Tag: expectations

• Fourth Wall and Professional Wrestling

  

  In this brief essay, I want to share an idea I have had about how the concept of audience interaction helps to define sports entertainment as existing at the intersection of sports and entertainment. Audience interaction with content (what I have written about here as content interactivity) is the idea that the audience member (either […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 21, 2016

  Professional Wrestling, Uncategorized

  Audience, breaking the fourth wall, co-construction, convergence, convergent, crowd noise, expectations, football, fourth wall, identities, improv, interaction, kayfabe, narrative, participation, Professional Wrestling, text, theater

• Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players’ preferences

  This three-part post comes from a 2007 International Communication Association conference paper.  The research was an attempt to understand if gender was as large of a factor in player’s experiences and preferences as specific situations of playing digital games. INTRODUCTION             The digital game industry has become a powerful media and cultural force over the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 23, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  Brenda Dervin, communication technology, expectations, game design, game features, game playing, gaming preferences, gaming situations, gender, gratifications, situational, Situationality