Tag: power

• Media Engaging(s): Or, How I Learned To Be Both/And in an Either/Or Discipline

  

  This essay contains an early draft of what I ultimately wrote for the Participations special issue on “media engagement” as a concept in audience studies. This essay contains some good ideas that were no where near ready for publishing. I may also not have the time to come back to them, as I have been […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 25, 2021

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  agency, audience studies, Communication Studies, critical studies, Cultural Studies, fan studies, human-computer interaction, media effects, media engagings, media studies, media uses and effects, minutia, objectivity, phenomenological, power, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology, Situationality, structure, subjectivity, talk-aloud, transjectivity, Uses and Gratifications

• A Communication Toolbox for Communication Literacy

  

  The following is an excerpt from my book Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities. To read all of the information, you will need to get the book, either from a seller or your local library. [Do not cite this blog post as it is an abridged version of what appears in the book. All […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 14, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  communication, communication gaps, communication literacy, communication situations, communication skills, communication toolbox, contentious communication, dialogue, fractured fandom, listening, monologue, no-logue, positive communication, power, questions, Respect, Situationality, stiutations

• V for Vendetta and Resisting Fascism

  

  In the thirty-ninth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I present a special episode as they compare and contrast the graphic novel V for Vendetta and its film adaptation. In this episode, we discussed how the two versions of the story reflected on the social, cultural, and historical periods in which […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 10, 2017

  Comics Studies, Film Studies, Superheroes

  anarchy, Bush, fascism, fear, nuclear war, oppression, panopticon, power, resistance, social media, superhero, surveillance, terrorism, Thatcher, Trump, V for Vendetta, war

• 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

• Pop Culture Lens on They Live

  

  In the twenty-third episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher and I welcome back friend of the podcast Joe Belfeuil to discuss John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic They Live and how the film seems as relevant if not more now. The short story the film is based on can be found on this website. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 25, 2016

  Communication Studies, Film Studies, Text Analysis

  agency, Aliens, Bubblegum, Bush, Clinton, conspiracy theories, cultural hegemony, Foucault, Giddens, Hegemony, income inequality, John Carpenter, Keith David, knowledge, Meg Foster, New World Order, oligarchy, power, Roddy Piper, Ronald Reagan, structure, They Live, Trump

• The Dark Side of Fandom

  

  Last fall the call went out from the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (aka C2E2) for proposed panels for the 2016 convention. I had just been part of a very successful discussion at an academic conference that considered the problems, tensions, fractures that fans have been facing, online and offline, for years. But that was […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 11, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  academics, anti-fandom, anti-fans, appropriateness, C2E2, Chicago, Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, class, dark side, dialogue, fake fan girls, fake geek girls, fan-scholars, Fandom, fratured fandom, gender, harassment, hierarchy, identity, infighting, policing, power, queer, race, schema, shaming

• 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

• Women self-identifying as digital game addicts: Their interpretations of power

  

  [This paper comes from 2007 and was completed for a qualitative methodology course at Ohio State University under the amazing Patti Lather. She encouraged us to try different methods of communication research results; so I did a comic book, which you can see here.] What is digital game addiction? A number of approaches, theories, and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 27, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  addiction, addicts, Brenda Dervin, causes of addiction, Cognitive, computer games, Dance Dance Revolution, digital games, disempowerment, empowerment, flow of power, Foucault, gaming, morality, Patti Lather, physiological, power, Sense-Making Methodology, Snood, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Cart, Video games, women

• The Last Exorcism Part II: Not Really Real

  

  In our last post, we discussed the first found footage exorcist cinema, The Last Exorcism.  What we have found interesting with this latest series of exorcism cinema is this desire to bring to the forefront the idea that such cases of exorcism are real, either through the filming techniques or the demonstration of being inspired by […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 7, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies

  Abalam, church, demonic, demons, exorcism, exorcist, found footage, horror, innocence, patriarchy, possession, power, realism, sex, sexuality, sisterhood, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, voodoo