College English May 2012

Beyond Repair: Literacy, Technology, and a Curriculum of Aging

Lauren Marshall Bowen

Abstract

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.

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College English
Published
2012-05-01
DOI
10.58680/ce201219331
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