[Commlist] New book: Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Ageing with 
Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age by Charlotte 
Hawkins. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3RzseTU
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Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda
Togetherness in the dotcom age

Charlotte Hawkins. Free download: https://bit.ly/3RzseTU

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Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography 
about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse 
neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones 
and mobile phones on older people’s health and everyday lives as part of 
the global 'Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing' project.
In taking the lens of the smartphone to understand experiences of ageing 
in this context, the monograph presents the articulation and practice of 
‘togetherness in the dotcom age’. Taking a ‘convivial’ approach, which 
celebrates multiple ways of knowing about social life, Charlotte Hawkins 
draws from these expressions about cooperative morality and modernity to 
consider the everyday mitigation of profound social change. ‘Dotcom’ is 
understood to encompass everything from the influence of social media to 
urban migration and lifestyles in the city, to shifts in ways of knowing 
and relating. At the same time, dotcom tools such as mobile phones and 
smartphones facilitate elder care through, for example, regular mobile 
money remittances.
This book explores how dotcom relates to older people’s health, in 
particular their care norms, social standing, values of respect and 
relatedness, and intergenerational relationships – both political and 
personal. It also re-frames the youth-centricity of research on the city 
and work, new media and technology, politics and service provision in 
Uganda. Through ethnographic consideration of everyday life and 
self-formation in this context, the monograph seeks to contribute to an 
ever-incomplete understanding of how we relate to each other and to the 
world around us.

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