Writing Edwardian postcards

Gillen, Julia

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“…32 It was ubiquitous, and can be compared to Twitter in terms of both its impact and function. 33 However, whilst we now have a clear sense that the postcard is a quick, no fuss medium for holiday communication, this was not its function for much of the craze. Introduced during the 1870s, it was intended primarily for business rather than personal use.…”

Section: Stoicism and Sentimentmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…People wishing to maintain contact with absent friends and family also now had the alternative of what Julia Gillen has described as a "new epistolary space" instead of the traditional letter, and one that placed fewer demands on their literary prowess. 30 In 1898 the New Zealand government had followed a growing international trend, soon to be dubbed the "postcard craze," and allowed the sending of privately printed pictorial postcards. 31 Figure 1: This New Zealand Government issued card was printed in England by Waterlow and Sons, and was intended to promote the country as a tourist destination.…”

Section: Stoicism and Sentimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Stoic and Sentimental: The Emotional Work of the Edwardian Greetings Postcard

Gilderdale¹

2016

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For both Edwardian migrants and First World War soldiers, communicating home involved a choice as to the appropriate emotional regimes to use. Should they display stoic reserve, or communicate sentimental feeling? Research on correspondence has normally focused on letters, but this paper examines how emotion was dealt with through the multimodal medium of the greetings postcard. It argues that whilst handwritten texts on postcards remained primarily stoic, the pre-packaged visual vocabulary on greetings postcards allowed users to send strongly emotional arguments for the maintenance of their relationships without ever having to put these into their own words. Postcards, it seems, gave the Edwardians the option of being both stoic and sentimental.

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Section: Stoicism and Sentimentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Stoicism and Sentimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stoic and Sentimental: The Emotional Work of the Edwardian Greetings Postcard

Gilderdale¹

2016

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“…This interplay between printed words and images, handwritten messages, stamps, and the overall context of postcard use as personal communiqués, items shared among collectors, or virtual artifacts (Gillen 2013; Gillen and Hall 2011; Hall and Gillen 2007; Östman 2004) encompasses the rich multifaceted and multimodal dimensions of postcards that this essay expands upon. There have been a few experimental engagements with postcards as research method (Adjin‐Tettey et al.…”

Section: Origin Of and Research On Postcardsmentioning

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Multimodal Ethnography in/of/as Postcards

Gugganig¹,

Schor

2020

American Anthropologist

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In March 1976, Steward Brand interviewed Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson at Bateson's home near Santa Cruz, California. Brand, best known as one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, is a nodal figure in the countercultural and cybercultural milieus of personal and networked computing that gave rise through the internet to new imaginaries and practices of mediated communication that have since proliferated in everyday life across much of the globe (Castells 1996(Castells , 2001Turner 2008). Brand had been "wowed … out of [his] shoes" (Bateson and Mead 1976, 33) by Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and opened the interview asking about the Macy conferences on cybernetics. He recorded the conversation and published the transcript in The CoEvolution Quarterly (Bateson and Mead 1976). Cybernetics was the topic that made the conversation of two septuagenarian anthropologists relevant to Brand's readers.In 1977, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication published a three-page excerpt (from the much longer transcript that Brand had published) as "Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson on the Use of the Camera in Anthropology" (Mead and Bateson 1977). In this excerpt, Mead (then age seventy-five) and Bateson (then seventy-two) discuss their use of still and motion photography in Bali, where they worked as newlyweds from 1936 to 1939. This dialogue quickly became a classic in visual anthropology (then formalizing as a subdiscipline), appealing for the endearing way the formerly married anthropologists argue. Its power as a mythic text, however, lies in the binary of science versus art, a polarity that recurs with fractal regularity in the history of the field and that Mead and Bateson came to personify to later generations of visual anthropologists. While Mead doggedly advocates for the scientific potential of the camera, the use of tripods, and long takes, Bateson cantankerously refuses such limitations, insisting that the camera should be "off the tripod" and "the photographic record should be an art form" (Bateson and Mead 1976, 19).In 2015, my colleague Christian Hammons and I turned to the published transcripts of this Mead-Bateson conversation as the basis for a performance documentary. Our thought was to build out from this text to explore the documentary possibilities of performance and the performative

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“…Concerning the writing practices at school, four studies reflect on one type of writing, that is, creative writing, as a traditional school-based literacy practice. In that sense, Gillen (2013) deals with the benefits of writing postcards to consolidate literacy processes. Wiseman (2011) and Wissman (2009) focus on poetry workshops, while Kinloch (2009) examines undergraduate writing students' investigations of literacy practices and acts of meaning making.…”

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Estudios científicos sobre alfabetización y alfabetización digital indexados en Scopus: revisión bibliográfica (2000-2013)

Sastre

Morancho

2016

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This article is a literature review of scientific studies published on literacy and digital literacy from 2000 to 2013. The aim is to provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of these studies based on the data obtained from the Scopus citation database. The data analyzed are: the evolution of the number of scientific studies on literacy and digital literacy in the period between 2000 and 2013; the number and nationality of authors with 3 or more published scientific works on these two concepts have during this period; and predominant research lines on the concepts of literacy and digital literacy over this period of 13 years. Based on this literature review, we can state that the most investigated literacy processes are those related to Web 2.0 practices.

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Writing Edwardian postcards

Cited by 17 publications

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Stoic and Sentimental: The Emotional Work of the Edwardian Greetings Postcard

Stoic and Sentimental: The Emotional Work of the Edwardian Greetings Postcard

Multimodal Ethnography in/of/as Postcards

Estudios científicos sobre alfabetización y alfabetización digital indexados en Scopus: revisión bibliográfica (2000-2013)

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