4 The Longing for Home. Nostalgia for Digital Platforms

In 2020, the journalist Joanne McNeil wrote that “fondness for Myspace has grown as time passes. It has come to represent a particular moment of freedom and drama online, especially to those too young to remember it.” The notion that someone might miss or yearn for a technology they don’t remember using might seem like a paradox, but we read this instead as a marker of what we’ve already identified as a specifically digital nostalgia.