Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy, Care and community in Milan and beyond, Care and community in Milan and beyond
Author
Walton; Shireen
Year
2021
Publisher
UCL Press
Type
BOOK
Category
Aging
Language
English
Pages
208
ISBN
978-1-78735-972-7
Link
Last Update
10-Sep-2024
Keywords
Anthropology ; Communication Studies ; Sociology ; Cultural Studies
Description
An anthropological account of the experience of age and ageing in an inner-city neighborhood in Milan. This book is an anthropological account of the experience of age and ageing in an inner-city neighborhood in Milan, exploring the relationship between ageing and technology amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including the advent of mobile health, smart cities, and a number of wider socioeconomic and technological transformations. Through extensive urban and digital ethnographic research in Milan, Shireen Walton shows how the smartphone has become a "constant companion" in contemporary life, accompanying people throughout the day and through individual and collective experiences. The volume argues that ageing with smartphones in the contemporary urban Italian context is about living with ambiguity, change, and contradiction, as well as developing curiosities about a changing world, our changing selves, and changing relationships with others.
