TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Daniel AU - Rabho,Laila Abed AU - Awondo,Patrick AU - de Vries,Maya AU - Duque, MarĂ­lia, AU - Garvey, Pauline, AU - Haapio-Kirk, Laura, AU - Hawkins, Charlotte, AU - Otaegui, Alfonso, AU - Walton, Shireen, AU - Wang, Xinyuan, ED - UCL Press TI - The global smartphone: beyond a youth technology T2 - Ageing with smartphones SN - 9781787359611 (PDF ebook) : PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - UCL Press KW - Smartphones KW - Social aspects KW - Computers and older people KW - Computers and IT N1 - Made available as an Open Access pdf by UCL Press N2 - 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 UR - https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/171335 ER -