Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia

Ryan Lizardi is an assistant professor of digital media and humanities at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He focuses his research and writing on media encouraged nostalgia—including his books Mediated Nostalgia (2014) and Nostalgic Generations and Media (2017)—as well as explorations of television remakes and representations of time travel in media.

Ryan Lizardi: Introduction – Section 1: Playing Through Nostalgia – Ashley P. Jones: Reconstructing Lara: The Tomb Raider Reboot as Nostalgic Experience – Sebastian Felzmann: "Been There, Done That!": An Examination of Media Nostalgia as a Creative Practice for Creating New Retro Games – Jonathan M. Bullinger: Lego Historical War Sub-Cultures: Idealized Play and Nostalgia – Ryan Lizardi: The Development of Video Game Emulation and Its Subjective Nostalgic Experiences – Section 2: Digitally Nostalgic – Raymond Blanton: An Anthem for Outcasts: The Nostalgia of Friendship in Stranger Things – Alexandra Lippert/Carson S. Kay: Click for Dixie: Virtual Plantation Tours’ Use of White Nostalgia and Directed Narrative Experience – JeongHyun Lee: Subjectivities in Automated Nostalgia: Social Media and Everyday Nostalgic Longing for the Past/Present – Alexandra Bardan/Natalia Vasilendiuc: Representations of the Communist Period in Romanian Digital Communities: A Quest for Online "Displaced Nostalgia" – Section 3: Rethinking Nostalgic Experiences – Mani Mehrvarz/Maryam Muliaee: Media-as-Things: A Nonhistorical Nostalgia Through Failure – Emily Truman: Making Sense of Cultural Crisis: Radical Nostalgia, Iconic Representations, and Popular Culture – Sally J. Spalding: Assessing the Political Possibilities of Interactive Nostalgia – Contributors – Index.