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Bowen, Lauren Marshall – College English, 2012
The magazine of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) often relies on problematic rhetorics that privilege youth-centered ideals and create limited representations of older adults' literacy in digital times. These rhetorics rest on a metaphor of repair, which labels aging adults as primarily bodies in need of fixing or protection. In…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Literacy, Technology, Cultural Context