Not just another pencil
Computer- mediated Communication
From a senior's point of view
by Rosaleen Dickson
The WWW has opened a whole new society and a whole new set of opportunities for elders, which they are exploiting, contrary to the notion that the computer world is youth oriented.
Through the World Wide Web, the neighbourhood for our oldest generation is boundless, and so also are the possibilities. The Internet won't last forever, and who knows what will come next, but while they have it, old folks around the world are making the most of this new dimension in private and public expression.
Rosaleen Dickson is one of them. Here she describes her own very personal journeys into cyberspace, some remarkable discoveries about its enabling qualities, and the fascinating stories of other senior netizens.
One of her Web sites, Old Folks at Home on the World Wide Web, at
http://www.flora.org/oldfolks is a companion to this book and provides links to everything herein mentioned.Chapter 1 begins here: Chapter I Old Folks