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  • A Manifesto for 21st Century Higher Education

    A Manifesto for 21st Century Higher Education

    Looking over alum surveys for my school, thinking about what the future of higher education is, and am finding that both undergraduate (UG) and graduate (G) alums seem to want the same types of knowledges and skills, just in more and more specific contexts that aid their careers. I did a quick and dirty content […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    January 5, 2022
    Higher Education
    careers, college, communication, community college, experiential learning, higher education, liberal arts and sciences, literacies, skills, technical school, trade school, university
  • Compassionate Pedagogy for Online Teaching

    Compassionate Pedagogy for Online Teaching

    In this blog post, I am collecting my thoughts as well as links to other people’s thoughts and writings about how to teach online from a perspective and position of compassion for learners. This information was originally collected on Twitter. Additionally, this notion of “compassionate pedagogy” is not limited to online teaching and learning but […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    May 13, 2020
    Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Higher Education, Internet Studies
    communication, compassion, compassionate pedagogy, dialogue, online communication, online community, online education, online learning, online learning community, online learning environment, online teaching, pandemic
  • A Communication Toolbox for Communication Literacy

    A Communication Toolbox for Communication Literacy

    The following is an excerpt from my book Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities. To read all of the information, you will need to get the book, either from a seller or your local library. [Do not cite this blog post as it is an abridged version of what appears in the book. All […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    January 14, 2020
    Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom
    communication, communication gaps, communication literacy, communication situations, communication skills, communication toolbox, contentious communication, dialogue, fractured fandom, listening, monologue, no-logue, positive communication, power, questions, Respect, Situationality, stiutations
  • Marriage Around the World

    An undergraduate paper from my cultural psychology class — how much have times changed in the two decades since? In 1999, Davila et al. examined the changes in attachment which are thought to occur in American married couples after the “newlywed phase.”  They tested several theories to see how attachment style can change as people […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    November 21, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • Investigation into the Mass Media: Then and Then Again

    Investigation into the Mass Media: Then and Then Again

    I love finding old papers I wrote. They help me understand where I came from and show the process of becoming a scholar — or whatever I want to call myself these days. I think we need more established scholars sharing these types of reflections on their processes, so finding old papers is a way […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    July 14, 2021
    Communication Studies
    Communication Studies, John Doolittle, Journal of Broadcasting, Karl J. Nestvold, media research, media studies, Michael Kuan Tsai, Paul H. Wagner, philosophy, Radio Journalism, Richard M. Mall, Rolf B. Meyersohn
  • Professional Wrestling Fanfiction from an EDR Perspective

    Professional Wrestling Fanfiction from an EDR Perspective

    I have been working on this project for a couple years now (as seen here, here, and here). I’m not sure if it will ever get to the point to be truly publishable, and I don’t really need it “published” in the traditional academic sense. So, I’m just going to continue sharing my thoughts on […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    June 4, 2021
    Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Professional Wrestling
    Ciampa, Decoding, Encoding, encoding-decoding-recoding model, encoding/decoding model, Fanfiction, Gargano, headcanon, homosexuality, homosociality, Johnny Gargano, kayfabe, NXT, Recoding, Shipping, Slash, Tommaso Ciampa, WWE
  • Media Engaging(s): Or, How I Learned To Be Both/And in an Either/Or Discipline

    Media Engaging(s): Or, How I Learned To Be Both/And in an Either/Or Discipline

    This essay contains an early draft of what I ultimately wrote for the Participations special issue on “media engagement” as a concept in audience studies. This essay contains some good ideas that were no where near ready for publishing. I may also not have the time to come back to them, as I have been […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    May 25, 2021
    Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Research Method(ology)s
    agency, audience studies, Communication Studies, critical studies, Cultural Studies, fan studies, human-computer interaction, media effects, media engagings, media studies, media uses and effects, minutia, objectivity, phenomenological, power, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology, Situationality, structure, subjectivity, talk-aloud, transjectivity, Uses and Gratifications
  • Squirrel Girl and Feminism

    Squirrel Girl and Feminism

    I created this video for DePaul’s Pop Culture Conference in 2021 on superheroes. For the first time, it was an entirely online conference with asynchronous, video presentations for academic work. The ideas in this piece come from a chapter I wrote for an anthology being produced by Bryan Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen. That chapter […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    May 12, 2021
    Comics Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies
    Disney, Fandom, Feminism, fourth-wave feminism, Marvel, Marvel Comics, public intellectualism, public scholarship, second-wave fmeinism, Squirrel Girl, third-wave feminism
  • Fandom During the Pandemic

    Fandom During the Pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on our lives, including how we experience our fandoms. Cons were moved online or cancelled. New movies came out on streaming apps at the same time as theatrical releases. Online gaming replaced in-person gaming. And people turned to their fandoms to cope with the pandemic. Krysten Stein and […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    April 24, 2021
    Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom
    COVID-19, fan studies, Fandom, fans, mental health, pandemic
  • Disney+, the Fan Industrial Complex, and Star Wars

    Disney+, the Fan Industrial Complex, and Star Wars

    I love this term: Fan Industrial Complex. Chris thinks he heard it from someone else, so I will need to investigate it. Because from a media ecology perspective, it’s very useful. That’s what we have now with online mediated fan-producer networks. The technologies and economic systems require a symbiosis between more ardent fans and producers, […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    February 20, 2021
    Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Film Studies, Internet Studies, pop culture studies
    convergence culture, Disney+, Fan Industrial Complex, fan-producer relationships, Fandom, fandom ecology, fans, Marvel, MCU, media ecology, producers, Rise of the Skywalker, social media platforms, Star Wars, transmedia
  • The Four Paradigms in Spiral Form

    The Four Paradigms in Spiral Form

    Subtitle: A positivistically constructed model to critique dominant design with a postmodern flair This was a group project from a class with Patti Lather at OSU in 2005 that I completed with Carrie Hung, Hana Kang, and Yongfang Zhang. I look at it now and think it’s so twee! In looking at the four research […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    January 14, 2021
    Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Higher Education, Research Method(ology)s
    constructivism, constructivist, critical, critical theory, deconstructivism, deconstructivist, discipline, ideology, interpretation, metaphors, paradigmatic dialogue, paradigms, phenomenology, philosophy, positivism, positivist, post-modernism
  • Taxonomy of Fannish Behaviors: A Work in Progress

    Taxonomy of Fannish Behaviors: A Work in Progress

    I’m really interested in the ways we define fandom. Is it just associated with popular culture, or is it a more fundamental aspect of human life? I’m going to use this blog to work through my thoughts on this matter, so it isn’t by any means a completed document, and I will do my best […]

    CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

    November 7, 2020
    Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom
    attitudes, classification, definition, fan community, fan studies, Fandom, fannish behavior, fans, taxonomy
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