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The Global Smartphone

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A look at the adoption of smartphones by older people across the globe. The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose—but do we really know what it is, or what its consequences are for people’s lives around the world? This volume presents the findings of eleven anthropologists in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America on the adoption of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are a technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from a comparative research project on the ways that people use smartphones. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which the user can transform it. It follows that 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 aging in Al Quds, Brazil, and Italy.

Author Biography:

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at UCL. He has specialised in the anthropology of material culture, consumption and now digital anthropology. He recently directed the Why We Post project about the use and consequences of social media. He is author/editor of over 40 books including The Comfort of Things, A Theory of Shopping, Stuff, Tales from Facebook and his most recent book about hospice patients, The Comfort of People. Shireen Walton is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Xinyuan Wang is a digital anthropologist based at UCL’s Department of Anthropology. She is the author of Social Media in Industrial China (2016), and co-author of How the World Changed Social Media (2016) and The Global Smartphone (2021). Laila Abed Rabho is a researcher at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Patrick Awondo is Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL Anthropology and a lecturer at the University of Yaoundé 1. Maya de Vries is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Marília Duque is a researcher at ESPM (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) in São Paulo, Brazil. Pauline Garvey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Her research interests include material culture, consumption, design, and Nordic domesticity before her more recent interest in digital anthropology and ageing. Recent publications include a special issue of the Journal of Design History titled 'Design Dispersed', edited with Adam Drazin (2016), and a monograph entitled Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses (2018). Research for this work was funded by the Irish Research Council and The Swedish Institute. Laura Haapio-Kirk is a PhD student at UCL Anthropology and RAI/Leach Fellow in Public Anthropology. Charlotte Hawkins is Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Anthropology. Her work focuses on social economies of mental health and wellbeing. Alfonso Otaegui is Assistant Professor at the Anthropology Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He completed his PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
Release date Australia
May 6th, 2021
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
105 Illustrations, color
ISBN-13
9781787359635
Product ID
34801455

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