Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Ageing is taken as an influential process in human life worldwide. The ageing perspectives from the world's population engaged in social media platforms is principally noteworthy, since the world suffers a significant change in human lives through ageing and are ultimately reaching deaths. A narrative analysis sheds new light on the multifaceted ageing phenomenon bringing changes in all the spheres of human’s lives and that could help to prepare ourselves for confronting the challenges on the onset of ageing process. The study aims to address the experimental question tempts to define the term ageing. For proceeding with this question, the researcher has used various social media platforms including Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook were utilized to exactly narrate how ageing is defined. The main objective designed while considering the core values of the study addresses the question: How social media community define old age? Ageing is finally traced through different approaches and is defined from various perspective of social media community. The vote towards ageing as more of a biological, social, psychological, or mental process has been expressed by the findings of study that directly exposed ageing as more of a biological phenomenon, in comparison to social, mental and psychological process.
Source: Journal of Law & Social Studies
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409504490