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Milina Ivanović-Barišić
Ethnographic Institute of the SASA, Belgrade
Milina.Barisic@sanu.ac.rs
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Holiday text message well-wishing
Text messages became an important means of everyday communication,
especially so among the younger generations. As a relatively new way of
communication, sending and receiving of text messages is shoving other,
classical means, such as letter writing. Sending a written message via cel-
lular phone became usual means of communication in almost all life cir-
cumstances. This paper discusses messages sent out as well-
wishing/cards for the most important yearly holidays.
Key words:
holidays, well-wishing/cards,
communication, text messages
One of the main features of the contemporary way of life is a need for fast
information transfer and accessibility. The new technologies so became indispensa-
ble. The accessibility of cellular phones and possibility of faster, easier and simpler
way of communication have made the usage of cell phones popular and widespread
in the today’s Serbian market.
Europe has witnessed the same phenomena during the 1980s, when cell
phones became a means of mass communication. At the same time, the 1980s ex-
perienced the increasing influence of global culture (especially mass-media and in-
formation technology) in creation and shaping of the new ways of communication.
In Serbia, modernization of information technologies commenced during
the 1990s, and entered mass usage with the new millennium. Computer and mobile
technologies were inaccessible for larger segments of Serbian population until very
recently.
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This paper is a part of the project 147020: Serbia in between traditionalism and modernization-
ethnological and anthropological studies of cultural processes, financed by the Serbian Ministry
of Science and Technological Development.
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