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Nostalgia, media, and technologies of the future
Katharina Niemeyer1, Olga Siebert1
1Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés (CELAT), Canada.
Abstract:
The relation between nostalgia and media is imbricated. Media-used in institutions, industry, or technology-can be a platform for expressing nostalgia, but they can also be the object of nostalgia. This relation makes media a complex and interesting domain to study from a psychological, historical, cultural, environmental, or social perspective on nostalgia. Moreover, nostalgia has been intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, and media texts as well as social networks have helped to heal personal and collective moments of crisis by providing resources to actively rethink the past and the future. This paper discusses the (historically) profound relations between media, technologies and nostalgia.
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