Tag: Brenda Dervin

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Women self-identifying as digital game addicts: Their interpretations of power

  

  [This paper comes from 2007 and was completed for a qualitative methodology course at Ohio State University under the amazing Patti Lather. She encouraged us to try different methods of communication research results; so I did a comic book, which you can see here.] What is digital game addiction? A number of approaches, theories, and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 27, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  addiction, addicts, Brenda Dervin, causes of addiction, Cognitive, computer games, Dance Dance Revolution, digital games, disempowerment, empowerment, flow of power, Foucault, gaming, morality, Patti Lather, physiological, power, Sense-Making Methodology, Snood, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Cart, Video games, women

• 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 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 a model I used in my dissertation to understand the array of media studies conducted to investigate the ways in which gender is involved in how people engage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 21, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies

  application, appropriation, Audience, bedroom studies, Brenda Dervin, Brown, creation, critical studies, Cultural Studies, Decoding, Encoding, encoding/decoding model, femininity, film studies, gender, gendered media engagings, ideology, interpretation, masculinity, Media, media effects, Media engaging, Media products, media studies, media texts, messages, Mulvey, perception, reception studies, Recoding, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, spectatorship, Staiger, Steele, Stuart Hall, Uses and Gratifications

• Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players’ preferences

  This three-part post comes from a 2007 International Communication Association conference paper.  The research was an attempt to understand if gender was as large of a factor in player’s experiences and preferences as specific situations of playing digital games. INTRODUCTION             The digital game industry has become a powerful media and cultural force over the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 23, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  Brenda Dervin, communication technology, expectations, game design, game features, game playing, gaming preferences, gaming situations, gender, gratifications, situational, Situationality