CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

This three-part post comes from a 2007 International Communication Association conference paper. The research was an attempt to understand if gender was as large of a factor in player’s experiences and preferences as specific situations of playing digital games. INTRODUCTION The digital game industry has become a powerful media and cultural force over the…

Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

May 12, 2013

Equestria Girls: Targeting Furries?

This will definitely be receiving more academic treatment from me, as I do some side projects on the issues of gender and reception surrounding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This new movie turns the ponies into quasi-humans (they retain their pony colors but in human form). Hasbro says they are trying to target teenage…

Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

April 29, 2013

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 media plays in forming people’s identities. At the time, I researched everything I could on the psychological and sociological underpinnings of identity formation, to try to understand how the media could be involved in this…

Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies

April 12, 2013

Hollywood Dialogue

Dialogue may be considered to be a session of give-and-take that occurs with relatively short turnaround time — one person speaks, then the other person responds, leading to the first responding to the second’s responses, and so forth. The time lag between the first person speaking and then speaking again is the consideration for the…

Film Studies

April 5, 2013

Gangstas, Thugs, Vikings and Drivers: A Presentation

Christopher Olson of DePaul University presents an analysis of the depiction of masculinity in the films of Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn: Gangstas, Thugs, Vikings and Drivers ppt. For more information, you can contact him at chrstphrolson@gmail.com.

Virtual World Television as Interactive Television

Fandom, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

April 1, 2013

Virtual World Television as Interactive Television

This presentation was recently given at the 2013 Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation focuses on an analysis of our Virtual World Television project, which will be ramping up as the year continues. You can find the PowerPoint, with notes, at this blog post. And stay tuned to this blog and that…

Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Film Studies

March 25, 2013

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 and he is helping me finalize and expand. These are some preliminary thoughts about approaching the study of how spectators engage with films. Answering the Whats, Hows, and Whys of Film Spectatorship from Dominican University…

Communication Studies

March 12, 2013

The Golem’s Creator: How Communication Influences Life

Back in 1997, so seemingly long ago, I took a class at UW-Madison that turned me from a pre-med student into a double major of communication arts and psychology that would eventually lead me to become the scholar I am today. For this class, we had to write a paper about the communication theories we…

Digital Games

March 1, 2013

OUYA Visits Chicago Game Developers

Julie Uhrman, the founder and CEO of OUYA, visited the Chicagoland tonight at a function organized by the Chicago chapter of the International Game Developers Association. Her goal was to introduce to the new open source video game console to local game developers, as well as answer their questions and gather their ideas ahead of…

Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies

February 28, 2013

Corporations Ploy to Educate Online Pirates

I wrote this week’s Dr. Geek piece for Clearance Bin Review on the recent implementation by the big five ISPs in the United States — AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision and Time Warner — of a new “educational program” designed as a warning and punishment system to stop people from engaging in peer-to-peer filesharing of copyrighted…

Author: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard