Tag: critical 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

• 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

• Equality Studies: A Call to Action

  I respect the work that has been done by critical scholars to point out the ways in which people have been created/oppressed by the social/cultural conditions into which they were born.   However, much work in qualitative studies remains focused on how such conditions creates differences in how people see themselves and each other; in […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 9, 2011

  Audience/Reception Studies, Uncategorized

  critical studies, equality, gender studies, media use and effects, Psychology, sociodemographics