[Commlist] New open access book: Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open 
access book that is likely to be of interest to list subscribers: 
/Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and 
beyond/, by Shireen Walton. Download free: https://bit.ly/3xTWZGT 
<https://bit.ly/3xTWZGT>

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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy

Care and community in Milan and beyond

Shireen Walton

Download free: https://bit.ly/3xTWZGT <https://bit.ly/3xTWZGT>

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‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and 
where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves 
throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which 
presents an anthropological account of the everyday experiences of age 
and ageing in an inner-city neighbourhood in Milan, and in places and 
spaces beyond. ‘/Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy’ /explores 
ageing and digital technologies amidst a backdrop of rapid global 
technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart 
cities, and a number of wider socio-economic and technological 
transformations that have brought about significant changes in how 
people live, work and retire, and how they communicate and care for each 
other.

Based on 16 months of urban digital ethnographic research in Milan, the 
smartphone is shown to be a ‘constant companion’ in, of and for 
contemporary life. It accompanies people throughout the day and night, 
and through individual and collective experiences of movement, change 
and rupture. Smartphone practices tap into and reflect the moral 
anxieties of the present moment, while posing questions related to life 
values and purpose, identities and belonging, privacy and sociability.

Through her extensive investigation, Shireen Walton argues that ageing 
with smartphones in this contemporary urban Italian context is about 
living with ambiguity, change and contradiction, as well as developing 
curiosities about a changing world, our changing selves, and changing 
relationships with and to others. Ageing with smartphones is about 
figuring out how best to live together, differently.

Download free: https://bit.ly/3xTWZGT <https://bit.ly/3xTWZGT>

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