Category: Internet Studies

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mystery Science Theater 3000

  

  In a first, the forty-sixth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast finds friend of the podcast Ryan Schriml (@EalingCA) joining Christopher Olson and myself to discuss the original comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000. In this episode, the trio of Misties reflect on the legacy of the television show in spawning movie-riffing as a modern […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  empowerment, Fandom, media literacy, Misties, MST3k, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, riffing, RiffTrax

• Podcasts for Public Intellectualism: The Pop Culture Lens and public discourse

  

  Written by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson for CSCA 2017. Our podcast The Pop Culture Lens emerged from a mutual desire to engage in more public intellectualism and public scholarship—to engage various publics with ideas from the humanities and social sciences to demonstrate how these abstractions can have concrete impacts on people’s everyday […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 15, 2018

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  media literacy, personal broadcasting, podcasting, Pop culture, pop culture studies, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public intellectuals, public scholars, The Pop Culture Lens

• CfC for Book on Mental Illness in Entertainment Media

  

  Call for Chapters for Book Proposal The editors are seeking chapter proposals for a collection of essays that examine positive, healthy, and accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media. Proposed Title: Quieting the Madness: Entertainment Media’s Shift into More Accurate Depictions of Mental Illness Editors: Malynnda A. Johnson (Indiana State University) and Christopher J. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 26, 2018

  Comics Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Internet Studies, Research Method(ology)s, Television Studies, Text Analysis

  entertainment media, media texts, mental health, mental illness

• Virtual Interactive Television

  

  The Virtual World Television (VWTV) project came to an end when Pooky Amsterdam and I published this article with Participations: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/5.pdf In this article, I outline my thoughts on interactive television as consisting of three types of interactivity: Access interactivity: controlling what to watch, when, where and how Social interactivity: engaging with others while watching […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 29, 2017

  Internet Studies, Television Studies

  access interactivity, content interactivity, Interactive television, social interactivity, virtual world television

• Welcome to the Culture Wars

  

  Note: I will update this post periodically as I see people using terms they may not understand, and appreciate anyone’s help to make certain I am properly translating, defining, and contextualizing terms. EDITED: Here is a great rundown of terms from The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/alt-left-alt-right-glossary.html?_r=0 Feature image comes from http://www.full-stop.net/2011/08/29/features/essays/michael-schapira/how-to-master-the-culture-wars-in-two-weeks/ which shows just how long the culture […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 14, 2017

  Internet Studies

  alt right, antifa, blacksplaining, doxxing, edgelords, gaslighting, harassment, Kekistan, mansplaining, narrative, Nazis, shitlords, social media, splaining, transplaining, Twitter, victims card, virtue signalling

• Podcasts as Public Intellectualism

  

  In the thirty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard present an academic panel from the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference. On this panel, CarrieLynn is joined by Melody Hoffmann of the podcast Femnist Killjoys, PhD and Molly Turner of the podcast Swipe Right on Molly & Thomas. W. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 5, 2017

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  academics, empowerment, higher education, literacies, media literacy, podcasting, podcasts, promotion and tenure, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public scholarship, scholarship, The Pop Culture Lens

• Fractured Fandom in Online Spaces

  

  Fractured Fandom in Online Spaces: Problematic Communication in Communication-Inscribed Places This blog post represents a presentation I gave at the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference, and is based on research I am doing on my Fractured Fandom project. This project is an online self-interview study conducted in 2015. The larger project is being written […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 2, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  communication, communication problems, dialogue, fan studies, Fandom, fractured fandom, interaction, Internet, online spaces, power