If you’re curious (and can read in Portuguese!) here’s the early version of the paper (I don’t seem to find the published book chapter?!): lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/ha...

proper ‘social medium’ (we didn’t call it platform!) for many of them. I wonder what the results would be if we decided to do a similar study now about the ‘death’ of Twitter – and whether any nostalgic appreciation has been too severely tainted by the enshittification since the rebranding to X…

how the nostalgic affective attachments publicly manifested by people were not restricted to the affordances, the communities, and the memes typical of that sociotechnical environment; they were also highlighting the foundational role that site had played in people’s digital lives, being the first