Tag: audience studies

• 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

• Why Is Sense-Making Methodology Methodological?

  

  This is from a class paper I wrote for Brenda Dervin in 2006 at Ohio State University.           The most efficient and useful way I can conceive of answering this question is by exploring it in relation to my phenomenon of interest, fandom.  Fandom has been studied using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, as a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 10, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  audience studies, Brenda Dervin, fan studies, media studies, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology

• Gender Schematic Men and the Somatotypes They Perceive: Influences on attraction and recall

  

  The following is the first original empirical research project that I completed for my psychology research class at UW-Madison as an undergrad. I took the class at summer and went around asking men to participate in the study about how gender schema impacts perception of the female form in advertisements, making it my first audience […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 29, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies

  advertising, audience studies, body types, gender, gender schema, perception, Psychology, reception studies, research, Sense-making, somatotypes, undergraduate research, UW-Madison

• 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

• Updating the Obstinate Audience

  

  [This post comes from my candidacy exam, in which I was asked to respond to a classic article: Bauer, Raymond. 1964. “The obstinate audience: The influence process from the point of view of social communication.” American Psychologist 19: 319-328] Which, if any, issues have been dealt with and/or resolved within the field of communication? Bauer’s […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 7, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  Audience activity, audience studies, audiences, Dallas Smythe, ethnography, Internet, interpretive, lifeworlds, mass audience, mass communication, media effects, media industry, Obstinate Audience, phenomenology, Raymond Bauer, Reception, Uses and Gratifications

• Making Sense of Cinema Anthology

  

  Edited by Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and myself, Bloomsbury Academic will release Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship on February 25, 2016. Making Sense of Cinema is an anthology collecting empirical studies that display different methods for studying real film spectators engaging with real films. Film studies has […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 18, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Film Studies

  Audience, audience studies, Darren Waldron, Decoding, eye-tracking, film scholarship, film spectator, film spectators, film spectatorship, film studies, film text, Films, interpretation, Martin Barker, mass media, media studies, methodologies, Motion pictures, movies, Qualitative Methodology, Reception, reception studies, Sense-making

• My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies

  

  Along with my thoughts on the encoding-decoding-recoding model, what follows comes from my dissertation on gendered media engagings and describes how I consider the fundamental elements of media reception and audience studies. What are media products?       Media products are the technologies, channels and contents that constitute our understanding of what is ‘the media’. They are […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 13, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Adaptation, audience studies, Brenda Dervin, critical studies, Cultural Studies, media channels, media content, media effects, media engagings, Media products, media reception, media technologies, Media use, reception studies, Roman Ingarden, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Uses and Gratifications, Wolfgang Iser

• An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Two

  

  Day 2: Sunday, June 22nd On the topic of mass… I am still uncomfortable joining in on the spiritual sessions and Catholic Eucharist ceremonies that are scheduled for this colloquium.  I feel like an intruder, an interloper, a negative presence.  There is nothing that anyone here has said or done that has made me feel […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 22, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom

  Anointing the Sick, Art, art history, audience studies, audiences, Baptism, behold, beholder, beholding, Catholic, Catholicism, Collegium, Confirmation, dialogue, divine, divinity, Doctor Who, ethnography, Eucharist, fan studies, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, God, Holy Orders, Marriage, media reception, Nature, observation, reception studies, Reconciliation, Relationships, rituals, sacraments, sacred, science, Seinfeld, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Big Lebowski, tradition, Twilight

• 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