Tag: ideology

• The Four Paradigms in Spiral Form

  

  Subtitle: A positivistically constructed model to critique dominant design with a postmodern flair This was a group project from a class with Patti Lather at OSU in 2005 that I completed with Carrie Hung, Hana Kang, and Yongfang Zhang. I look at it now and think it’s so twee! In looking at the four research […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 14, 2021

  Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Higher Education, Research Method(ology)s

  constructivism, constructivist, critical, critical theory, deconstructivism, deconstructivist, discipline, ideology, interpretation, metaphors, paradigmatic dialogue, paradigms, phenomenology, philosophy, positivism, positivist, post-modernism

• Coca-Cola and American Identity

  

  In this episode, the co-hosts address the history of Coca-Cola and how it has come to embody American ideals and ideologies around the world. Along the way, they consider how important the formation of corporations was to the creation of the United States as a global superpower. For those interested in marketing, they discuss how […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 15, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Text Analysis

  American identity, brands, Coca-Cola, corporation, cultural imperialism, Globalization, iconicity, ideology, Marketing, soft sell

• Twitter Dialogues

  

  I just learned that Storify is going away in May 2018, and I had been using the platform to store tweets for my Fractured Fandom project, such as this list that helped me curate stories for my research: Stories of and Thoughts on Fractured Fandom As part of this process, I also engaged in various […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 23, 2017

  Communication Studies, Fandom

  conflict, dialogue, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, GamerGate, identity, identity politics, ideology, MRA, Twitter

• 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

• The Dangerous Ideology of Trump

  

  Tom Brokaw, with his years of experience and expertise, had this wise words to say about the ideas of presidential candidate Donald Trump. And I want to take a moment to address something as a communication scholar and as a human being. http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=nn_tbr_Muslim%20Ban%20Essay_151208 First, as a communication scholar trying to teach people to become better […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 11, 2015

  Communication Studies

  Donald Trump, humanity, ideology, peace, stereotypes, Tom Brokaw

• Categorizing Fractured Fandom

  

  Defining Fractured Fandom According to the discipline of fan studies, at this point in history, being a fan is considered a positive for any individual. Being a fan helps people discover their identities, and to determine what they like and do not like. Being a fan helps people find friends, establish communities, and develop a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 12, 2015

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Digital Games, Fandom, Internet Studies

  antifans, anxiety, Avril Lavigne, blackface, bronies, canon, cosplay, creativity, cultural appropriation, DC, dialogue, Discourse, diversity, echo chambers, emasculation, empathy, fake geek girls, fanatics, fanboys, Fandom, fanon, fans, filter bubbles, fractured fandom, furries, GamerGate, gender, gender appropriateness, Gwen Stefani, hate-watching, hooligans, identity, ideology, insecurity, insularity, Julianne Hough, Katy Perry, legitimacy, love, Marvel, otaku, perspective-taking, privilege, producers, racism, reactionary, Respect, rivalries, Rule 34, sexism, sexualization, Shipping, Slash, snarking, sports, Star Trek, Star Wars, stereotypes, trolling, Twihards, Virtual Reality, yellowface

• An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies

  

  This blog posts continues the dissection of my dissertation that I began by introducing the topic of gendered media engagings earlier this year. This post focuses on a model I used in my dissertation to understand the array of media studies conducted to investigate the ways in which gender is involved in how people engage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 21, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies

  application, appropriation, Audience, bedroom studies, Brenda Dervin, Brown, creation, critical studies, Cultural Studies, Decoding, Encoding, encoding/decoding model, femininity, film studies, gender, gendered media engagings, ideology, interpretation, masculinity, Media, media effects, Media engaging, Media products, media studies, media texts, messages, Mulvey, perception, reception studies, Recoding, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, spectatorship, Staiger, Steele, Stuart Hall, Uses and Gratifications