[Air-L] INVITATION TO PROJECT LAUNCH (ASSA), Daniel Miller

[Daniel Miller]

*INVITATION TO PROJECT LAUNCH*

You are welcome to attend the formal launch of the Anthropology of
Smartphones and Smart Ageing results, at a free virtual event 14.00 London
time, on Thursday 26th May. Tickets are available here:-
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropology-of-smartphones-and-smart-ageing-launch-of-free-books-course-tickets-152835104913

This event marks the publication of the books *The Global Smartphone,
Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, and Ageing with Smartphones in Urban
Italy*. As well as the first round of the Anthropology of Smartphones MOOC
on the FutureLearn platform.

At the launch, you can meet the full team ask them questions and consider
contacting them for a fuller discussion about their work. Each of the team
has carried out 16 months ethnography which will be the subject of a
monograph. As well as research on the use and consequences of smartphones
and the changing experience of ageing, most of us are involved in various
health projects concerned with the use of smartphones for health. The team
are as follows:-

Laila Abed Rabho is a Palestinian researcher at the Harry S Truman
Institute for the advancement of peace. She worked with Maya researching
the Palestinian community of al-Quds.

Patrick Awondo Is a lecturer at the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon. He
is the author of *Le Sex et ses Doubles* about LGBT people fleeing
homophobia in West Africa. His fieldwork was in a district of Yaoundé,
Cameroon.

Maya de Vries teaches courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She
worked with Laila researching the Palestinian community of al-Quds.

Marilia Duque is a researcher at ESPM, Sao Paulo and author of *Learning
from Whatsapp. Best practices for health*. Her fieldsite was a district in
Sao Paulo.

Pauline Garvey is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Maynooth
University Ireland. Her fieldsite was in Dublin, Ireland

Laura Haapio-Kirk is a PhD student at University College London. Her
fieldsites were in Kyoto and a rural area of Japan.

Charlotte Hawkins is a PhD student at University College London. Her
fieldsite was with a community in Kampala, Uganda.

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.
His fieldsite was in the region of Dublin, Ireland.

Alfonso Otaegui is a lecturer in Anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic
University of Chile. An Argentinian, he studied Peruvian migrants in
Santiago Chile and older Chileans learning to use smartphones.

Shireen Walton is a lecturer at Goldsmith College London. Her research was
with migrants in Milan, Italy.

Xinyuan Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at University College London. Her
fieldsite was a middle-class community in Shanghai, China.

(The correct URL for the project trailer is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roZ70N2gEI )