October 10, 2015
Tobias Becker, « Panel 4: Media Nostalgia », Nostalgia, ID : 10670/1.jsl3i7
No discussion of nostalgia can do without taking into account the media—the topic of the fourth panel. KATHARINA NIEMEYER, who recently edited a collection of essays on Media and Nostalgia, gave a paper on "Amateur Nostalgia on the Web: Remixing Vintage Media Technologies and Content". Taking her cue from the carousel scene from the TV series Mad Men she discussed various forms and uses of nostalgia on the web, which she saw less driven by an interest in the past than by the creative anticipa...