TY - JOUR AU - Esposito, Maurizio AU - Romualdi, Iolanda PY - 2022/01/13 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Technological Acceleration, Ageing Process and COVID-19. The Role of Scientific Information between Opportunities and Limits. Results of an Empirical Research in Central Italy JF - Italian Sociological Review JA - ISR VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.13136/isr.v12i1.518 UR - https://italiansociologicalreview.com/ojs/index.php/ISR/article/view/518 SP - 41 AB - In this article, the authors present the results of an empirical research regarding people over 65 years old living in Central Italy, that have contracted the Sars-CoV-2 virus. The choice of such target is strictly dependent on the need to investigate, specifically, how this category, in a risky situation, was able to deal with the illness and cope with the whole condition; both in relation to the management of health and governmental information, and in relation to the use of information channels and technological devices. Through a research carried out with qualitative methodology, a series of analysis emerged around: 1) the idea of promoting and ensuring digital literacy with a view to the social innovation to cope with the risks of ‘infodemic’; 2) the urge to reflect on the necessity of keeping active and constant the dialogue between scientific community and user/citizen in the view of a transfer of knowledge and techno-scientific information, especially in periods of health crisis, in order to mitigate the effects due to digital divide; 3) the need to analyze the life of older people in a context of indeterminacy and fear in which social habits and consolidated certainties have been subjected to a totalizing tension. ER -