Activism

Political activism among elderly people is not being discussed enough. I certainly
do not see any information regarding this matter. Even though senior activists are
passionate on a range of topics, from political to personal causes, I have not been
able to find out much about this as one of the very few news articles I’ve come
across on this topic was published in 2014 on a website called “a place for mom”.
Sadly, as in so many aspects of society, older people are largely invisible as
activists. The media typically favors Millennials and Gen Z for its stories on
marches and protests. To further prove this point of view, “In America, we
associate activism with youth,” says Deana Rohlinger, a sociologist at Florida State
University.
I would love to find out much more about political activism of elderly people in
our society, whether its locally or globally, because by reading up on the articles
stated above, I found some really interesting people. I observed that elderly tend
to trust physical forms of communication more, like talking face to face and
observing their behavior, analyzing their ideas and than maybe giving them
modern platform to voice their opinions, like some digital articles on more
credible websites that some of the younger generations visits as well, so everyone
gets to know those people and maybe join their causes.
For this kind of a qualitative research I believe again, face to face communication
and interviews or maybe even group discussions work best. Because just making
them file a plain survey is not enough, it will just give you dry information without
much context. As for interviews and discussion you can analyze those much
deeper and actually get behind them.