Publications

Read articles, posts, and other publications written by members of the ASSA team.

ASSA Monographs

The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology (UCL Press; Open Access) - Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When life becomes craft (UCL Press; Open Access) - Pauline Garvey & Daniel Miller

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A work in progress (UCL Press; Open Access) - Marília Duque

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy: Care and community in Milan and beyond (UCL Press; Open Access) - Shireen Walton

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The experience of Peruvian migrants (UCL Press; Open Access) - Alfonso Otaegui

Ageing with Smartphones in Japan: Care in a visual digital age (UCL Press; Open Access) - Laura Haapio-Kirk

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai (UCL Press; Open Access) - Xinyuan Wang 

Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age (UCL Press; Open Access) - Charlotte Hawkins

An Anthropological Approach to mHealth (UCL Press; Open Access) - Charlotte Hawkins (Editor), Patrick Awondo (Editor), Daniel Miller (Editor)

Learning From Whatsapp: Best Practice for Health (UCL Press; Open Access) - Marília Duque

The Good Enough Life (Polity Press) - Daniel Miller

Translations

Smart Ageing a Milano (E Altrove): Soggettività e socialità nei contesti digitali urbani italiani - Italian translation of ‘Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy’ (Ledzioni; Open Access) - Shireen Walton

Translations of ‘The Global Smartphone’ in Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (UCL Press; Open Access) - Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

グローバル・スマートフォン - Japanese Translation of ‘The Global Smartphone’ (UCL Press; Open Access) - Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

الهاتف الذكي العالمي ما وراء تكنولوجيا الشباب - Arabic Translation of ‘The Global Smartphone’ (UCL Press; Open Access) - Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

全球智能手机 超越青年科技 - A Chinese translation of ‘The Global Smartphone’ (UCL Press; Open Access) - Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang

Academic Publications

• Grandparenting as the resolution of kinship as experience (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Open Access) - Daniel Miller and Pauline Garvey
• Qualitative study of mental health attribution, perceptions and care-seeking in Kampala, UgandaLearning From Whatsapp: Best Practice for Health (South African Journal of Psychiatry) -  John M. Bwanika, Charlotte Hawkins, Louis Kamulegeya, Patricia Onyutta, Davis Musinguzi, Audrey Kusasira, Elizabeth K. Musoke, Jascintha Kabeega
• Performing healthy ageing through images (Global Media and China journal; Open Access) - Marília Duque
• Brexit and the decolonization of Ireland (HAU journal; Open Access) - Daniel Miller
• Staying Connected: Coronavirus in Japan (Entanglements Journal) - Laura-Haapio-Kirk
• A Theory of a Theory of a Smartphone International Journal of Cultural Studies (Open Access) - Daniel Miller
• Gender in Digital Technologies and Cultures (Routeledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Studies) - Laura Haapio-Kirk and Jennifer Coates
• Ageing with Smartphones ‘From Below’: Insights from Japan, Uganda, Al-Quds and Ireland (AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research; Open Access) - Maya de Vries Kedem, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins and Daniel Miller
• Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan (Global Media and China) - Xinyuan Wang and Laura Haapio-Kirk
• Making Friends with Ethnographic Monographs (Anthropology Now; Open Access) - Daniel Miller
• Introduction: Smartphone-based visual normativity: Approaches from digital anthropology and communication studies (Global Media and China) - Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang
• The Accidental “Age-Friendly City”: Public Expectation and Subjective Experience in São Paulo (Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies; Open Access) - Marilia Duque and Adriana Lima de Oliveira
• להזדקן עם הטלפון החכם: ‘קישוריות רבת-פנים’ בקרב נשים פלסטיניות מבוגרות בירושלים המזרחית
• (Gerontology and Geriatrics (Journal of the Israel Gerontological Society) - Maya de Vries and Laila Abed Rabho

News, blogs and podcasts

• Shireen Walton discusses her book, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy - CaMP Anthropology
• These tools help older people connect digitally while isolating, by Daniel Miller - The Conversation
• What do smartphones teach us about ageing in Ireland?, by Pauline Garvey - RTÉ Brainstorm
• Smartphones: the cultural, individual and technical processes that make them smart, by Daniel Miller - The Conversation
• 【英語原文】Living with nature in rural Kōchi, by Laura-Haapio-Kirk - Tosacho Zine 
• 60 החדש / The New 60 (Hebrew), Interview with Laila Abed Rabho - Israel Public Radio
• Life online: The new authentic?, By Xinyuan Wang - The British Science Association blog
• What makes smartphones so smart?, by Daniel Miller - The Independent
• ‘Passeio completo’: idosos usam smartphones para compras, falar com médicos e para paquerar (Portuguese), Interview with Marília Duque - 50 Mais CBN
• How People Actually Use Their Smartphones, By Laura Haapio-Kirk and Georgiana Murariu - Sapiens
• The Smartphone, Interview with Daniel Miller - BBC Radio 4
• Smartphones and contact-tracing: balancing care and surveillance, By Daniel Miller - The Conversation
• Smart Phones & Ageing, Interview with Pauline Garvey - Newstalk podcast
• Life in the Age of Social Media and Smartphones with Daniel Miller and Georgiana Murariu, Interview with Daniel Miller and Georgiana Murariu -This Anthro Life
• A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Daniel Miller about the on-lifeSmartphones and contact-tracing: balancing care and surveillance, Interview with Daniel Miller - European Science-Media Hub
• Smartphones in the era of COVID-19, By Daniel Miller - The British Academy blog
• How can anthropological research impact the populations it studies?, By Daniel Miller - LSE Impact blog
• Hundreds of Chinese citizens told me what they thought about the controversial social credit system, By Xinyuan Wang - The Conversation
• Os smartphones, a Saude e o envelhecimento com Marilia Duque (Portuguese), Interview with Marília Duque - Impulso Positivo’s Podcast
• Smart eles já são. O mercado é que ainda não percebeu! (Portuguese), By Marília Duque - Revista da ESPM
• ENTREVISTA: MARÍLIA DUQUE (Portuguese), Interview with Marília Duque - CIDADÃO E REPÓRTER