The Global Smartphone Beyond a youth technology

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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Hlavní autoři:	Miller, Daniel, Abed Rabho, Laila, Awondo, Patrick, de Vries, Maya, Duque, Marília, Garvey, Pauline, Haapio-Kirk, Laura, Hawkins, Charlotte, Otaegui, Alfonso, Walton, Shireen, Wang, Xinyuan
Médium:	E-kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	London UCL Press 2021
Vydání:	1
Edice:	Ageing with Smartphones
Témata:	ageing Anthropology Communication studies Computers and older people Cultural and media studies Cultural studies ethnography Impact of science and technology on society Interdisciplinary studies Italy JBCC1 Popular culture Mathematics and Science Media studies new technology older people popular culture Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects Science: general issues Smartphones Social and cultural anthropology Society and culture: general Society and Social Sciences Sociology Sociology and anthropology Technology and older people
ISBN:	9781787359628, 1787359646, 1787359611, 1787359654, 9781787359635, 9781787359659, 9781787359642, 9781787359611, 178735962X, 1787359638
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Shrnutí:	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:	9781787359628 1787359646 1787359611 1787359654 9781787359635 9781787359659 9781787359642 9781787359611 178735962X 1787359638
DOI:	10.14324/111.9781787359611