Tag: identity construction

• A Subject by Choice: The Agency of Fans

  I wrote this reflection paper back in 2007 to consider how theories about subjectivation occurs in fandom. Which is to say, how fans of something willingly become identified with that thing they are a fan of. Subjectivation would argue that people passively become something through external ideological forces — that they have no say in […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 24, 2016

  Fandom

  Althusser, Butler, Fandom, fans, Foucault, fractured fandom, Identification, identity, identity construction, ideology, subject, subjection, subjectivation

• Cultivation theory, media socialization and adolescents’ identity formation

  

  (Originally a class paper written in 2003, with the full paper, including references, found here.  Related thinking on this topic can be found here.) When a farmer plants a field of corn, he must provide several environmental conditions to ensure it grows. There must be ample sunlight, water, and fertilizer. The temperature should neither be […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 6, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies

  adolescents, cultivation theory, Culture, George Gerbner, identity, identity construction, mass media, media effects, Media use, peer networks, peers, social media, social networks, socialization, sociocultural, teenagers, Television, theory