Category: Research Method(ology)s

• 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

• 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

• Work In Progress: Applying SMM to Fan Studies

  

  This draft comes from a presentation given at the 2018 MPCA/ACA conference in Indianapolis. Introduction Communication scholar Brenda Dervin created the Sense-Making Methodology as a methodological approach for conducting interviews that draws on metatheoretical concepts such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the humanistic approach to psychology. Since its formulation, Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) has been utilized across […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 10, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Research Method(ology)s

  Brenda Dervin, fan studies, Fandom, fans, Methodology, repeatedly returning, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology

• Being Methodological in Audience Studies: Applying Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology

  

  I’ve shared in previous posts (here and here) thoughts from my PhD candidacy exam. In this post, I share my thoughts on being methodological when it comes to doing audience studies. As with the other posts, this essay was originally written in 2007. 1. What does being methodological mean? To paraphrase myself from an earlier […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  audience studies, Brenda Dervin, ethnographic, fan studies, film studies, media effects, media studies, methodological, Methodology, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology, uses and gratfications

• 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

• Identification with Favorite Media Personae

  

  I presented this study at my first International Communication Association conference in May 2005. It was the first major study I did by myself in graduate school. I remember making these slides to show on a projector — there was no PowerPoint! I should probably revisit it.  Identification with Favorite Media Personae: A phenomenologically-informed conceptualization of […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 13, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Research Method(ology)s

  fan studies, Identification, media personalities, reception studies, similarity identification, wishfulness identification

• Three Approaches to Media Reception and Audience Reception Studies

  

  This paper was part of my 2007 comp exams, or qualification exams, that I needed to complete before being allowed to do my dissertation. This paper basically serves as the backbone for how I understand reception studies and how I do such research. In this paper I will discuss three approaches to understanding audience reception […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 20, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Film Studies, Research Method(ology)s

• The Multiplicity of Virtual Worlds

  Our definitions and metaphors: Discussion of how researchers and designers as users make sense of virtual world technologies This short essay reflects a project that occurred before, during and after an international workshop hosted by the Virtual Worlds Research Project.  The goal was to complete a dialogue to help us understand the multiplicity of terms […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 26, 2013

  Research Method(ology)s, Text Analysis, Virtual Worlds

  3D web, axiology, communication, definitions, dialogue, Epistemology, field construction, jargon, Methodology, MMORPG, MUD, MUVE, ontology, research communication, virtual community, virtual environments, Virtual Reality, Virtual worlds

• Cultivated Learning Theory: Graduate school, year one

  In the theory class of the first semester of my first year as a graduate student, I was in a group with two other MA hopefuls, and we wrote a paper on how we would study the topic of how the media influences adolescents’ and young adults’ sexual behaviors.  Always the clever one, I termed […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 16, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  cultivated learning theory, cultivation theory, excitation transfer theory, media and sex, media effects, priming theory, sex, social learning theory, the birds and the bees, Uses and Gratifications

• Minutia reception analysis

  Methods for understanding the moment-by-moment reception of interactive media Oftentimes in media studies that focus on understanding media reception by the audience or the user, there is a focus on reception writ large and post-hoc. That is, there is a tendency to consider the reactions to a media product by the audience/user after the engagement […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 30, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  audience studies, digital media, interactive media, minutia reception, moment-by-moment, reception studies