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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at
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Digital repertoires: Embedded and everyday technologies in later life
London: UCL Press (2025), 202 pp.
"Digital Repertoires explores the intersection between ageing and technology, presenting the concept of 'digital repertoire' as a powerful tool for researchers across disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, gerontology, public policy, communication studies and design. This book offers new theor
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Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the Dotcom Age
London: UCL Press (2023), xvii, 215 pp.
"Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones and mobile phones on older people’s health and everyday lives as part of the global 'Anthropolog
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The Experience of Peruvian Migrants
London: UCL Press (2023), xiii, 193 pp.
"Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two coun
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
London: UCL Press (2023), xviii, 291 pp.
"Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We fin
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Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital
London: UCL Press (2023), xvii, 452 pp.
Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 526 pp.
"Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital as
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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’
London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.
"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A Work in Progress
London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 275 pp.
"With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil show
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The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
London: UCL Press (2021), xxiv; 295 pp.
"The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their r
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Le Smartphone Global: Au-delà d’une technologie destinée aux jeunes
London: UCL Press (2021), xxvii, 311 pp.
"[...] 11 anthropologues ont passé chacun 16 mois dans des communautés en Afrique, en Asie, en Europe et en Amérique du Sud pour analyser l’utilisation des smartphones par les personnes âgées. Leur recherche montre que les smartphones sont une technologie pour tous, qui n’est pas seulement
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El smartphone global: Más allá de una tecnología para jóvenes
London: UCL Press (2021), xxvii, 313 pp.
"El smartphone se ha convertido tanto en un lugar dentro del cual vivimos como en un aparato que usamos para tener “oportunismo perpetuo”, pues siempre está con nosotros. Los autores muestran cómo el smartphone es más un “aparato con aplicaciones” y exploran las diferencias entre lo que l
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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
London: UCL Press; University College London (2020), xiv, 229 pp.
"Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender iden
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Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization
London: UCL Press (2018), xi, 196 pp.
"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a soph
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Regulating Content on Social Media: Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features
London: UCL Press (2018), xi, 265 pp.
The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality: Understanding Social and Cultural Complexity
London: UCL Press (2018), 2 vols.
"The informal practices revealed in this book include emotion-driven exchanges (from gifts or favours to tribute for services), values-based practices of solidarity and belonging enacting multiple identities, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship
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Mídias sociais no Brasil emergente: Como a internet afeta a mobilidade social
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 291 pp.
"Juliano Spyer procura entender por que brasileiros de baixa renda investiram tanto tempo e dinheiro para incorporar o uso das mídias sociais a seu cotidiano. Explora essa questão por uma variedade de temas, incluindo educação, relacionamentos, trabalho e política e argumenta que o uso das míd
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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Social Media in Emergent Brazil: How the Internet Affects Social Change
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 240 pp.
"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics
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Social Media in South India
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xi, 240 pp.
"One of the first ethnographic studies to explore the use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, 'Social Media in South India' provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what wa
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