Young People, Media, and Nostalgia

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young people make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. By examining media reception, social imaginaries, and young audiences in the Global South, this book brings to the fore new insights concerning the role media has in fostering senses of national memory by highlighting the key role of everyday media engagements in comprehending the relationship between past, present and future.

This comprehensive empirical study will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of media and communications studies, Latin American studies, sociology, digital culture, memory studies, social and cultural anthropology, youth studies, cultural studies, and readers interested in popular culture, television, and cinema.