In this brief essay, I want to share an idea I have had about how the concept of audience interaction helps to define sports entertainment as existing…… Read more “Fourth Wall and Professional Wrestling”
Tag: Audience
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…… Read more “Making Sense of Cinema Anthology”
Fandom as Repeatedly Returning to What Matters Most
Being a fan can mean many different things to many different people. It may mean a person likes to collect memorabilia for a favorite sports team. It…… Read more “Fandom as Repeatedly Returning to What Matters Most”
In Defense of Fans via Fractured Fandom
In defense of fans and fandom, I want to make clear that I would not argue that fractured fandom happens all the time or involves a majority…… Read more “In Defense of Fans via Fractured Fandom”
An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies
This blog posts continues the dissection of my dissertation that I began by introducing the topic of gendered media engagings earlier this year. This post focuses on…… Read more “An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies”
The Study of Gendered Media Engagings (Part 3): Why It Matters
This is the third part of my dissertation’s first chapter. The first part was on defining gendered media engagings. The second part was on defining gender. Why studying…… Read more “The Study of Gendered Media Engagings (Part 3): Why It Matters”
On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been
I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity to organize these thoughts to provide the…… Read more “On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been”
The Whats versus Hows of Film Spectatorship
[What follows is a 2007 paper I wrote for a graduate level course on film studies. It was this paper that started me thinking about what I’ve…… Read more “The Whats versus Hows of Film Spectatorship”
The Story of The Dark Knight and Its Brethren
Back in the spring of 2007, like other Batman fans who loved Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, I was eagerly awaiting his follow-up, The Dark Knight. When the…… Read more “The Story of The Dark Knight and Its Brethren”
