Nostalgia for the Past or New Horizons for the Future: A Short Introduction to Information Practices of the Pandemic

At the time of writing this text, the number of cases worldwide was over 150 mil- lion, and the number of people who lost their lives since late 2019 was over 3 mil- lion. As stated in the title of the book, we were far from the period we can call Post. Therefore, the recommendation of this study can be seen as questioning a possible future. With an optimistic disposition, the experiences of the present can give insight into the projected Post. Although the process is incomplete and the damage is not fully calculated, each island of experience that occurs during the pandemic process provides a view for possible options for the future. Here, two major questions about the -post provide motivation to the academicians and intellectuals although they echo banal: “Will we go back to the beautiful days of past?” and “are we going to build a brand-new world order?” These questions, which are nostalgic at one end and futuristic at the other, both can be answered with experiences in the present.