Tag: MCU

• Disney+, the Fan Industrial Complex, and Star Wars

  

  I love this term: Fan Industrial Complex. Chris thinks he heard it from someone else, so I will need to investigate it. Because from a media ecology perspective, it’s very useful. That’s what we have now with online mediated fan-producer networks. The technologies and economic systems require a symbiosis between more ardent fans and producers, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 20, 2021

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Film Studies, Internet Studies, pop culture studies

  convergence culture, Disney+, Fan Industrial Complex, fan-producer relationships, Fandom, fandom ecology, fans, Marvel, MCU, media ecology, producers, Rise of the Skywalker, social media platforms, Star Wars, transmedia

• The Pop Culture Lens: Episode on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Fandom

  

  On a special episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss a subject that has been one we have debated numerous times in our private lives and has become one that I have been focusing on as a research project: fandom, is it good or bad? We begin the conversation with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 15, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  “television-as-content”, C2E2, Chip Zdarsky, comic industry, Comics, culture wars, Dark Horse, DC, fan art, fan communities, fan fiction, fan studies, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, GamerGate, identity, Image, insularity, Marvel Comics, MCU, Other Space, Paul Feig, Sad Puppies, Sex Criminals, Valiant, walled gardens