The Global Smartphone Beyond a youth technology

The Global Smartphone Beyond a youth technology

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The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their re...

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Main Author: Miller, Daniel (auth)
Other Authors: Abed Rabho, Laila (auth), Awondo, Patrick (auth), de Vries, Maya (auth), Duque, Marília (auth), Garvey, Pauline (auth), Haapio-Kirk, Laura (auth), Hawkins, Charlotte (auth), Otaegui, Alfonso (auth), Walton, Shireen (auth), Wang, Xinyuan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2021
Series:Ageing with Smartphones
Subjects:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Communication studies
Popular culture
Media studies
Sociology
Impact of science & technology on society
ethnography
smartphones
ageing
new technology
anthropology
Italy
media studies
older people
cultural studies
popular culture
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Summary:The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide 'perpetual opportunism', as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an 'app device' and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland - all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people's lives around the world.
ISBN:111.9781787359611
9781787359611
9781787359628
9781787359635
9781787359642
9781787359659
Access:Open Access

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