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- “Closer Together”: Using digital storytelling to chart how Melbourne’s aging Irish community uses social mediaPublication . Burke, Liam"From the Great Famine, through to the mass departures of the 1950s and the ‘lost’ generation of the 1980s, modern Irish history has been marked by emigration. Yet in contrast to past mass departures, the availability of new media will ensure that the current generation will not be ‘lost’, when they can so easily be tagged, tweeted, and skyped. However, the enthusiasm for this “Generation Skype” has seen older Irish immigrants largely ignored. This paper will chart how Irish people who moved to Melbourne before the availability of digital technologies now make use of new media to connect with the Irish community in Australia and back in Ireland. This paper is based on a larger research project that uses digital storytelling techniques to allow older people, who are often dismissed as falling on the other side of the digital divide, to reflect on their engagement with new media. Specifically, this paper will draw on surveys with over forty older Irish people in Melbourne and more than a dozen on-camera interviews. The many topics discussed by participants include: pre-digital communications practices, difficulties using new technologies, motivation for adopting social media, connection to Irish groups in Melbourne, and narrowing the distance between Ireland and Australia. From these unique stories and experiences a picture of Melbourne’s Irish community emerges, yet each across each account there is a desire to connect a community whose stories have all too often gone untold."
- Gender influence in the transition to retirement: a qualitative studyPublication . Pedreiro, Ana TeresaIntroduction: Retirement is one of the major transitions in a person life. The work identity is, many times, the only identity the person has and so a loss of identity can be felted after retirement. It can also lead to different vulnerabilities, including health vulnerabilities. Gender differences during active life originate different experiences for men and women that influence the identification of personal goals and resources for reaching those goals, after retirement. Objective: To know the perceptions of Portuguese retirees about their transition to retirement, according to gender. Methodology: We conducted a descriptive study of a qualitative nature. The target population was retirees (retired for less than five years) registered in health care providers in Primary Health Care of the Regional Health Administration Center. The selected participants were subjected to an approach by focus group, after signing informed consent, and the information was gathered by digital audio recording and subjected to thematic analysis using the NVivo10® program. Results: The following themes emerged: before retirement, after retirement, the retirement moment and the future perspective. Conclusion: Individuals perceive retirement depending on their personal characteristics, including gender. It was also perceived that retirement interfered with their usual routines and with their family. Is highlighted the interference that retirement had on the marital relationship.