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Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, When life becomes craft, When life becomes craft

Author

Garvey; Pauline ; Miller; Daniel

Year

2021

Publisher

UCL Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Aging

Language

English

Pages

254

ISBN

978-1-78735-967-3

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10-Jan-2026

Keywords

Anthropology ; Communication Studies ; Sociology ; Cultural Studies

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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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