[Commlist] New book: Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a visual digital age

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 Japan:/ /Care in a visual digital age /by Laura Haapio-Kirk.
Download it free: https://ow.ly/yepW50T9sm8<https://ow.ly/yepW50T9sm8>__

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*/Ageing with Smartphones in Japan
Care in a visual digital age/**
*Haapio-Kirk
Free download: https://ow.ly/yepW50T9sm8<https://ow.ly/yepW50T9sm8>__

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Older adults in Japan, one of the most ageing countries in the world, 
are starting to adopt the smartphone. What does this mean for 
friendship, gendered labour, multigenerational living, internal 
migration, health and indeed purpose in life (/ikigai/)? Based on 16 
months of ethnographic research in urban Kyoto and in rural Kōchi 
Prefecture, /Ageing with Smartphones in Japan/ follows people as they 
navigate social and personal shifts post-retirement.

Examining how older women and men negotiate oppressive structures within 
society, the smartphone emerges as both challenging and perpetuating 
gender-based norms around care. In witnessing the response of older 
adults to the wider context of societal ageing and the various forms of 
precarity that it can engender, this book observes how people creatively 
navigate the challenges and opportunities of later life to define their 
own experience of ageing.

The rise of digital visual communication among people in their 50s and 
older opens new possibilities for sociality and proximity among friends 
and family. It also presents a methodological challenge for researchers. 
This book responds with a series of graphic methodological 
experimentations, including co-created comics, participant drawings, and 
the author’s own fieldwork sketches and imaginative illustrations, to 
explore this fundamental shift in communication towards digital images.

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