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Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

Autor Michelle Janning
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2018
In today’s world of Tinder and texting, do we write and save love letters anymore? Are we more likely to save a screenshot of a text exchange or a box of paper letters from a lover? How might these different ways to store a love letter make us feel? Sociologist Michelle Janning’s Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age offers a new twist on the study of love letters: what people do with them and whether digital or paper format matters. Through stories, a rich review of past research, and her own survey findings, Janning uncovers whether and how people from different groups (including gender and age) approach their love letter "curatorial practices" in an era when digitization of communication is nearly ubiquitous. She investigates the importance of space and time, showing how our connection to the material world and our attraction to nostalgia matter in actions as seemingly small and private as saving, storing, stumbling upon, or even burning a love letter. Janning provides a framework for understanding why someone may prefer digital or paper love letters, and what that preference says about a person’s access and attachment to powerful cultural values such as individualization, taking time in a hectic world, longevity, privacy, and keeping cherished things in a safe place. Ultimately, Janning contends, the cultural values that tell us how romantic love should be defined are more powerful than the format our love letters take.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138055261
ISBN-10: 1138055263
Pagini: 122
Ilustrații: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

1: The Stuff of Love: The Historical and Cultural Significance of (Saving) Love Letters; 2: The Digitization of Love: Technology and Communication Within Romantic Relationships; 3: Space Matters: Where and How Love Letters are "Curated"; 4: Time Matters: Nostalgia, Preserving Love Letters, and the Social Construction of Time and Memory; 5: Love Letters as Both Individual and Collective: The Public Significance of Private Communications; Methodological Appendix

Descriere

In today’s world of Tinder and texting, do we write and save love letters anymore? Are we more likely to save a screen shot of a text exchange or a box of paper letters from a lover? How might these different ways to store a love letter make us feel? Sociologist Michelle Janning’s Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age offers a new twist on the study of love letters: what people do with them and whether digital or paper format matters. Through stories, a rich review of past research, and her own survey findings, Janning uncovers whether and how people from different groups (including gender and age) approach their love letter "curatorial practices" in an era when digitization of communication is nearly ubiquitous. She investigates the importance of space and time, showing how our connection to the material world and our attraction to nostalgia matter in actions as seemingly small and private as saving, storing, stumbling upon, or even burning a love letter. Janning provides a framework for understanding why someone may prefer digital or paper love letters, and what that preference says about a person’s access and attachment to powerful cultural values such as individualization, taking time in a hectic world, longevity, privacy, and keeping cherished things in a safe place. Ultimately, Janning contends, the cultural values that tell us how romantic love should be defined are more powerful than the format our love letters take. Her work fits within larger academic questions about the sociology of emotions, how culture works, the importance of objects in social relations, and the significance of privilege in everyday life.