Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology
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Volume 21, Issue 2
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Research Note
  • Sharing Virtual Meals Among the Elderly
    An ethnographic and quantitative study of the role of smartphones in distanced social eating in rural Japan
    Rise Sasaki, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Yumi Kimura
    2020 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 7-47
    Published: 2020
    Released on J-STAGE: September 08, 2021
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14890/jrca.21.2_7
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
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    This research note compiles data from ethnographic and quantitative research on smartphone use among elderly women aged 65 and over in rural Kşchi, Japan. Rise Sasaki, Laura Haapio-Kirk, and Yumi Kimura created an intervention in collaboration with the social welfare office in Tosa-chş, Kşchi. A group chat on the social media application LINE was created as a digital space for older adults to freely discuss food. Combining insights from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with data from questionnaires conducted before and after the intervention, together with thorough interviews, this research proposes an interventionist anthropological approach towards social nutrition that takes advantage of the recent rise in smartphone usage among elderly populations.

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