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On the role smartphones play in the lives of the aging in contemporary Ireland.This volume documents a radical change in the experience of aging. Based on two ethnographies in Dublin, Ireland, the book illustrates how smartphones enable old people to focus on crafting a new life in retirement. For some, the smartphone is an intimidating burden linked to being on the wrong side of a new digital divide. But for most, however, it has become integral to a new trajectory towards a more sustainable life, both for themselves and their environment. The smartphone has reunited extended family and old friends, helped resolve intergenerational conflicts though new forms of grandparenting, and has become a health resource. This is a book about acknowledging late middle age in contemporary Ireland and examines how older people in Ireland experience life today.
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Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, Pauline Garvey
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- 2021
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- Titel
- Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Pauline Garvey
- Verlag
- UCL Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1787359670
- ISBN13
- 9781787359673
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- On the role smartphones play in the lives of the aging in contemporary Ireland.This volume documents a radical change in the experience of aging. Based on two ethnographies in Dublin, Ireland, the book illustrates how smartphones enable old people to focus on crafting a new life in retirement. For some, the smartphone is an intimidating burden linked to being on the wrong side of a new digital divide. But for most, however, it has become integral to a new trajectory towards a more sustainable life, both for themselves and their environment. The smartphone has reunited extended family and old friends, helped resolve intergenerational conflicts though new forms of grandparenting, and has become a health resource. This is a book about acknowledging late middle age in contemporary Ireland and examines how older people in Ireland experience life today.