Pleasure Growers: Experiences and Aging Sense Production in the Digital Social Network

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss the production of meaning and aesthetic experiences on aging in community "New Face of the Third Age," in a digital social network, Facebook. A dialogical analysis, based from the perspective of Bakhtin (1997), was the methodology used in this article. The empirical object constitutes of digital publications that present positively valued aspects of old age, through self-representation of a group of elderly, called by Morace (2009), pleasure of growers. Subjects who rediscover the values of their desires of youth, grounded by the experience and the achieved maturity. It starts with the premise that the value judgments happen in everyday verbal interactions, in the constitution of meanings made by dialogues (Bakhtin, 1997), by experiences in the community. The reality structure of the individual, the "old me" as a social and historical process. As a result, one realizes that the elderly are increasingly grabbing communication technologies and information to refract negative views of old age.