The global smartphone beyond a youth technology / [electronic resource] :
Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang
- London : UCL Press, 2021.
- 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations (colour).
- Ageing with smartphones .
- Ageing with smartphones. .
Made available as an Open Access pdf by UCL Press.
The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. 'The Global Smartphone' presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project.
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Smartphones--Social aspects. Computers and older people. Computers and IT.