Investigating older people’s media repertoires: the intergenerational interview as a research and pedagogical tool

Digital media have an intergenerational appeal, meeting older people’s practices, agendas and everyday habits. Many people aged over 65 years lack adequate digital competences and media literacies to support learning, well-being, and participation, thus imposing a need to discuss older peo- ple’s opportunities, willingness, and abilities to use digital media. For this reason exploring older people’s media use and repertoires, digital competences, and media literacies is an important step to promote media literacy education across all ages, as shown in this study. The article focu- ses on the use of a particular tool – the intergenerational interview – as a research and pedagogical tool to detect older people’s media habits and to support media literacy education across all ages.