The Global Smartphone

Beyond a Youth Technology

The Global Smartphone
Daniel Miller, Shireen Walton, Xinyuan Wang, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marilia Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins
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6 May 2021 UK
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9781787359628
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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.
"The most in depth study ever to look at how adults use smartphones reveals how we are ' homeless' when we lose them because they are where we increasingly express our personalities, interests and values. . . . A team of 11 anthropologists spent 16 months documenting smartphone use in nine countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, with a particular focus on older adults. Their analysis is published in The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology. " * UCL News * "Smartphone users have become "human snails carrying our homes in our pockets", with a tendency to ignore friends and family in favour of their device, according to a landmark study, The Global Smartphone. " * MSN News * "The landmark study found that rather than being something to play with to pass the time, people treat their smartphones like their home, a place where they live. " * Daily Mail *
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 Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL. 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 Yaounde 1. Maya de Vries is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Marilia Duque is a researcher at ESPM (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) Sao Paulo. 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 a PhD student at UCL Anthropology. Alfonso Otaegui is Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
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ISBN-13: 9781787359628
Published: 6 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: UCL Press
Publisher: UCL Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 320

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