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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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : UCL Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.