Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing

06/07/2022

Our FREE course 'An Anthropology of Smartphones: Communication, Ageing and Health' is an opportunity to explore the relationship between technology & ageing based on research
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Ever wondered how smartphones are influencing our lives? Find out with UCL’s brand new course exploring the impact of smartphones through an anthropological lens.

06/07/2022

In this blog, ASSA researcher Shireen Walton reflects back on some of the core aspects of her research and how these might provide food for thought on urban-digital neighbourhood living, particularly in times of crisis and emergency.

Author: Shireen Walton Upon the recent publication of the Italian translation of my monograph Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and Community in Milan and Beyond (published with Ledizioni as Smart Ageing a Milano (e altrove): Soggettivà e socialità nei contesti digitali urbani italiani)...

03/03/2022

At ASSA we're learning from the way people creatively use their smartphones for health, as opposed to traditional top-down approaches.

In our new blog ASSA researcher Charlotte Hawkins introduces our new volumne on our anthropological contributions to mHealth.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6n45f5

23/02/2022

📢It's week 2 of our FREE online course📢

This week we're looking at the recent shift in the experience of ageing across different regions and how smartphones impact the process of ageing.

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22/02/2022

Smartphones have become ubiquitous—but do we really know how people around the world are using these devices? A team of anthropologists collaborated with a comics artist to share their findings.

16/02/2022

Our FREE FutureLearn online course 'An Anthropology of Smartphones: Communication, Ageing and Health' starts this week.

Kicking off with... What are smartphones? and How have they changed our lives?

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14/02/2022

In our most recent blog ASSA researcher Xinyuan Wang introduces us to one of her key research participants Fangfang and her four-generation family to explain the implications of the ‘new sandwich generation’ in urban China.

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/assa/2022/02/14/the-new-sandwich-generation-in-urban-china/

09/02/2022

Our FREE 3 week FutureLearn course goes live on Monday 14 Feb!

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📱Mobile phoneExplores how smartphones have changed our lives
📱Mobile phoneExamines how they can be used productively
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02/02/2022

🌟Our research found across our 11 fieldsites people do not define themselves as elderly or young.

✈️Part 6 of our comic series illustrates how in Shanghai, China people are instead 'growing young'.

19/01/2022

"Research based simply on asking people for their reasons for not taking the Covid vaccination, or worse still projecting upon them one’s assumptions, are not likely to be helpful"

📰 Catch up on the latest ASSA blog by Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller on understanding covid vaccine resistance in Trinidad.

https://bit.ly/3fC9eQb

Authors: Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller Right now, Trinidad and Tobago are suffering amongst the highest death rate from Covid in the world. As small islands, everyone seems to know people who have died. According to a Trinidadian doctor specialising in this field one reason for this is co-morbidi...

31/12/2021

Happy new year from the ASSA team! It has been a challenging year, but we are so delighted to have been able to start sharing the results of our research with you this year. Here's a quick round-up: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/assa/2021/12/31/2021-round-up-and-happy-new-year/

21/12/2021

New blog post: Trinidad – The Potential of 'Online Only' Ethnography

"The online ethnography has focused upon building relationships, as is aspires to in traditional ethnography, and from this foundation trying to attain greater insight into the practices of participants and the wider ecosystem of social connections in which these are situated. Besides some in-depth formal interviews with participants, Sheba regularly spent time cultivating a better understanding and appreciation of their everyday lives."

Read about the ethnography currently underway in Trinidad, the final fieldsite in the ASSA project: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/assa/2021/12/21/trinidad-the-potential-of-online-only-ethnography/