What Nostalgia Is and What It Does
What We Can Learn from Nostalgia
“media nostalgia understood as the longing for past media culture and technology”
→ in order to cope with media change
retro gaming?
“a collective identity crisis that called for nostalgia as a way of coping to overcome this (...) connect nostalgia with coping and societal change”
“He recognized a shift in the landscape of nostalgia that formerly was “inhabited mainly by persons, places, and events of political or civic character” to a landscape predominantly inhabited by “media creations, personalities, and allusions”
“people’s nostalgia is connected to avoidance”
→ not the best way to cope?
“Nostalgia is often triggered by media because many memories about the past are accessible through media”
→ before it was pictures and places, now it’s photos and objects