Rosemarie Gilligan: PhD student in the Department of Library and Information Studies and affiliated to the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University College Dublin Doctoral research focuses on the domestication of ICTs in Irish rural households PhD study is funded by scholarships from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) (http://www.irchss.ie) and RTÉ (http://www.rte.ie) Rosemarie Gilligan's home page is http://www.europemedia.net/editors.asp?EditorID=36 Email: rosemarie.gilligan@ucd.ie
Recent research MA research in the School of Communications, Dublin City University, explored how social and cultural factors influence domestic use/consumption of ICTs in the West of Ireland. It also examined how rural households domesticate ICTs into everyday life. From 1998 – 1999 project manager and researcher on the Older Generation and the European Information Society. Access to the Information Society (AOP- IS) project at the European Institute for the Media (EIM), Düsseldorf, Germany. This project had the financial support of the European Commission’s Information Society Project Office (ISPO) and was presented in the ISPO Showcase 2000. http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/showcase/projects/aop-is/i_public.html Project co-ordinator of the European MediaAge network as part of the ‘Changing Media in an Ageing Society’ project at the EIM in 1998.
Network & Affiliation Member of the Association of Former Trainees of the European Union (ADEK).
Recent Paper All of the following reports from the AOP- IS project may be downloaded at the home page mentioned above. (With Penny Campbell, Josephine Dries and Nina Obermaier) First project report: The Current Barriers for Older People in Accessing the Information Society. EIM September 1998 (available in English only) (With Penny Campbell and Josephine Dries) Second project report: Inclusion of older people in the Information Society: policies and initiatives in Europe at EU and national level and in the USA. EIM March 1999 (available in English only) (With Penny Campbell and Josephine Dries) Final project report: Recommendations for policy makers, NGOs and industry. EIM July 1999 (available in English, Dutch and Spanish) (With Josephine Dries) USA Country report. EIM December 1998 (available in English only) Campbell, P., Dries, J., Gilligan, R. (2000) Die ältere Generation und die europäische Informationsgesellschaft: Zugang zur Informationsgesellschaft (AOP-IS)’ in Gehrke, B. (ed.) in Ältere Menschen Neue Medien – anschluss an die Zukunft, ecmc Working Paper, Vol. 2, pp.25 – 43. European Centre for Media Competence, Marl, Germany http://www.ecmc.de/content/new/wop/wop2inhalt.htm Gilligan, R. (2000) ‘Older People and the Information Society in Europe’ paper in the Proceedings of The 6th European Assembly on Telework and New Ways of Working, held in Aarhus, Denmark, September 1999, pp.155-161 http://www.eto.org.uk/twork/aarhus99/aarhusmain.pdf International journals: Gilligan, R. (1999) ‘Computer Technology and Older Adults: European and American Perspectives’. The Business & Aging Networker, quarterly newsletter of the Business Forum on Aging of the American Society on Aging, Vol. VIII, No. 1, pp. 1+6 http://www.asaging.org/networks/bfa/networker-081.html Gilligan, R. (1999) ‘Getting Elders Wired: Progress Report on Europe and the U.S.’Aging Today, bimonthly magazine of the American Society on Aging, Vol. XX, No.6, pp. 13+18 http://www.asaging.org/at/at-206/gettingelderswired.html Gilligan, R. (1999) ‘Connecting Older Adults to Europe's Information Society: Barriers and Bridges’. Innovations in Aging, quarterly magazine of The National Council on the Aging (NCOA), Vol.28, No. 2, pp. 13-17
Interest in Cost269 Participation in COST269 offers the opportunity to meet and discuss user aspects of ICTs with experts from different backgrounds in several European countries. It also provides a platform to exchange ideas and find out about research on ICTs at a European level.