Abstract
The nostalgic consumption of images, which only a few years ago was practised mainly by adults, has lately become prevalent among Israeli teenage girls. Girls often describe themselves as 'nostalgic' and nostalgia has become a desired emotion. Unlike the nostalgia of former generations, this nostalgia is cumulative and not necessarily based on a strong dichotomous contrast between past and present. The transformation of nostalgia is closely related to developments in technology (the camera-phone and the internet) and in the possession-patterns of devices. Personal mobile phones are used by teenagers for production, archiving and consumption of documentary images on a daily basis. These images, not unrelated to those of mass media, are consumed by teenagers in order to evoke nostalgia and other emotions, as a technology of self. This trend also contributes to blur the ontic distinction between events and their representations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 348-376 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Journal of Consumer Culture |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Blogs
- Camera-phones
- Consumption
- Databasification
- Egodocuments
- Emotionology
- Emotions
- Nostalgia
- Photography
- Technology of self
- Youths