Tag: phenomenology

• 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

• On Representing Our Subjects/Participants/Informants/People

  

  One final old reflection to share, that appears more questions than answers, but, as with the previous one, shows me wrestling with how do to research in a way that validly represents those that I study. These questions are both why I love to study people, but also why I understand the frustration of studying […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 21, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies

  critical theory, Culture, Epistemology, hermeneutics, Methodology, ontology, perspective, phenomenology, Psychology, reception studies, society, truth, validity

• 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