Global Smartphone / / Daniel Miller.
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 re...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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520 | |a 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. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide 'perpetual opportunism', as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an 'app device' and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. 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 ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people's lives around the world. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover. | |
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