Tag: group communication

• Pop Culture Lens: Dungeons and Dragons

  

  In the twenty-fourth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I welcome friend of the podcast, psychologist in training, and long-time gamer Steve Discont to discuss the classic table-top role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. In this episode, we each recall our experiences with role-playing games, from Dungeons and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 13, 2016

  Digital Games, Fandom

  American fan, communal storytelling, Dave Arneson, Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy, gamification, Gary Gygax, GenCon, group communication, imaginative literacy, nerds, role-playing, RPGs, Satanic panic, scapegoat, social constructivism, Tolkien

• 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