane Jarke on "Negotiating digital inclusion and access to social rights: Practices and experiences of (older) volunteer advisors in the German pension system". Juliane Jarke discussed her latest paper with Sara Skardelly on “Alexa+, are you the future of care? Communicative AI as a participatory infrastructure of care and ageing futures”. Moreover, Leonie Winterpacht presented initial findings and a conceptual framework for her dissertation with Juliane Jarke and Helen Manchester on “Doing Ageing in the Meantime: Negotiating living experiences and anticipated techno-futures with ComAI”, while Ren Aldridge, Helen Manchester, Steve Simons and Juliane Jarke gave glimpses in their research on “Embracing the monstrous. Speculative and arts-based approaches to feminist ageing futures in datafied worlds”.