Publications – Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing

Read articles, posts, and other publications written by members of the ASSA team.

ASSA Monographs

The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology

By Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When life becomes craft

By Pauline Garvey & Daniel Miller

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A work in progress

By Marília Duque

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and beyond

By Shireen Walton

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Smart Ageing a Milano (E Altrove): Soggettività e socialità nei contesti digitali urbani italiani

Italian translation of ‘Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy’

By Shireen Walton

Ledzioni (Open Access)

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Learning From Whatsapp: Best Practice for Health

By Marília Duque

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Translations of ‘The Global Smartphone’ (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian)

By Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Japanese Translation of ‘The Global Smartphone’

By Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

UCL Press (Open Access)

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الهاتف الذكي العالمي ما وراء تكنولوجيا الشباب

Arabic Translation of ‘The Global Smartphone’

By Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

UCL Press (Open Access)

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A Chinese translation of ‘The Global Smartphone’

By Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

UCL Press (Open Access)

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Academic publications

Grandparenting as the resolution of kinship as experience

By Daniel Miller and Pauline Garvey

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Open Access)

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Qualitative study of mental health attribution, perceptions and care-seeking in Kampala, UgandaLearning From Whatsapp: Best Practice for Health

By John M. Bwanika, Charlotte Hawkins, Louis Kamulegeya, Patricia Onyutta, Davis Musinguzi, Audrey Kusasira, Elizabeth K. Musoke, Jascintha Kabeega

South African Journal of Psychiatry

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Aging with smartphones

By Daniel Miller

Diálogo (Open Access)

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Performing healthy ageing through images

By Marília Duque

Global Media and China journal (Open Access)

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Brexit and the decolonization of Ireland

By Daniel Miller

HAU journal (Open Access)

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Staying Connected: Coronavirus in Japan

By Laura-Haapio-Kirk

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A Theory of a Theory of a Smartphone

By Daniel Miller

International Journal of Cultural Studies (Open Access)

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Gender in Digital Technologies and Cultures

By Laura Haapio-Kirk and Jennifer Coates

Routeledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Studies

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Ageing with Smartphones ‘From Below’: Insights from Japan, Uganda, Al-Quds and Ireland

By Maya de Vries Kedem, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins and Daniel Miller

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (Open Access)

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Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan

By Xinyuan Wang and Laura Haapio-Kirk

Global Media and China

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Making Friends with Ethnographic Monographs

By Daniel Miller

Anthropology Now (Open Accesss)

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Introduction: Smartphone-based visual normativity: Approaches from digital anthropology and communication studies

By Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang

Global Media and China

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The Accidental “Age-Friendly City”: Public Expectation and Subjective Experience in São Paulo

Marilia Duque and Adriana Lima de Oliveira

Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (Open Access)

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להזדקן עם הטלפון החכם: ‘קישוריות רבת-פנים’ בקרב נשים פלסטיניות מבוגרות בירושלים המזרחית

By Maya de Vries and Laila Abed Rabho

Gerontology and Geriatrics (Journal of the Israel Gerontological Society)

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News, blogs and podcasts

Shireen Walton discusses her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy

Interview with Shireen Walton

CaMP Anthropology

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These tools help older people connect digitally while isolating

By Daniel Miller

The Conversation

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What do smartphones teach us about ageing in Ireland?

By Pauline Garvey

RTÉ Brainstorm

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Smartphones: the cultural, individual and technical processes that make them smart

By Daniel Miller

The Conversation

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【英語原文】Living with nature in rural Kōchi.

By Laura-Haapio-Kirk

Tosacho Zine

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60 החדש / The New 60 (Hebrew)

Interview with Laila Abed Rabho

Israel Public Radio

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Life online: The new authentic?

By Xinyuan Wang

The British Science Association blog

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What makes smartphones so smart?

By Daniel Miller

The Independent

‘Passeio completo’: idosos usam smartphones para compras, falar com médicos e para paquerar (Portuguese)

Interview with Marília Duque

50 Mais CBN

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How People Actually Use Their Smartphones

By Laura Haapio-Kirk and Georgiana Murariu

Sapiens

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The Smartphone

Interview with Daniel Miller

BBC Radio 4

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Smartphones and contact-tracing: balancing care and surveillance

By Daniel Miller

The Conversation

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Smart Phones & Ageing

Interview with Pauline Garvey

Newstalk podcast

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Life in the Age of Social Media and Smartphones with Daniel Miller and Georgiana Murariu

Interview with Daniel Miller and Georgiana Murariu

This Anthro Life

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A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Daniel Miller about the on-lifeSmartphones and contact-tracing: balancing care and surveillance

Interview with Daniel Miller

European Science-Media Hub

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Smartphones in the era of COVID-19

By Daniel Miller

The British Academy blog

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How can anthropological research impact the populations it studies?

By Daniel Miller

LSE Impact blog

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Hundreds of Chinese citizens told me what they thought about the controversial social credit system

By Xinyuan Wang

The Conversation

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Os smartphones, a Saude e o envelhecimento com Marilia Duque (Portuguese)

Interview with Marília Duque

Impulso Positivo’s Podcast

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Smart eles já são. O mercado é que ainda não percebeu! (Portuguese)

By Marília Duque

Revista da ESPM

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ENTREVISTA: MARÍLIA DUQUE (Portuguese)

Interview with Marília Duque

CIDADÃO E REPÓRTER

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Blog

Reducing Hypertension in Trinidad and Tobago
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 […]
ASSA Studies in Retirment
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 […]

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