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The global smartphone : beyond a youth technology.
The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparative research project that investigates how older people use smartphones.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[London] :
UCL Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Ageing with smartphones
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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