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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| Series: | Ageing with Smartphones |
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| Abstract | 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. |
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| AbstractList | The smartphoneis often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would knowwhat it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 monthsliving in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on thetake up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphonesare technology for everyone, not just for the young.The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from thisglobal and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much aplace within which we live as a device we use to provide 'perpetualopportunism', as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphoneis more than an 'app device' and explore differences between what people sayabout smartphones and how they use them.The smartphoneis unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, itquickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must takeinto consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visualcommunication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and accessto health information in Chile and Ireland - all alongside diverse trajectoriesof ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphoneis and understand its consequences for people's lives around the world. 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. The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparative research project that investigates how older people use smartphones. |
| Author | Walton, Shireen Hawkins, Charlotte Otaegui, Alfonso Awondo, Patrick Duque, Marília Garvey, Pauline Wang, Xinyuan Abed Rabho, Laila Miller, Daniel de Vries, Maya Haapio-Kirk, Laura |
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| Snippet | 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... The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparative research project that investigates how older people use smartphones. The smartphoneis often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would knowwhat it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent... |
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| SubjectTerms | 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 |
| Subtitle | Beyond a youth technology |
| TableOfContents | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter summaries -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The smart and the phone -- An outline of our project -- The fieldsites -- Bento, São Paulo, Brazil -- Cuan, Ireland -- Dar al-Hawa, Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) -- Kampala, Uganda -- Kyoto and Kōchi, Japan -- NoLo, Milan, Italy -- Santiago, Chile -- Shanghai, China -- Thornhill, Dublin, Ireland -- Yaoundé, Cameroon -- History of the smartphone -- Anthropology and other disciplines -- Externalities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 What people say about smartphones -- The state and the media -- Citizenship and consensus -- Commerce: the smartphone and app industries -- People's discourse and ambivalence -- The unambivalent -- Fake news -- Academic studies of these discourses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The smartphone in context -- Smartphones as objects -- Smartphones and status -- The cost of smartphones -- Problems of access -- Screen Ecology -- Social Ecology -- Networks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 From apps to everyday life -- Introduction: not starting with apps -- The app interviews -- Scalable Solutionism -- How the world changed the app -- Health beyond solutionism -- Apps and screens -- Where do apps come from? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Perpetual Opportunism -- Opportunistic photography -- Maps/movement/travel -- News and information -- Audio entertainment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Crafting -- Crafting: the artisanal transformation of smartphones and lives -- Crafting the individual -- Relationships -- Religion -- Cultural norms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Age and smartphones -- Youth and intergenerational relationships -- How smartphones make people younger -- Teaching and learning smartphone skills -- Specialist apps and devices Problems and benefits associated with smartphones -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 The heart of the smartphone: LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp -- A brief history -- The visual expression of emotions and care -- The transformation of family -- From family to community -- WhatsApp and religion -- The useful app -- Commerce and corporations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 General and theoretical reflections -- Introduction -- The Transportal Home -- Beyond the anthropomorphic machine -- The Relational Smartphone -- Contradiction and ambivalence -- Surveillance -- Care -- Ideology, privacy and the fine line between care and surveillance -- Conclusion: 'smart from below' -- Notes -- Appendix: methodology and content -- The context -- Ethnography -- Comparison and generalisation -- Ethics -- Dissemination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
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