Tag: geeks

• Problems with Perceptions in Fandom

  

  Part of the process of understanding the phenomenon of fractured fandom is to gather stories that thematically reveal its nature, such as my ongoing analysis of how My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans reacted to the feature film Equestria Girls and its soon-to-be sequel Rainbow Rocks.  The more stories we can gather, then the more […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 14, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies

  attitudes, beliefs, C2E2, cognitive dissonance, cosplay, cultural psychology, fake geek girl, Fandom, fans, feelings, geekdom, geeks, gender appropriateness, imposter syndrome, interpretations, Men, misogynistic extremism, misogyny, misperceptions, nerds, perceptions, Psychology, Sense-making, sexism, sexist, sexualization, social psychology, women

• Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation

  A long time ago, when I first started graduate school, one of my primary research interests was the role the media plays in forming people’s identities.  At the time, I researched everything I could on the psychological and sociological underpinnings of identity formation, to try to understand how the media could be involved in this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 29, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  adolescence, adolescents, druggies, geeks, genetics, Identification, identify formation, identity, jocks, Media use, Sense-making, situation, social/cultural, socialization, teenagers, Uses and Gratifications

• Female Fans From the Beginning

  I’m late in putting this out there, but it’s worth watching. This is a video from a Star Trek convention from 1973: that’s before the motion picture that reignited the franchise. So these are the true believers, those who followed the television series, and perhaps were starting with the short lived animated series. These were […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 8, 2011

  Fandom, Uncategorized

  fans, geeks, gender, nerds, Star Trek, women