Catalog Culture

Japanese: カタログ文化 - かたろぐぶんか
Catalog Culture

...In addition, with the recent development of electronic imaging technology, video discs and other media are being used as shopping guides in stores, and are beginning to function as catalogs. The proliferation of "organized product information" through catalogs, linked to the information exchange movement among young people in the United States in the late 1960s, gave birth to a "catalog culture" characterized by "organized fragmented information," and led to a series of catalog booms, including the "Whole Earth Catalog" (1969). [Shimamori Mitsuo]...

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "catalog culture" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また近年の電子映像技術の発達により,ビデオディスクなどを利用したものが,店頭のショッピング案内などに活用され,カタログとしての機能を果たしつつある。カタログによる〈整理された商品情報〉のはんらんは,1960年代末のアメリカの若者たちによる情報交換運動と結びついて,〈整理された断片情報〉を特色とする〈カタログ文化〉を生むにいたり,《全地球カタログWhole Earth Catalog》(1969)をはじめとする一連のカタログ・ブームを招いた。【島守 光雄】。…

※「カタログ文化」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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