Older Adults and ICT Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic,
including Age and Gender Perspectives on Biometric
Authorisation / Starejši odrasli in uporaba ikt med pandemijo
COVID-19, upoštevajoč starost in spol v pespektivi biometrične
avtorizacije

C 2023

Older Adults and ICT Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including Age and Gender Perspectives on Biometric Authorisation / Starejši odrasli in uporaba ikt med pandemijo COVID-19, upoštevajoč starost in spol v pespektivi biometrične avtorizacije

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Tomáš DOSEDĚL and Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Older Adults and ICT Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including Age and Gender Perspectives on Biometric Authorisation / Starejši odrasli in uporaba ikt med pandemijo COVID-19, upoštevajoč starost in spol v pespektivi biometrične avtorizacije

Authors

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Tomáš DOSEDĚL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1st revised ed. Maribor, Starejši odrasli v času epidemije COVID-19 v luči družbenih sprememb in digitalizacije / Older Adults during the COVID-19 Epidemic in the Term of Social Changes and Digitalization, p. 127-142, 16 pp. Collection Social Gerontology, 2023

Publisher

AMEU – ECM, Alma Mater Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50401 Sociology

Country of publisher

Slovenia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/23:00134463

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-961-7183-16-0

Keywords in English

older adults; ICT literacy; digital exclusion; biometric authentication; gender differences

Abstract

V originále

The pressure to practice social and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in digitisation, the effects of which are only now being explored. Older adults are perceived as a group that are significantly at risk of digital exclusion because their knowledge of modern communication technology is considerably conditioned by age. In this chapter, we analyse the digital literacy of Czech older people during the pandemic and compare it with the digital knowledge of the Czech adult population. Our data was obtained from a survey conducted on the Czech adult population in the autumn of 2020 (n=2341). The results of the survey show differences in ICT literacy by age and gender. Older adults use the Internet and smartphones less often, value their own technological knowledge less, have a lower awareness of biometric authentication, and more negatively evaluate the effects of using technology on personal freedom and control over life. While older women use the Internet and smartphones a little more than older men, their knowledge of biometric authentication is lower, and they have a lower assessment of their own technological competence. In terms of digital exclusion, in older age cohorts the proportion of those who do not use the Internet at all is much higher than it is in younger groups. The decline in use begins in the 50- to 59-year-old cohort. The development of e-government and e-health should therefore be accompanied by an emphasis on education, and the risk of increasing the level of digital exclusion should be considered.

Links

TL02000134, research and development project

Name: Průzkum a edukace občanů České republiky v oblasti biometrie

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic

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PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela, Tomáš DOSEDĚL and Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ. Older Adults and ICT Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including Age and Gender Perspectives on Biometric Authorisation / Starejši odrasli in uporaba ikt med pandemijo COVID-19, upoštevajoč starost in spol v pespektivi biometrične avtorizacije (Older Adults and ICT Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including Age and Gender Perspectives on Biometric Authorisation). In Jana Goriup, Barbara Grintal, Peter Seljak. Starejši odrasli v času epidemije COVID-19 v luči družbenih sprememb in digitalizacije / Older Adults during the COVID-19 Epidemic in the Term of Social Changes and Digitalization. 1st revised ed. Maribor: AMEU – ECM, Alma Mater Press, 2023, p. 127-142. Collection Social Gerontology. ISBN 978-961-7183-16-0.

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