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dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Charlotte
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-04T08:38:21Z
dc.date.available2024-07-04T08:38:21Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91223
dc.description.abstractAgeing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones and mobile phones on older people’s health and everyday lives as part of the global 'Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing' project. In taking the lens of the smartphone to understand experiences of ageing in this context, the monograph presents the articulation and practice of ‘togetherness in the dotcom age’. Taking a ‘convivial’ approach, which celebrates multiple ways of knowing about social life, Charlotte Hawkins draws from these expressions about cooperative morality and modernity to consider the everyday mitigation of profound social change. ‘Dotcom’ is understood to encompass everything from the influence of social media to urban migration and lifestyles in the city, to shifts in ways of knowing and relating. At the same time, dotcom tools such as mobile phones and smartphones facilitate elder care through, for example, regular mobile money remittances. This book explores how dotcom relates to older people’s health, in particular their care norms, social standing, values of respect and relatedness, and intergenerational relationships – both political and personal. It also re-frames the youth-centricity of research on the city and work, new media and technology, politics and service provision in Uganda. Through ethnographic consideration of everyday life and self-formation in this context, the monograph seeks to contribute to an ever-incomplete understanding of how we relate to each other and to the world around us. Praise for Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda ‘Offering a fresh perspective on the lives of older people in Kampala, this book critically explores the intersection between aging, urbanism and technology, and acts as a clarion call for scholars, policymakers and researchers to understand the everyday lives of older people in Africa.’ Josiah Taru, Great Zimbabwe Universityen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAgeing with Smartphonesen_US
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::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studiesen_US
dc.subject.othersmartphones;technology;ageing;Uganda;Africa;urban studies;anthropology;ethnography;SOCIOLOGY;MEDIA STUDIESen_US
dc.titleAgeing with Smartphones in Ugandaen_US
dc.title.alternativeTogetherness in the dotcom ageen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/ 111.978180 0085 138en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800085152en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800085145en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800085169en_US
oapen.pages237en_US
oapen.place.publicationLondonen_US


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