Category: Audience/Reception Studies
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Fandom Scale
The following is the most recent version of the Likert items used to measure external and internal fandom behaviors. This scale was developed from the following sources for use by the Politics, Religion, and Fandom Research Group (https://twitter.com/PoliReliFandom): Chadborn, D., Edwards, P., & Reysen, S. (2017). Displaying fan identity to make friends. Intensities: The Journal…
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Fandom as Attitude
Applying Fan Studies Beyond Popular Culture I wrote this essay for a book proposal that was rejected. I plan to continue to expand this idea, but I wanted to share what I wrote in case it will help others. While increasingly common in everyday conversations, people utilize the term “fandom” for different purposes. One understanding…
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Overlapping Fandom, Political, and Religious Attitudes
My name is CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Ph.D. and I am a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Dominican University. I am conducting a research project as part of a larger study on the overlaps between fandoms, politics, and religions. I am requesting your voluntary participation in my study surveying people’s political and religious beliefs…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Virtual World Fandom Quasi-Autoethnography
This post contains my reflections on trying to express my Star Wars fandom in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. These reflections are based on the Twitter thread I ran in the summer and fall of 2020, which can be found here. I tried to reconstruct it chronologically to show the progression of events and my thoughts…
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WrestlePosium I Presentation
Earlier this year I organized, ran, and presented at the inaugural WrestlePosium open online symposium for the Professional Wrestling Studies Association. My presentation concerned the work I have been doing looking at wrestling fans writing slash for the characters of Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. The entire presentation can viewed here. The other presentations from…
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