<i>Gone Home</i>, and the power of affective nostalgia

Veale, Kevin

doi:10.1080/13527258.2016.1262447

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“… 88 E.g. Blunt 2003; Orr 2017; Smith and Campbell 2017; Veale 2017. The term “now-stalgia” has been recently coined by Korean journalists for this mode of nostalgia.…”

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Beyond “imagined” nostalgia: Gunsan's heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in South Korea

Lee

2021

International Journal of Asian Studies

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In South Korea, romanticization of the era of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) has long been taboo: the period is widely regarded as one of the most painful and shameful parts of South Korean history. However, during the past decade unexpected cracks have appeared in established national narratives on the colonial period. This paper explores the dissonance between long-standing national narratives and the commodification of local heritage sites for tourism, by examining the heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in the city of Gunsan. Despite the Gunsan Municipal Government positions the city's colonial stories in ways that largely align with national official narratives on Japanese colonial history, such efforts have unexpectedly generated feelings of imagined nostalgia in three ways: (1) through clashes between official colonial history and the means by which colonial daily life is depicted in Gunsan's Modern Cultural Belt; (2) through the interwoven colonial and post-colonial stories presented in the city's Modern Historic Landscape District and (3) through the commercialized colonial and post-colonial stories articulated by private businesses in Gunsan. This paper suggests that productive nostalgia can help to overcome the limit of the current form of Gunsan's heritagization, and to construct Gunsan's diverse local memories

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“… 88 E.g. Blunt 2003; Orr 2017; Smith and Campbell 2017; Veale 2017. The term “now-stalgia” has been recently coined by Korean journalists for this mode of nostalgia.…”

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Beyond “imagined” nostalgia: Gunsan's heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in South Korea

Lee

2021

International Journal of Asian Studies

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“…This game puts a player in the shoes of a young woman who returns home and finds that her family is absent. As Veale et al [ 55 ] also discussed, Gone Home is a video game that uses effective storytelling to create empathy and a sense of responsibility in users by placing them within a recent historical moment. In this way, it exposes the user to the positive and negative elements of the past and encourages him/her to stay in the game and reflect on these elements [ 56 ].…”

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Effects of the Uncertainty of Interpersonal Communications on Behavioral Responses of the Participants in an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience: A Usability Study

Hajahmadi

Marfia

2023

Sensors

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Two common difficulties which people face in their daily lives are managing effective communication with others and dealing with what makes them feel uncertain. Past research highlights that the result of not being able to handle these difficulties influences people’s performance in the task at hand substantially, especially in the context of a social environment such as a workplace. Perceived uncertainty of information is a key influential factor in this regard, with effects on the quality of the information transfer between sender and receiver. Uncertainty of information can be induced into the communication system in three ways: when there is any kind of information deficit that makes the target message unclear for the receiver, when there are some requested changes that could not be predicted by the receiver, and when the content of the message is so interconnected and complex that it limits understanding. Since uncertainty is an inseparable feature of our lives, studying the effects that different levels of it have on individuals and how individuals nevertheless accomplish the tasks of daily living is of high importance. Modern technologies such as immersive virtual reality (VR) have been successful in providing effective platforms to support human behavioral and social well-being studies. In this paper, we suggest the design, development, and evaluation of an immersive VR serious game platform to study behavioral responses to the uncertain features of interpersonal communications. In addition, we report the result of a within-subject user study with 17 participants aged between 20 and 35 and their behavioral responses to two levels of uncertainty with subjective and objective measures. The results convey that the application successfully and meaningfully measured some behavioral responses related to exposure to different levels of uncertainty and overall, the participants were satisfied with the experience.

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“…Initially these games are very simple, 14 but they still change the labour and mode of engagement of the person engaging with the text, and later these games rapidly expand in depth and relevance to the storytelling experience. The modes of engagement which set the experience of games apart are grounded in the fact that it is the players of videogames who progress through the text, and come to feel responsible for the outcomes of their decisions and actions in the process (Veale, 2015, 2016). Making meaningful decisions with sensible consequences within the space of the game makes the player aware of a timeline of their own decisions and frames the experience as happening now.…”

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‘Friendship isn’t an emotion fucknuts’: Manipulating affective materiality to shape the experience of Homestuck’s story

Veale

2017

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Homestuck is a textual and experiential chameleon that manipulates its own structure to shape the audience’s affective experience of the story by mimicking not just the storytelling techniques of other media forms, but their modes of engagement as well. This article introduces terminology to illustrate how and why the online serial Homestuck qualifies as a distinctive form of storytelling. I introduce the term transmodal engagement to illustrate how Homestuck uses the affective, experiential affordances of different media forms to sculpt and shape the experience of the text in completely different ways to ‘transmedia’ storytelling. The second term this article introduces is metamedia storytelling, which describes how the audience’s familiarity with storytelling across multiple media forms can be used to manipulate their experience of fiction. Homestuck deploys metamedia storytelling to continually destabilize the reader’s understanding of the text and their investments in the storyworld by forcing re-evaluations of not just what is happening, but what kind of mediated relationship the readers have with the content of the story.

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Gone Home, and the power of affective nostalgia

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Beyond “imagined” nostalgia: Gunsan's heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in South Korea

Beyond “imagined” nostalgia: Gunsan's heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in South Korea

Effects of the Uncertainty of Interpersonal Communications on Behavioral Responses of the Participants in an Immersive Virtual Reality Experience: A Usability Study

‘Friendship isn’t an emotion fucknuts’: Manipulating affective materiality to shape the experience of Homestuck’s story

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