UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
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This five-year project at UCL Anthropology employs a team of ten anthropologists who work on a collaborative & comparative project based on simultaneous 16-month ethnographies. This project investigates fundamental changes in people's relationship to age & health associated with the global rise of the smartphone. We will examine the impact on this ambivalence of smartphones and previously..
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
1y ago
Author: Daniel Miller The research project Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing which is now close to completion was always intended to also develop some practical projects to improve the welfare of the populations where we carried out our research. Many of the deaths that resulted from Covid in Trinidad and Tobago came through co-morbidities ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
1y ago
Author: Daniel Miller In June we held a very successful workshop with invited guest academics to discuss our contribution to comparative studies of ageing. Based on the very helpful comments we received we plan to submit a set of papers to the journal Anthropology and Aging. The next set of ASSA presentations will take place ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
1y ago
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) in this blog I reflect back on some of the ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
Author: Charlotte Hawkins On 8th June, the ASSA team will host a workshop to bring together different anthropologists of ageing. This will include discussion of comparative papers from each of the team members. My paper, written alongside ASSA researcher Laura Haapio-Kirk, offers a comparative perspective of ageing and how it is defined around the world ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
Author: Sheba Mohammid In Trinidad and Tobago, we may not have Ponce De Leon’s fountain of youth, but we do have a pool. It’s technically an offshore sandbar, but we’ll save that ecology lesson à la David Attenborough for another time. In local folklore, taking a dip in our Nylon pool, can take 10 years ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk During my research in Japan, I became increasingly aware of the importance of visual communication, for example stickers and emoji, for how many of my research participants were using their smartphones. As a result I decided to experiment with collaborative graphic methods that combined both analogue and digital media, to explore a ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form Douyin). Because TikTok captures something that is central to the ethos of anthropology as a discipline. Currently the ASSA project is developing an approach called Smart-From-Below. The ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
Author: Charlotte Hawkins As part of the ASSA project, we are currently working to publish a volume called: ‘An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the Smartphone Age’. This volume consolidates insights from the team’s various anthropological initiatives in mobile health or ‘m-health’ – health-related uses of the phone – in diverse settings around ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
Author: Xinyuan Wang The recently released seventh national census in China shows that today’s China not only has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world (on average Chinese women are expected to have 1.3 children each throughout their lives, compared to the UK where in 2020 it was 1.58), but also is facing ..read more
UCL | Anthropology of Smartphones & Smart Ageing Blog
2y ago
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-morbidity with diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Diabetes ..read more