You are then, this is now: nostalgia, technology and consumer identity at CES 2007.
As the 40th anniversary of the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2007 provides ample evidence of the contradictory impulses of nostalgic longing and technological advancement. As an application of the swarm methodology, this essay examines the use of nostalgia as a means of positioning new technologies...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 537 - 556 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2009
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