Category: Audience/Reception Studies

Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

May 28, 2013

Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender

(The literature review for this paper can be found in this previous post.) Study overview As indicated above, our purpose for this study was to enter the literature on gender differences in game playing with two variations on the extant literature. One of these was to include male and female assessments of game playing gratifications…
Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

May 23, 2013

Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players’ preferences

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…