Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

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Rodrigo Muñoz-González

Young People, Media, and Nostalgia

An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

Rodrigo Muñoz-González

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Routledge
18 October 2024

Popular culture; Media studies; Social discrimination; Ethnic studies; Age groups: adolescents

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

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

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young audiences make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and the engagement with broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. It also 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 past.

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.

By: Rodrigo Muñoz-González
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 512g
ISBN: 9781032847559
ISBN 10: 1032847557
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 18 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rodrigo Muñoz-González is lecturer at the School of Communication of the University of Costa Rica. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Reviews for Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

“Young People, Media, and Nostalgia offers a fresh and richly detailed account of nostalgia cultures in streaming video. The sharp analytical convergence between cultural studies and memory studies in an era of retro aesthetics, and the grounded exploration of transnational media flows in Central America, make a vital contribution to global media studies”. Adrian Athique, University of Queensland. “A fascinating study of nostalgia and media, Young People, Media, and Nostalgia examines the interplay of Costa Rican youth engagement in nostalgic TV and film from the US. The ethnographic research gives a framework for reception studies, as well as unveiling the transnational dynamics at play which are shaping young audience reactions to nostalgic representations”. Liz Harvey-Kattou, University of Westminster “This wonderful study gives timely new insight into the complex workings of nostalgia in the digital age. Muñoz-González combines an impressive theoretical range with empirical research into the complex motivations that make American media like Stranger Things and Bohemian Rhapsody so appealing to Costa Rican youth culture. Young People, Media, and Nostalgia thereby sheds urgent new light on the political, cultural, and social aspects of transnational media in the digital age”. Dan Hassler-Forest, Utrecht University.