Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation
A long time ago, when I first started graduate school, one of my primary research interests was the role the …
Tag Archives: Sense-making
The Whats, Hows and Whys of Film Spectatorship
Earlier this month, Christopher Olson and I presented at the 2013 SCMS conference work I started in my graduate school …
Analyzing Obama’s 2012 Victory Speech
In the early hours of November 7th, 2012, Barack Obama took the stage at the McCormick Center in Chicago to …
On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been
I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity …
Virtual Worlds – Sense-making and Innovation
The team from the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark were filmed giving talks about their varied …
The Whats versus Hows of Film Spectatorship
[What follows is a 2007 paper I wrote for a graduate level course on film studies. It was this paper …
Men and Their Engagements with Stereotypically Feminine Media
As I start ramping up for the introduction of Crossing the Gender Line, here is a report I did on …
Making Sense of Entertainment in Virtual Worlds
In September of 2008, with the ink on my doctorate barely dry, I jumped a plane and landed in Denmark. …
The Metaphors of Virtual Worlds
How do people make sense of a novel situation, such as engaging with a media product they’ve never used before? …
Two Men and a Second Life
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, I spent two years working on a post-doc research fellowship for the Virtual …
