Pyne Lydia Pyne

Postcards (eBook, ePUB)

The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections-links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789144857
• Artikelnr.: 72426329

Autorenporträt

Lydia Pyne is an affiliate researcher in the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her previous books include Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Can Teach Us About Real Stuff.