Laura Haapio-Kirk. Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a Visual Digital Age UCL Press, London, 2024, 311 pp., pbk £30, ISBN: 9781787355774

Melody Wang

doi:10.1017/S0144686X2510010X

Laura Haapio-Kirk. Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a Visual Digital Age UCL Press, London, 2024, 311 pp., pbk £30, ISBN: 9781787355774

Melody Wang

School of Engineering

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Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a Visual Digital Age by Laura Haapio-Kirk is an ethnographic monograph within a book series based on the ASSA (Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing) project. The project consists of ethnographies conducted simultaneously in 9 countries over 16 months, offering a comparative analysis of how smartphones impact the experience of mid-life worldwide and their implications for mobile health.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2164 - 2165
Journal	Ageing & Society
Volume	45
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2510010X
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2025

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book review
ageing
care
visual communication

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Laura Haapio-Kirk. Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a Visual Digital Age UCL Press, London, 2024, 311 pp., pbk £30, ISBN: 9781787355774

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