Tag: Public discourse

• Podcasts for Public Intellectualism: The Pop Culture Lens and public discourse

  

  Written by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson for CSCA 2017. Our podcast The Pop Culture Lens emerged from a mutual desire to engage in more public intellectualism and public scholarship—to engage various publics with ideas from the humanities and social sciences to demonstrate how these abstractions can have concrete impacts on people’s everyday […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 15, 2018

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  media literacy, personal broadcasting, podcasting, Pop culture, pop culture studies, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public intellectuals, public scholars, The Pop Culture Lens

• Anti-Fans and Political Public Spheres

  

  Let me start off by saying we are not discussing “guilty pleasures” here. A guilty pleasure is when someone engages with something they know to be “bad” but they get pleasure out of doing it. So a person may feel ashamed or embarrassed about the engaging, and may do it in secret so that others […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 19, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  anti-fandom, anti-fans, Batman v Superman, cultural forum, democracy, for the lulz, guilty pleasures, hate-watching, just kidding, Men in Trees, Public discourse, public sphere, snarking

• Podcasts as Public Intellectualism

  

  In the thirty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard present an academic panel from the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference. On this panel, CarrieLynn is joined by Melody Hoffmann of the podcast Femnist Killjoys, PhD and Molly Turner of the podcast Swipe Right on Molly & Thomas. W. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 5, 2017

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  academics, empowerment, higher education, literacies, media literacy, podcasting, podcasts, promotion and tenure, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public scholarship, scholarship, The Pop Culture Lens

• An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day One

  

  This post is a deviation from my normal posts to this blog.  Instead of discussing research and ideas on various things media and pop culture, I am instead going to use this post to reflect on my week long excursion to a colloquium known as Collegium.  My position is with a Catholic university, and this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 21, 2014

  Communication Studies

  academic freedom, Catholic, Catholic institutions, Catholic university, Collegium, compassionate criticism, constructive criticism, creativity, criticism, curiosity, deconstruction, dialogue, hermeneutic of suspicion, hermeneutic of wonder, higher education, intellectualism, promotion, Public discourse, public intellectuals, science, strategy, tenure

• The Rise of Hentai in America, Part 3

  

  [This is the final part of the women studies paper I wrote on hentai.  You can find Part 1, on the definition of hentai, here, and Part 2, on the comparison of hentai to live action pornography, here.] While it may not be as prevalent or have the same tradition in our society that live […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 19, 2012

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Text Analysis

  anime, Discourse, hentai, live action pornography, lolicon, manga, normative, Pop culture, pornography, Public discourse, sexuality

• Buffy and Public Discourse on Women’s Health

  After Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended it’s television run, Joss Whedon inked a deal with Dark Horse Comics to continue the storyline in comic form.  What started with “Season 8” in 2007 has since become “Season 9”.  The current season finds Buffy in a world without magic, balancing living as a young, working gal in San Francisco […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 2, 2012

  Fandom, Industry Analysis Studies, Superheroes

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Contraception, Feminism, Pop culture, Public discourse