Subjective Experiences of Interactive Nostalgia

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.

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.