Blissed by the past: Theorizing media-induced nostalgia as an audience response factor for entertainment and well-being

Wulf, Tim; Rieger, Diana und Schmitt, Josephine B. (2018): Blissed by the past: Theorizing media-induced nostalgia as an audience response factor for entertainment and well-being. In: Poetics, Bd. 69: S. 70-80

Abstract

Research found media to contribute to human well-being via hedonic and non-hedonic entertainment experiences. In this connection, research has seldom taken memories about preceding media exposure into consideration for their impact on present media use. Media-induced nostalgia defined as bittersweet and fundamentally social emotion that is elicited by remembering or re-experiencing media content and technologies from the past serves a self-oriented, existential and social function. We propose that by serving these functions, media-induced nostalgia contributes to hedonic and non-hedonic entertainment experiences and influences psychological and subjective well-being. We review existing literature on two-process models of entertainment, well-being, and nostalgia. Consequently, we provide a framework for integrating media-induced nostalgia into the complex field of media entertainment.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: experiences;Hedonic;Media;non-hedonic entertainment;Nostalgia;psychological well-being;Subjective
• Fakultät: Sozialwissenschaften > Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung (IfKW)
• Themengebiete: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen ; 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie
• ISSN: 0304-422X
• Sprache: Englisch