ArticleThe Journal of social issues2022
Ageism on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Questions About Aging and Later Life on Quora.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Advocating for Older Adults in the Age of Social Media: Strategies to Achieve Peak Engagement on Twitter.JMIR aging · 2024Article
- Youth is Prized in Medicine, Old Age is Valued in Law: Analysis of Media Narratives Over 200 Years.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Innovations for an Aging Society through the Lens of Patent Data.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Using Twitter to Understand COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Ageism During the Pandemic.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Leaving no one behind: successful ageing at the intersection of ageism and ableism.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2023Article
- Explaining the process of formation of ageism among the iranian older adults.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Understanding the Response of Canadians to the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Kübler-Ross Model: Twitter Data Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Granfluencers on TikTok: Factors linked to positive self-portrayals of older adults on social media.PloS one · 2023Article
- Videos about older adults on TikTok.PloS one · 2023Article
- Intersections of ageism toward older adults and other isms during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Ageism toward older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Intergenerational conflict and support.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Older adults' perceptions and experiences of ageism during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Are You Willing to Protect the Health of Older People? Intergenerational Contact and Ageism as Predictors of Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccination Passport.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Is Protecting Older Adults from COVID-19 Ageism? A Comparative Cross-cultural Constructive Grounded Theory from the United Kingdom and Colombia.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Eradicating ageism through social campaigns: An Israeli case study in the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- "You are stealing our present": Younger people's ageism towards older people predicts attitude towards age-based COVID-19 restriction measures.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Reducing ageism toward older adults and highlighting older adults as contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has sparked a resurgence of scholarly interest in the issue of ageism. Whether the outbreak thwarts or facilitates efforts to combat ageism hinges upon public sentiments toward the older demographic. This study aims to explore discourse surrounding older adults by analyzing 183,179 related tweets posted during the COVID-19 pandemic from February to December 2020. Overall, sentiments toward older adults became significantly less negative over time, being the least negative in April, August, and October, though the score remained below the neutral value throughout the 11 months. Our topic modelling analysis generated four themes: "The Need to Protect Older Adults" (41%), "Vulnerability and Mortality" (36%), "Failure of Political Leadership" (12%), and "Resilience" (11%). These findings indicate nascent support for older adults, though attempts to show solidarity may well worsen benevolent ageism.
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