Category: Industry Analysis Studies

• Transjective Media Studies and Reciprocal Determinism

  

  Yep, that’s right — I’m being one of those academics. Engaging in neologisms to make a name for myself. But what I am working through here is an idea for a book project, and I’d love peoples’ comments to help me to do so. Redefining Media Studies A medium is a technology for the storage, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 23, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Film Studies, Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies, pop culture studies, Television Studies, Virtual Worlds

  Brenda Dervin, media engagings, Media products, media studies, media theory, reciprocal determinism, Sense-Making Methodology, transjective

• San Diego Comic Con

  

  In a first, the forty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast finds friend of the podcast Joan Miller (@a_wild_acafan) joining Christopher Olson and myself to discuss the importance of the grand-daddy fan convention, San Diego Comic Con. In this episode, the trio discuss how SDCC came to be the pop cultural juggernaut that it […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 22, 2019

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

  Comic books, comic conventions, convergence, convergence culture, economic convergence, exploitation, fan conventions, fan exploitation, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, gatekeeping, participatory culture, policing boundaries, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC

• Doctor Who Theme Week @ In Media Res

  Chris Olson and I kick off the In Media Res theme week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.  This piece, with a wonderful video produced by Chris, is based on the conference paper we recently presented at MPCA. You can see the post and the video via “I AM the Doctor”: Polysemic rhetoric and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 16, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Industry Analysis Studies, Text Analysis

  Doctor Who, The Doctor

• “I AM the Doctor.”: The Historical Trajectory of Doctor Who

  “I AM the Doctor.”: Polysemic rhetorical flexibility and non-traditional audience reception in Doctor Who By Christopher J. Olson, DePaul University & CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Dominican University This paper was presented at the MPCA 2013 Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.  This is the longer version of the presentation, and thus it represents are full current thoughts on […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 18, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Industry Analysis Studies

  BBC, Condit, Cybermen, Daleks, David Tennant, Doctor Who, fake geek girl, fantasy, Fiske, fractured fandom, historical, horror, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, polysemic, polyvalent, rhetoric, romance, Russell T. Davies, science fiction, Steven Moffat, The Doctor, Time Lords

• Equestria Girls: Displeasure Among Bronies

  It was quite a busy day yesterday on the My Little Pony Facebook page.  Hasbro announced the release date for the Equestria Girls movie (on DVD this Tuesday!  which makes it the widest release!) as well as the toy line associated with the spin-off. As I have been tracking since the beginning of the marketing for the spin-off (starting […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 3, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies

  bronies, Equestria Girls, Facebook, Hasbro, Marketing, MLP:FIM, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, social media, toy line

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 12, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies

  copyright, dialogue, Fandom, Firefly, interactivity, Jayne hats, MMORPGs

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 28, 2013

  Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies

  Center for Copyright Information, Copyright Alert System, copyright infringement, online piracy

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 19, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies

  alternate endings, apps, CBS, CBS Connect, Clue, content interactivity, Hawaii Five-O, interactivity, iPad, mobile technologies, second screen, social interactivity, social media, social tv, Twitter

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 23, 2012

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

  3d printing, consumerism, consumption, desktop manufacturing, holidays, prosumers, prosumption

• Whose Voices?: The elite versus the public in the game of merger mania

  (I wrote this back in 1999, as part of my consternation about the rise of media mergers after the 1996 Telecommunications Act.  Unfortunately, such consternation has not abated: in fact, they might have gotten worse with the rise of predominance of the Internet.) Forget Pokémon.  Merger mania is the real game sweeping the nation.  In […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 2, 2012

  Industry Analysis Studies

  horizontal integration, media business, media industry, media mergers, Telecommunications Act of 1996, vertical integration