Ageing with Smartphones in Japan - by Laura Haapio-Kirk (Paperback)

Name: Ageing with Smartphones in Japan - by Laura Haapio-Kirk (Paperback)
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How smartphones are shifting the daily lives of older adults post-retirement in Kyoto and Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
About the Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk is a junior research fellow in anthropology at Christ Church, University of Oxford.
308 Pages
Social Science, Anthropology
Series Name: Ageing with Smartphones

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How smartphones are shifting the daily lives of older adults post-retirement in Kyoto and Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

Ageing with Smartphones in Japan examines sixteen months of ethnographic research following older adults, age fifty and up, in urban Kyoto and rural Kochi Prefecture, Japan as they navigate social and personal shifts post-retirement in the age of the smartphone. It attempts to answer what this transition means for friendship, gendered labor, multigenerational living, internal migration, health, as well as life purpose for older adults. This book closely investigates how the smartphone challenges gender-based norms and how older adults creatively navigate them. Using comics, drawings, and fieldwork sketches it also explores how they use digital visual communication to socialize with friends and family.

About the Author

Laura Haapio-Kirk is a junior research fellow in anthropology at Christ Church, University of Oxford.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.37 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x 1.26 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.35 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 308

Genre: Social Science

Sub-Genre: Anthropology

Series Title: Ageing with Smartphones

Publisher: UCL Press

Theme: Cultural & Social

Format: Paperback

Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk

Language: English

Street Date: March 22, 2025

TCIN: 1006749148

UPC: 9781787355774

Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-6475

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 1.35 pounds

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