Disrupting discourses of age? Exploring the identity work of older digital technology sector professionals
研究年长数字技术从业者如何通过身份工作抵抗年龄刻板印象，重新塑造自己的老龄化身份，对关注职场年龄歧视和数字包容的人有参考价值。
The digital technology sector is often subject to reports of ageism. Given this context, our study examines how age is discursively negotiated within the identity work of older digital technology knowledge workers. Our discursive analysis demonstrates how our participants resist, reposition and reimagine their ageing identities in ways that disrupt common stereotypes about technology and age. We propose this is achieved through identity work that downplays established ideas of the digitally limited ageing subject by amplifying more complex and occupationally desired identities. This research adds nuance to understandings of age categorisations and the ageing knowledge worker, explicates socio-technological insights and explains how an ageing identity can be constructed within the digital technology sector.