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1 online resource. |
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Ageing with smartphones
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter summaries -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The smart and the phone -- An outline of our project -- The fieldsites -- Bento, São Paulo, Brazil -- Cuan, Ireland -- Dar al-Hawa, Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) -- Kampala, Uganda -- Kyoto and Kchi, Japan -- NoLo, Milan, Italy -- Santiago, Chile -- Shanghai, China -- Thornhill, Dublin, Ireland -- Yaoundé, Cameroon -- History of the smartphone -- Anthropology and other disciplines |
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Externalities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 What people say about smartphones -- The state and the media -- Citizenship and consensus -- Commerce: the smartphone and app industries -- People's discourse and ambivalence -- The unambivalent -- Fake news -- Academic studies of these discourses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The smartphone in context -- Smartphones as objects -- Smartphones and status -- The cost of smartphones -- Problems of access -- Screen Ecology -- Social Ecology -- Networks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 From apps to everyday life -- Introduction: not starting with apps |
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The app interviews -- Scalable Solutionism -- How the world changed the app -- Health beyond solutionism -- Apps and screens -- Where do apps come from? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Perpetual Opportunism -- Opportunistic photography -- Maps/movement/travel -- News and information -- Audio entertainment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Crafting -- Crafting: the artisanal transformation of smartphones and lives -- Crafting the individual -- Relationships -- Religion -- Cultural norms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Age and smartphones -- Youth and intergenerational relationships |
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How smartphones make people younger -- Teaching and learning smartphone skills -- Specialist apps and devices -- Problems and benefits associated with smartphones -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 The heart of the smartphone: LINE, WeChat and WhatsApp -- A brief history -- The visual expression of emotions and care -- The transformation of family -- From family to community -- WhatsApp and religion -- The useful app -- Commerce and corporations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 General and theoretical reflections -- Introduction -- The Transportal Home -- Beyond the anthropomorphic machine |
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The Relational Smartphone -- Contradiction and ambivalence -- Surveillance -- Care -- Ideology, privacy and the fine line between care and surveillance -- Conclusion: 'smart from below' -- Notes -- Appendix: methodology and content -- The context -- Ethnography -- Comparison and generalisation -- Ethics -- Dissemination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparative research project that investigates how older people use smartphones. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost Ebooks, viewed on September 13, 2021) |
| Subject |
Smartphones -- Social aspects.
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Computers and older people.
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Technology and older people.
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Téléphones intelligents -- Aspect social.
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Ordinateurs et personnes âgées.
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Technologie et personnes âgées.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Computers and older people
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Technology and older people
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| Indexed Term |
Mathematics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781787359642 |
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Print version: 1787359638 9781787359635 178735962X 9781787359628 (OCoLC)1225068836 |
| ISBN |
9781787359642 (electronic bk.) |
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1787359646 (electronic bk.) |
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9781787359611 (electronic bk.) |
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1787359611 (electronic bk.) |
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1787359638 |
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9781787359635 |
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178735962X |
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9781787359628 |
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9781787359659 (Kindle ebook) |
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1787359654 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000069302169 |
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UKMGB 020130616 |
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AU@ 000069132501 |
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AU@ 000074010121 |
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AU@ 000069676999 |
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