Tag: fanfic

• WrestlePosium I Presentation

  

  Earlier this year I organized, ran, and presented at the inaugural WrestlePosium open online symposium for the Professional Wrestling Studies Association. My presentation concerned the work I have been doing looking at wrestling fans writing slash for the characters of Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. The entire presentation can viewed here. The other presentations from […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 18, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Professional Wrestling

  fan fiction, fan studies, Fandom, fanfic, Fanfiction, fans, Johnny Gargano, Professional Wrestling, Professional Wrestling Studies Association, PWSA, Slash, Tommaso Ciampa, WrestlePosium, WrestlePosiumI

• Fandom as Repeatedly Returning to What Matters Most

  

  Being a fan can mean many different things to many different people. It may mean a person likes to collect memorabilia for a favorite sports team. It may mean a group like to wear costumes and reenact an important event. It may mean individuals compete with one another to test their knowledge in trivia contests. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 25, 2015

  Fandom

  Audience, being a fan, bronies, C2E2, challenging fan studies, cosplay, Dervin, fan communities, fan studies, Fandom, fanfic, fans, foodies, fractured fandom, identity, politics, Pop culture, religion, repeatedly returning, Sense-Making Methodology, shippers, Slash, sports