CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

Our definitions and metaphors: Discussion of how researchers and designers as users make sense of virtual world technologies This short essay reflects a project that occurred before, during and after an international workshop hosted by the Virtual Worlds Research Project. The goal was to complete a dialogue to help us understand the multiplicity of terms…

Digital Games

February 15, 2013

The Nintendo Wii U Experience

Thanks to the technology grant offered by my wonderful university, I was able to purchase a Deluxe Nintendo Wii U — which means it comes with Nintendo Land so that you do not have to purchase it separately. As part of my ongoing series as Dr. Geek for Clearance Bin Review, I wrote about my initial reaction…

Text Analysis

February 12, 2013

Analyzing Obama’s 2013 SOTUS

Back after the election was determined, I used the tag cloud generator Wordle.net to analyze Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. Just to follow-up, I decided that the same type of analysis would be usefully applied to Obama’s most recent big speech: his 2013 State of the Union Speech (SOTUS, as we now say in this Twitter,…

Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies

January 19, 2013

CBS, Hawaii Five-O and Content Interactivity

CBS is no newcomer when it comes to experimenting with giving their audience a more interactive experience with their television programming. As I’ve discussed elsewhere on this blog, the television network in the past had offered their audience a chance to engage in social interactivity while watching their favorite shows online. The network had structured…

Uncategorized

January 18, 2013

2013 and the Future of Gaming

My last two posts for Clearance Bin Review as Dr. Geek have been considerations for the future of gaming given some technologies that are scheduled to be released this year. These technologies all share a common aspect: they appear to be challenging the traditional console gaming market, whether by hardware, interface, or game distribution. In…

Audience/Reception Studies, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

December 15, 2012

Virtual World Television: The Blog

As I’ve discussed elsewhere on this blog (such as here and here), I’ve undertaken a new project with producer Pooky Amsterdam to look into the phenomenon of virtual world television. As part of this study, I’ve interviewed over two dozen producers from the virtual world Second Life. Pooky and I have been gathering information about their…

Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Industry Analysis Studies

November 23, 2012

3D Printing: The end of consumerism?

We’ve been contemplating acquiring a 3D printer at my university for pedagogical and research purposes. As part of this contemplation, I have had to learn more about the technology and uses of desktop manufacturing. And in doing this, I began thinking about how the diffusion and integration of 3D printing into everyday life could change…

Critical/Cultural Studies, Text Analysis

November 15, 2012

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 give his re-election victory speech after Republican challenger Mitt Romney had conceded the defeat of Ohio, and as Ohio went, so went the nation. In about 20 minutes, Obama thanked his family, his friends, his…

Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Internet Studies

October 28, 2012

What’s the Impact of Political Memes?

This political season has been fraught with them: political memes. Pictures and videos combined with political messages to comment on and/or parody some aspect of the various campaigns engulfing various parts of the nation. From “binders full of women” to “the 47%”, people have been using social media and the phenomenon of Internet memes to…

Audience/Reception Studies

October 20, 2012

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 to organize these thoughts to provide the beginning of a structure for how to organize my research, past, present and future. For awhile now, I’ve been convinced that how the new media has affected our…

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