The global smartphone: beyond a youthtechnology

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The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparativeresearch project that investigates how older people use smartphones.

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Full title :The global smartphone : beyond a youthtechnology.

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The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparativeresearch project that investigates how older people use smartphones.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):UCL Press
Place of Publication:S.l
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1787359611, 1787359646, 9781787359611, 9781787359642
oclc:on1259278639
LC Classification:HE9713
Dewey Decimal:303.4834

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 Kōchi, Japan -- NoLo, Milan, Italy -- Santiago, Chile -- Shanghai, China -- Thornhill, Dublin, Ireland -- Yaoundé, Cameroon -- History of the smartphone -- Anthropology and other disciplines

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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Computers and older people e-books Livres numériques Ordinateurs et personnes âgées Smartphones -- Social aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Technologie et personnes âgées Technology and older people Téléphones intelligents -- Aspect social Téléphones intelligents -- Social aspec…