মোৰ কৌতূহলী মন [My curious mind]: Agency, design justice, and care motifs in older women’s experiences with smartphone and social media Priyanka Borpujari This thesis interrogates the experiences of older women in their use of smartphones and social media.The number of those aged above 60 in India is set to rise to 320 million by 2050. Even though there is now an emergence of active ageing in urban India, there is still a gap in the understanding of the lives of older women, and the ways in which they navigate their sense of agency and the online world. This dissertation argues that middle-class older women in India are creating and claiming space on the Internet and social media; spaces that were not designed for them. In doing so, they are expressing a sense of agency which is a fragile accomplishment negotiated in and with families, platforms, and institutions. Through the lens of feminist gerontology and the methodological approach of patchwork ethnography and intimate ethnography, this research with women from the state of Assam in India, probes the ways in which older women are making attempts at reclaiming their sense of agency over their lives: through, with, and despite, the smartphone. This dissertation contributes to the way we comprehend the empirical field: ethnographic drawings and teaching how to use tools are part of how the field is produced, through the moral grammar of sharing knowledge. Finally, given the growing population of older people globally, this dissertation reveals the wider implications on the way we may study ageing and technology, without treating empowerment as the only horizon. It does so by demonstrating and questioning the institutional demand of anonymity of research participants that contradicts participants’ own desires for recognition