Tag: desensitization

• The Pop Culture Lens Discusses Videodrome

  

  In the twenty-ninth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and myself welcome the Halloween season and friend of the podcast Salvatore DiSalvatore to discuss the body horror film from David Cronenberg, Videodrome (1983). In this episode, the conversation considers how prescient and thus still relevant this thirty-three year-old […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 17, 2016

  Film Studies, Internet Studies

  abjection, body horror, Carolyn Marvin, censorship, David Cronenberg, desensitization, hyperreality, Marshall McLuhan, misandry, misogyny, Neil Postman, new media, over-stimulation, Robert Putnam, sensationalism, Sherry Turkle, simulacrum, The Medium is the Message, Tom Standage, Videodrome

• The Golem’s Creator: How Communication Influences Life

  Back in 1997, so seemingly long ago, I took a class at UW-Madison that turned me from a pre-med student into a double major of communication arts and psychology that would eventually lead me to become the scholar I am today.  For this class, we had to write a paper about the communication theories we […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 12, 2013

  Communication Studies

  Agenda-Setting Theory, communication, cultivation theory, desensitization, excitation transfer theory, Expectancy Violations Theory, Feminism, gendered communication, group communication, groupthink, leadership, mass communication, mean world syndrome, Media, non-verbal, norm of reciprocity, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, self-disclosure, social learning theory, Symbolic Interactionism