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E-book The Global Smartphone : Beyond a youth technology

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ato san from Japan is a 90-year-old master of flower arrangement (ike-bana). She is still practising and also teaches her traditional craft from her Kyoto home. In the three years since she obtained a smartphone, it has become central to her work and life. Sato san arranges her students’ lessons via the messaging application LINE, on which she has over 100 contacts. She likes the fact that LINE tells her if a message has been read, and she sometimes follows up emails with a LINE message informing a student that she has emailed them. The calendar on her smartphone tells her when she needs to replace flower displays in various shops around Kyoto. She also writes a blog about flower arranging and her exhibitions, through which many students findher.Outside of her work, Sato san’s smartphone makes everyday tasks, such as checking the weather or bus times, easier to do. She orders gro-ceries such as lunch boxes (bento), pickles and tofu from her local Seven Eleven store via LINE. They check her order by sending a picture of the products back to her. Describing herself as passionately curious about the world, Sato san uses her smartphone to maintain her mental health by doing brain training every day through dedicated apps; she also learns one new English word per day on a language app. Physical wellbeing is also important: Sato san checks her step-counter daily to see how many calories she has burned up. She sometimes researches why her legs have swollen up or looks up a healthy recipe that she has been told about. She has replaced her previous custom of phoning her niece to ask her about things she hears on the television with asking Google. Sato san admits to getting frustrated that most friends around her age, and even those who are younger, still have the more limited feature phones (garakei). They are not as curious about new technology as she is, even though she tries to encourage them. Her adoption of the smartphone reflects a lifelong attitude of being ahead of her peers in embracing thenew.Sato san has a student called Midori san, a woman in her mid-sixties who is a professional musician. In the short film featured below (Fig. 1.1), Midori san explains why she finally decided to get a smart-phone after hesitating for so long.

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Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

384.6 DAN t

Penerbit

London : UCL Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

323 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781787359611

Klasifikasi

384.6

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Telephone, Smartphone

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