Tag: Internet

• Fractured Fandom in Online Spaces

  

  Fractured Fandom in Online Spaces: Problematic Communication in Communication-Inscribed Places This blog post represents a presentation I gave at the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference, and is based on research I am doing on my Fractured Fandom project. This project is an online self-interview study conducted in 2015. The larger project is being written […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 2, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  communication, communication problems, dialogue, fan studies, Fandom, fractured fandom, interaction, Internet, online spaces, power

• Updating the Obstinate Audience

  

  [This post comes from my candidacy exam, in which I was asked to respond to a classic article: Bauer, Raymond. 1964. “The obstinate audience: The influence process from the point of view of social communication.” American Psychologist 19: 319-328] Which, if any, issues have been dealt with and/or resolved within the field of communication? Bauer’s […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 7, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  Audience activity, audience studies, audiences, Dallas Smythe, ethnography, Internet, interpretive, lifeworlds, mass audience, mass communication, media effects, media industry, Obstinate Audience, phenomenology, Raymond Bauer, Reception, Uses and Gratifications

• ECW on The Pop Culture Lens

  

  In the thirty-fourth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I welcome friend of the podcast Ryan Schriml to discuss the innovative nature and legacy of Extreme Championship Wrestling — or, ECW! ECW! ECW! In this episode, our discussion focuses on how the innovations of Paul Heyman and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 17, 2017

  Internet Studies, Professional Wrestling

  AAW, convergence, ECW, Extreme Champsionship Wrestling, federations, grunge, Internet, internet culture, Lucha Underground, Paul Heyman, pro-wrestling, Professional Wrestling, PWG, Raven, ROH, smarks, Tommy Dreamer, WCW, wrestling, WWE, WWF

• Virtual World Television and Interactive Television

  

  This is the end result of the work I have been doing with Pooky Amsterdam. This paper is the write-up of the presentation Avatars, Audiences and Interactive Television. I do not think there is enough in this paper to make pursuing publication worthwhile, but I do hope to use the categorizations of the three types […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 16, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Television Studies, Virtual Worlds

  “television-as-content”, “television-as-technology”, access interactivity, agency, audiences, broadcasting, content interactivity, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, power, prosumers, social interactivity, Television, User-generated content, virtual world television, Virtual worlds

• Advice for Children on Social Media

  

  My first piece of advice is to focus on teaching your children how to be respectful when they communicate and engage with people, online but also in person. This means being aware of not just what you are saying but how you are saying it, and that how is immensely important in social media with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 7, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Internet Studies, Uncategorized

  addiction, Children, cyberbullying, fear of missing out, harassment, Internet, sexting, social media

• On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been

  I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity to organize these thoughts to provide the beginning of a structure for how to organize my research, past, present and future. For awhile now, I’ve been convinced that how the new media has affected our […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 20, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Audience, Audience activity, audience-as-consumer, broadcasting, digital media technologies, digital revolution, encoding-decoding, Fandom, Gameplay marketing, gender, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, interpretive interactivity, media history, minutia reception, new media, nichecasting, online fan communities, passivity, physical interactivity, popular culture, Sense-making, transgressing, Uses and Gratifications, virtual world television, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

• The Story of The Dark Knight and Its Brethren

  Back in the spring of 2007, like other Batman fans who loved Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, I was eagerly awaiting his follow-up, The Dark Knight. When the “I Believe in Harvey Dent” website went live in May, I was there with others. However, not long after the original website went live, some digitally scrawled graffiti […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 17, 2011

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Industry Analysis Studies, Virtual Worlds

  Audience, Audience activity, Co-optation, Fandom, Gameplay, Internet, Marketing, Motion pictures, Television