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1 online resource (315 pages) |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The smartphone is usually literally in front of our noses, that's why we think we know what it is. But do we know? To answer this question, eleven anthropologists lived for 16 months in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the use of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that they are a technology for everyone, not just young people.The Global Smartphone presents a series of new perspectives that emerge from this global and comparative research project. The smartphone has become both a place in which we live and a device that we use to have "perpetual opportunism", since it is always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than a "device with applications" and explore the differences between what people say about it and the way they use it.The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, he quickly assimilates our personal values. To understand this we must consider a series 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, along with the diverse trajectories of aging. in Al-Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then will we know what the smartphone is and be able to understand its consequences on the lives of people around the world. |
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Smartphones -- Social aspects.
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Computers and older people.
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Téléphones intelligents -- Aspect social.
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Ordinateurs et personnes âgées.
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Computers and older people
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| Added Author |
Fuentealba, Marcela, 1973- translator.
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Davidson, Ian, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781800081437 (electronic bk.) |
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180008143X (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000074156399 |
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AU@ 000075798376 |
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