[Commlist] New open access book: The Global Smartphone

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open 
access books that are likely to be of interest to list subscribers: The 
Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology by Daniel Miller et al. 
Free download: https://bit.ly/3tisNBE

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The Global Smartphone
Beyond a youth technology

Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília 
Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso 
Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

Free download: https://bit.ly/3tisNBE

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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.

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