Tag: Defining

• Defining Fandom as Repeatedly Returning

  

  I presented this idea, based on previous work, at the MPCA/ACA conference of October 2018. I present it here for us to have a conversation about what it means to be a fan and how we define what a fan is.

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 3, 2018

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  being a fan, challenging fan studies, Defining, definitions, fan identity, fan studies, Fandom, repeatedly returning, Sense-Making Methodology, SMM

• Superheroes Around the World

  Last fall, I was invited to talk at a science fiction convention in Copenhagen, Denmark, called Fantasticon.  My friend helped to organize the convention, and he knew I had spoken at other conventions in the United States.  When he asked what I wanted to talk about, I decided to go with a topic I had […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2011

  Fandom, Superheroes

  Adaptation, Defining, Fandom, Globalization, Sense-making, Superheroes, Transcultural