How and Why to Measure Personal and Historical Nostalgic Responses Through Entertainment Media

Natterer, Kathrin

doi:10.1080/14241277.2014.989567

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“…Our findings are also in line with research demonstrating nostalgia to be elicited by media content: Besides music (Barrett et al, 2010), film-and video game trailers (Natterer, 2014), and reminiscences of media used in the past (Wulf, Bowman et al, 2018, the current study provides evidence that actual video game play can elicit nostalgia. This finding suggests that nostalgia elicited by anticipating game play, as well as actual game play, is associated with personal meaning.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Nostalgic experiences are characterized by recalling positive, meaningful events from the past that were typically experienced with close others (Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006). Nostalgia can be triggered by psychological threats such as boredom (van Tilburg, Igou, & Sedikides, 2013), loneliness (Wildschut et al, 2006), meaninglessness (Routledge et al, 2011), or threats to authenticity (Baldwin, Biernat, & Landau, 2015), and incidental experiences such as smells (Reid, Green, Wildschut, & Sedikides, 2014), music (Cheung et al, 2013), movies, video game trailers (Natterer, 2014), and memories of playing games (Wulf, Bowman, Velez, & Breuer, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Being a kid again: Playing Pokémon Go contributes to wellbeing through nostalgia

Wulf¹,

Baldwin²

2020

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This research investigates the augmented-reality smartphone game Pokémon Go and proposes that nostalgia is one particular reason for the game’s popularity and success. We propose that nostalgia acts as both a precursor to individuals’ desire to play the game, and a variable that predicts entertainment experiences and well-being while using the game. Two studies investigate these predictions. Study 1 was conducted in Germany before the game’s release in 2016 and shows that the meaning players ascribe to Pokémon predicted anticipated nostalgia, which in turn motivated them to play the game. Study 2 replicates and extends these findings in an American sample after the game’s release. Again, meaningfulness of Pokémon predicted game-induced nostalgia, which mediated the effect of meaningfulness on eudaimonic entertainment. Eudaimonic entertainment, in turn, predicted psychological well-being. Taken together, these findings draw a bi-directional link between nostalgia and media consumption and substantiate research regarding the well-being functions of both.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Being a kid again: Playing Pokémon Go contributes to wellbeing through nostalgia

Wulf¹,

Baldwin²

2020

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“…That support for nostalgia (H2) was found-although not consistently-makes sense given research around how nostalgia can drive interest in games (Heineman, 2014;Natterer, 2014;Whalen & Taylor, 2008). With publicity for the newer game, people either reminisce about the older game or, if they have the right hardware, can revisit the older game by playing it.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition

Bergstrom

Poor²

2021

Social Media + Society

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We studied the Reddit communities for three game franchises at the time of a new release in each franchise to see what the members of the Reddit community for the now-older game would do in terms of their community involvement and membership. Specifically, we sought to determine if community members transitioned to the community for a new game, leaving behind their established community devoted to the now-older game. Our main finding was that most people did not move to the new community, but instead remained with their established community. We argue that nostalgia played an important role for community members, whom we frame as fans. Data came from Reddit communities for The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and the Civilization franchises, comprising data on over 10 million posts from five different year-long time periods, each centered on the release of a new game in each of those franchises.

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“…Research on the potential of media stimuli to trigger nostalgia has found that trailers of video games and movies may hold the potential to make people feel nostalgic (Natterer, 2014). Wulf and Rieger (2017) found evidence that the parasocial relationships that viewers establish with on-screen media personae (cf.…”

Section: Video Games and Nostalgiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Running Head: Video Game Nostalgia and Retro Gaming

Wulf

Bowman

Rieger

et al. 2018

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This article conceptually integrates research on the experience of nostalgia—defined as a predominantly positive, social, and past-oriented emotion—into the fold of video game research. We emphasize the role of nostalgia as an explanation for contemporary retro gaming trends, and suggest that nostalgia towards gaming events is a necessary area of research. To those ends, we broadly review existing literature on nostalgia before specifically focusing on media-induced nostalgia, and demonstrate how theoretical and empirical observations from this work can be applied to understand video game nostalgia. In particular, we argue that engaging in older gaming experiences indirectly (via memories) and even directly (via replaying or recreating experiences) elicits nostalgia, which in turn contributes to players' self-optimization and enhanced well-being. Moreover, as gamers and the medium mature together, nostalgic experiences with the medium are likely to become increasingly prevalent. The broad aim of this article is to offer future directions for research on video game nostalgia and provide a research agenda for research in this area.

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How and Why to Measure Personal and Historical Nostalgic Responses Through Entertainment Media

Cited by 27 publications

References 39 publications

Being a kid again: Playing Pokémon Go contributes to wellbeing through nostalgia

Being a kid again: Playing Pokémon Go contributes to wellbeing through nostalgia

Reddit Gaming Communities During Times of Transition

Running Head: Video Game Nostalgia and Retro Gaming

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