Tag: cross-generational

• When Audiences Collide: The Fractured Fandom of My Little Pony

  

  This post comes from a presentation I will be giving at the Popular Culture Association conference in Chicago on April 18th, 2014.  This presentation comes from the beginning of the research I am doing with the help of my research assistant, Elizabeth Robinson.  It is also an expanded version of the presentation I gave at […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 16, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  Applejack, audiences, bronies, Brony, cross-gendered, cross-generational, Equestria Girls, fake fan girl, Fluttershy, fractured fandom, girlie cartoon, MLP:FIM, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Pinkie Pie, positioning theory, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, target market, Twilight Sparkle