Media history, 2019: A cultural history of the Walkman
February 19, 2020

Author of the study: Maruša Pušnik

Year of the study: 2019

Keywords: media history; history; media; mass media; media studies

The purpose of the study was to get to know the use of the media - Walkman, from a historical perspective, and its importance in everyday life in the past, stemming from theoretical starting point of media and cultural studies. Today’s "dead" medium, lived its golden years in the 1980s and 1990s. The aim was to reconstruct its meaning, role and uses in society in the past. The cultural history of the forgotten medium thus reveals some uses of the media that have been present in the past and have become widespread with digital mobile media today.

The study was conducted within the subject of Media History at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Pušnik, M. (2019). Media history, 2019: Cultural history of Walkman [Data file]. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana, Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov = Social Science Data Archives. ADP - IDNo: MEDZGW19. https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_MEDZGW19_V1/