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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

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28-Nov-2025

Keywords

Anthropology ; Communication Studies ; Sociology ; Cultural Studies

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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.

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