As social spaces are culturally diverse and digitally networked, the reality of our lives is shaped by processes of globalization and digitization. This leads to the question of whether popular cultures enable or impede (inter-)cultural exchange and global communication. To explore this, the contributors to this volume analyze representations of the intersections of gender and age/ing in cultural and media consumption, such as literature, film, music, and social media. The interconnectedness between gender and aging has been evident since the 1990s and enabled the recognition of age as a cultural category - now is the time to take this intersectional analysis further.

Nicole Haring is a PhD candidate in English and American studies at the Center for Inter-American Studies at Universität Graz, Austria, with a DOC scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Her fields of expertise are feminist theory and gender studies, US-American literature and cultural studies, Inter-American studies, and feminist pedagogy.