Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When life becomes craft Contributor(s): Garvey, Pauline (Author), Miller, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1787359670 ISBN-13: 9781787359673 Publisher: UCL Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 254 pages |
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Publisher Description: On the role smartphones play in the lives of the aging in contemporary Ireland. This volume documents a radical change in the experience of aging. Based on two ethnographies in Dublin, Ireland, the book illustrates how smartphones enable old people to focus on crafting a new life in retirement. For some, the smartphone is an intimidating burden linked to being on the wrong side of a new digital divide. But for most, however, it has become integral to a new trajectory towards a more sustainable life, both for themselves and their environment. The smartphone has reunited extended family and old friends, helped resolve intergenerational conflicts though new forms of grandparenting, and has become a health resource. This is a book about acknowledging late middle age in contemporary Ireland and examines how older people in Ireland experience life today. |