Good Young Nostalgia

Camera phones and technologies of self among Israeli youths

Bibliographic Data

ID12698461
AuthorsOri Schwarz (0000-0002-3477-4878, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume9
Issue3
Pages348-376
Publication date2009-10-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Consumer Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1469-5405 • E-ISSN: 1741-2900
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1469540509342045
OpenAlexW2119168503
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited41

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

Aesthetics · Art · Business · Conspicuous consumption · Consumption (sociology · Mobile phone · Possession (linguistics · Sociology · The Internet · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology

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