THINGS WE ARE STORING.PAPER, MAIL, NOSTALGIA Cover Image

ВЕЩИ, КОТОРЫЕ МЫ ХРАНИМ: БУМАГА, ПОЧТА, НОСТАЛЬГИЯ
THINGS WE ARE STORING.PAPER, MAIL, NOSTALGIA

Author(s): Olga Shaburova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Photography, Individual Psychology, Social development, Social Theory, Social Informatics
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: Paper; post; commercialization of nostalgia; soviet postcard; post crossing;

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the phenomenon "the death of paper" caused by the digital technological revolution. In this article the post and it's representations become an example for analysis of the past and future of the mass communications with its' paper postal artifacts. The main material of analysis - the soviet postcard. This analysis gives opportunity to develop the issue of commercialization of nostalgia. The last part of the article analyses the phenomenon of post crossing that embodies the model of modern social horizontal mobility and that combines digit and paper.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 26-38
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian