Hawkins, Charlotte;
(2023)
Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age.
[Book].
Ageing with Smartphones.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age |
| ISBN: | 9781800085138 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085138 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800085138 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085138 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Nonderivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Hawkins, C. 2023. Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.978180 0085 138 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | smartphones, technology, ageing, Uganda, Africa, urban studies, anthropology, ethnography, SOCIOLOGY, MEDIA STUDIES |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176748 |
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