The Global Smartphone Beyond A Youth Technology Ageing With Smartphones Daniel Miller by Daniel Miller, Shireen Walton, Xinyuan Wang, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya De Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui 9781787359635, 1787359638 instant download after payment.

A look at the adoption of smartphones by older people across the globe. The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose--but do we really know what it is, or what its consequences are for people's lives around the world? This volume presents the findings of eleven anthropologists in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America on the adoption of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are a technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from a comparative research project on the ways that people use smartphones. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which the user can transform it. It follows that in order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland--all alongside diverse trajectories of aging in Al Quds, Brazil, and Italy.