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Ageing with smartphones in urban Italy: care and community in Milan and beyond /

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy explores ageing and technology amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart cities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walton, Shireen Marion, 1986-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2021.
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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
  • Series Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • Movement and mobilities
  • Introduction to Milan
  • Introduction to the fieldsite
  • NoLo: what's in a name?
  • Methodology: urban digital ethnography
  • The approach
  • The people
  • Notes
  • 2 Experiences of ageing: policies, perceptions and practices
  • Introduction: (how) does age matter?
  • Ageing actively in focus
  • Ageing and care
  • Care responsibilities
  • Badanti (care workers)
  • Case di riposo, case di cura (retirement and care homes)
  • Midlife and retirement: time, desire, freedom and money
  • Time and freedom
  • Money, time and financial precarity
  • The bridge generation
  • Conclusion: ageing at present
  • Notes
  • 3 Everyday life, activities and activisms
  • Introduction
  • Seasonal rhythms
  • Individual rituals and routines
  • Space and place
  • Activities
  • Being together online and offline
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 4 Social relations: social availability
  • Introduction
  • Kinships and social practices: traditional and contemporary perspectives
  • La famiglia (the family)
  • Casa (house/home)
  • Nonna (grandmother)
  • Vivere da sola/o (living alone)
  • Privacy and autonomy
  • Public and private lives
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 5 Smartphones: constant companions
  • Introduction
  • Introductory portraits
  • Local infrastructure and information
  • Smartphone discourses
  • Disinformation and misinformation
  • Apps
  • WhatsApp
  • Talking without talking (parlare senza parlare)
  • Audio messages
  • Visual communication: memes and stickers
  • Talking and expressing care
  • Objects of everyday life
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 6 Health and care in digital times
  • Introduction
  • The national healthcare system in Italy and in Lombardy
  • The development of digital health in Italy
  • Health apps
  • Self-sufficiency and digital technologies
  • Care and communication
  • Googling for health
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 7 Coming of age with smartphones
  • Introduction
  • Mahmood's victory
  • Dina
  • Dina and Noor
  • Seconde generazioni and '2G' youth in Milan
  • Digital connections and identities across borders
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 8 Life purpose: narratives of ageing
  • Introduction
  • Awareness and awakenings
  • Ugo
  • Augustina
  • Umberta
  • Transnational mobilities and well-being
  • Crises and contradiction
  • Conclusion: the moving self and the smartphone
  • The existential object
  • Notes
  • 9 Conclusion: threading together
  • Introduction
  • Being and becoming together
  • Age(ing) and beyond
  • Ageing with smartphones: a 'constant companion' for the contemporary world
  • Conclusion: ageing together, differently
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover