[Commlist] New open access book: Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland (UCL Press)

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: 
Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When life becomes craft by Pauline 
Garvey and Daniel Miller. Free download: https://bit.ly/33dQbpb

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Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland
When life becomes craft
Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller

Free download: https://bit.ly/33dQbpb
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There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen 
very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical 
change in the experience of ageing.

Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the 
Dublin region, the book shows that people, rather than seeing themselves 
as old, focus on crafting a new life in retirement. Our research 
participants apply new ideals of sustainability both to themselves and 
to their environment. They go for long walks, play bridge, do yoga and 
keep as healthy as possible. As part of Ireland’s mainstream middle 
class, they may have more time than the young to embrace green ideals 
and more money to move to energy-efficient homes, throw out household 
detritus and protect their environment.

The smartphone has become integral to this new trajectory. For some it 
is an intimidating burden linked to being on the wrong side of a new 
digital divide. But for most, however, it has brought back the extended 
family and old friends, and helped resolve intergenerational conflicts 
though facilitating new forms of grandparenting. It has also become 
central to health issues, whether by Googling information or looking 
after frail parents. The smartphone enables this sense of getting 
younger as people download the music of their youth and develop new 
interests.

This is a book about acknowledging late middle age in contemporary 
Ireland. How do older people in Ireland experience life today?

Free download: https://bit.ly/33dQbpb

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