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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherUcl Press
ISBN-139781787359628
eBay Product ID (ePID)6049065065
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SubjectSociology, Science, Anthropology
Publication Year2021
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameThe Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorPauline Garvey, Laila Abed Rabho, Maya de Vries, Marilia Duque, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Shireen Walton, Daniel Miller, Charlotte Hawkins, Xinyuan Wang, Patrick Awondo
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Width156 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorCharlotte Hawkins, Maya de Vries, Patrick Awondo, Xinyuan Wang, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Pauline Garvey, Laila Abed Rabho, Marilia Duque, Shireen Walton, Daniel Miller
