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• Illustrating ASSA’s findings with comics – part 5
  By Georgiana Murariu and Laura Haapio-Kirk In this blog post, we present the fifth comic in our ASSA comics series, set in rural Ireland. The comic below highlights the concept of ‘perpetual opportunism’, which is one of the discoveries of our project, showing how smartphones can facilitate a profound reorientation to the world around us. […]
• Illustrating ASSA’s findings with comics – part 4
  By Georgiana Murariu and Laura Haapio-Kirk In this blog post, we present the fourth comic in our ASSA comics series, this time set in Kyoto, one of Laura Haapio-Kirk’s fieldsites. Laura undertook fieldwork here for 16 months on the intersection of ageing and smartphone use and a significant part of her research focused on the […]