Tag: nerds

• Over 9000 with Dragon Ball Z

  

  For the fifty-sixth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard are joined by friend of the podcast, and Patreon supporter, Dave Stanley to discuss the classic anime series, Dragon Ball Z. The trio discuss the role Dragon Ball Z had in helping Japanese anime and manga become more mainstream in the United States, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 15, 2020

  Anime/Manga

  Dragon Ball Z, fan controversies, fandubs, fansubs, Generation Y, manga, nerds, online fandom, otaku

• 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

• Problems with Perceptions in Fandom

  

  Part of the process of understanding the phenomenon of fractured fandom is to gather stories that thematically reveal its nature, such as my ongoing analysis of how My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans reacted to the feature film Equestria Girls and its soon-to-be sequel Rainbow Rocks.  The more stories we can gather, then the more […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 14, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies

  attitudes, beliefs, C2E2, cognitive dissonance, cosplay, cultural psychology, fake geek girl, Fandom, fans, feelings, geekdom, geeks, gender appropriateness, imposter syndrome, interpretations, Men, misogynistic extremism, misogyny, misperceptions, nerds, perceptions, Psychology, Sense-making, sexism, sexist, sexualization, social psychology, women

• Female Fans From the Beginning

  I’m late in putting this out there, but it’s worth watching. This is a video from a Star Trek convention from 1973: that’s before the motion picture that reignited the franchise. So these are the true believers, those who followed the television series, and perhaps were starting with the short lived animated series. These were […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 8, 2011

  Fandom, Uncategorized

  fans, geeks, gender, nerds, Star Trek, women