Vera Gallistl, MA

Vera Gallistl is a sociologist who works in the field of critical and cultural gerontology. In her work, she focuses on the theoretical and empirical exploration of ageing with digital technologies. She is an affiliated student in the ACT (Ageing+Communication+Technologies) project, where she is involved in the cross-national longitudinal study “Older Audiences in the Digital Media Environment” and a member of the DFG-funded early-career researcher network “Material Gerontology”. Theoretically, Vera Gallistl is concerned with introducing practice and cultural theories in ageing research. She currently works on her PhD project in which she explores the cultural field as a topic for (critical) gerontology (Working title: “Orchestrating Ageing – Doing Age in the Field of Cultural Production”) as well as several national and international research projects at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna.