Tag: communication problems

• 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

• Echo Chambers and Fandom

  

  Okay, first, let’s talk about echo chambers. You may have heard this term, especially since the 2016 presidential election. In media studies, an echo chamber is a community, usually one that is online, where the members of that community all have the same interests, values, and beliefs. This group of like-minded individuals talk with one […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 9, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom

  communication, communication problems, concertgoers, defamation, dialogue, difference, Donald Trump, echo chambers, ethnography, fan communities, Fans.com, fractured fandom, Infield Chatter, interaction, MLBPA, players, polarization, social networks, superfans

• Fractured Fandom in Online Spaces

  

  Fractured Fandom in Online Spaces: Problematic Communication in Communication-Inscribed Places This blog post represents a presentation I gave at the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference, and is based on research I am doing on my Fractured Fandom project. This project is an online self-interview study conducted in 2015. The larger project is being written […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 2, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  communication, communication problems, dialogue, fan studies, Fandom, fractured fandom, interaction, Internet, online spaces, power