Some theater or concert-goers or sports fans have, over the years, saved their ticket stubs from the shows or games they’ve attended. But that’s not much of a thing anymore — not because those attendees have lost interest in their collections, but because paper tickets don’t really exist for many of these events.
It’s a topic that hits close to home for Bailey Sincox. She’s a Perkins-Cotsen postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a lecturer in the school’s English department. In an essay, she traces the demise of the paper ticket, and considers what’s lost when entry to events is almost entirely digital.
Sincox spoke with The Show more about this — starting with what got her interested in this transformation of ticket stubs, programs and memorabilia from events from paper to more digital.
