The global smartphone : beyond a youth technology.

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

The Global Smartphone presents the results of a global comparative research project that investigates how older people use smartphones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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