I thought this story from Friday on NPR was fascinating in the way it talks about posters on lampposts in Berlin. Even though modern communication technology abounds in the city, people still use modes of communication from an era when the ability to reach out was much more limited. People advertise sales, lost items, political rants, and sometime just personal statements. It makes me think that new media is just another way of doing the things we have always done.
Well, they didn’t call them Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) for nothing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system