Young People, Media, and Nostalgia

An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

von Rodrigo Munoz-Gonzalez

178 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781032847542
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.05.2026
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd