Tag: policing boundaries

• Trauma and Fractured Fandom

  

  This blog post contains my presentation at MPCA/ACA 2019 from our panel on mental health and fandom. This presentation is the first step in a deeper analysis of my fractured fandom work to understand the traumatic experiences fans expressed in their self-interviews. “fear fearfearfearfear feeling hella unsafe”: The Trauma of Fractured Fandoms As a brief […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 25, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom

  anxiety, Brenda Dervin, communication problems, defensiveness, Depression, difference of opinion, fan community, fanatacism, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, harassment, insecurity, mental health, mental health issues, miscommunication, policing boundaries, power dynamics, power plays, rationalization, Sense-Making Methodology, stereotypes, stigma, stress, trauma

• San Diego Comic Con

  

  In a first, the forty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast finds friend of the podcast Joan Miller (@a_wild_acafan) joining Christopher Olson and myself to discuss the importance of the grand-daddy fan convention, San Diego Comic Con. In this episode, the trio discuss how SDCC came to be the pop cultural juggernaut that it […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 22, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Industry Analysis Studies

  Comic books, comic conventions, convergence, convergence culture, economic convergence, exploitation, fan conventions, fan exploitation, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, gatekeeping, participatory culture, policing boundaries, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC

• The Fractured Fandom Book

  

  My project all started with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In 2010 a new animated series was released based on the old toy line (I had these toys as a kid). What amazed everyone is that a toy line and series meant for girls started to develop a following of adult men, who took […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 19, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  bronies, communicatings, cyberassault, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, dialogue, disengage, fake geek girl, fan harassment, fractured fandom, gaps, harassment, listening, My Little Pony, policing boundaries, power dynamics