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William Uricchio.
Zhong, Lingyuxiu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Comparative Media Studies.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
2014-09-19T21:32:08Z
2014-09-19T21:32:08Z
2014
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89975
890129765
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-101).
In the early twentieth century, the emergence of national market and maturation of color printing technologies brought a revolution in advertising. Consumers received and collected many colorful advertising images and pasted them into scrapbooks. Nowadays, a group of visually-driven social commerce sites like Pinterest.com provides a platform on which both businesses and consumer-collectors publish, collect, and circulate images en masse. This thesis examines historical scrapbooks as well as a variety of Pinterest collections through the theoretical lens of sociology to determine whether Pinterest enables new modes of collection, consumption and community formation. This thesis shows that while collections of commercial images of products are often spaces in which we express consumer desires for products and engage in hedonistic imaginative play, the socially-networked nature of Pinterest allows a new type of malleable, global and taste-based community to develop that can engage in collective imaginative play.
by Lingyuxiu Zhong.
S.M.
101 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Comparative Media Studies.
My pins are my dreams : Pinterest, collective daydreams, and the aspirational gap
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