Tag: anxiety

• Trauma and Fractured Fandom

  

  This blog post contains my presentation at MPCA/ACA 2019 from our panel on mental health and fandom. This presentation is the first step in a deeper analysis of my fractured fandom work to understand the traumatic experiences fans expressed in their self-interviews. “fear fearfearfearfear feeling hella unsafe”: The Trauma of Fractured Fandoms As a brief […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 25, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom

  anxiety, Brenda Dervin, communication problems, defensiveness, Depression, difference of opinion, fan community, fanatacism, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, harassment, insecurity, mental health, mental health issues, miscommunication, policing boundaries, power dynamics, power plays, rationalization, Sense-Making Methodology, stereotypes, stigma, stress, trauma

• (The makings of) A Psychoanalytical Critique of Capitalism

  

  This essay comes from probably 2002 when I was living in Los Angeles and working at an agency — and coming to realize that I had an academic deep down inside of me.           I had the privilege of listening to Deepak Chopra and his son, Gotham, today at separate panel discussions at the Los […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 31, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies

  anxiety, Capitalism, consumer culture, Critique, Deepak Chopra, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Festival of Books, materialism, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, self-esteem, spirituality, teenagers

• Categorizing Fractured Fandom

  

  Defining Fractured Fandom According to the discipline of fan studies, at this point in history, being a fan is considered a positive for any individual. Being a fan helps people discover their identities, and to determine what they like and do not like. Being a fan helps people find friends, establish communities, and develop a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 12, 2015

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Digital Games, Fandom, Internet Studies

  antifans, anxiety, Avril Lavigne, blackface, bronies, canon, cosplay, creativity, cultural appropriation, DC, dialogue, Discourse, diversity, echo chambers, emasculation, empathy, fake geek girls, fanatics, fanboys, Fandom, fanon, fans, filter bubbles, fractured fandom, furries, GamerGate, gender, gender appropriateness, Gwen Stefani, hate-watching, hooligans, identity, ideology, insecurity, insularity, Julianne Hough, Katy Perry, legitimacy, love, Marvel, otaku, perspective-taking, privilege, producers, racism, reactionary, Respect, rivalries, Rule 34, sexism, sexualization, Shipping, Slash, snarking, sports, Star Trek, Star Wars, stereotypes, trolling, Twihards, Virtual Reality, yellowface