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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorAbed Rabho, Laila
dc.contributor.authorAwondo, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorde Vries, Maya
dc.contributor.authorDuque, Marília
dc.contributor.authorGarvey, Pauline
dc.contributor.authorHaapio-Kirk, Laura
dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Charlotte
dc.contributor.authorOtaegui, Alfonso
dc.contributor.authorWalton, Shireen
dc.contributor.authorWang, Xinyuan
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-08T12:15:57Z
dc.date.available2021-12-08T12:15:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20211208_9781787359611_27
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51795
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAgeing with Smartphones
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular cultureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on societyen_US
dc.subject.otherethnography
dc.subject.othersmartphones
dc.subject.otherageing
dc.subject.othernew technology
dc.subject.otheranthropology
dc.subject.otherItaly
dc.subject.othermedia studies
dc.subject.otherolder people
dc.subject.othercultural studies
dc.subject.otherpopular culture
dc.titleThe Global Smartphone
dc.title.alternativeBeyond a youth technology
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781787359611
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2
oapen.relation.isbn9781787359611
oapen.relation.isbn9781787359628
oapen.relation.isbn9781787359635
oapen.relation.isbn9781787359642
oapen.relation.isbn9781787359659
oapen.imprintUCL Press
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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