These thoughts were produced at the end of my time on this project, in May of 2012, for the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University. These…… Read more “Reviewing the Virtual Worlds Entertainment Study”
Tag: Sense-Making Methodology
Sense-Making and Avatars Research Proposal
This post contains a research proposal I wrote in 2008 for a project to involve virtual worlds that I never completed. This proposal would be changed to…… Read more “Sense-Making and Avatars Research Proposal”
Fandom as Repeatedly Returning to What Matters Most
Being a fan can mean many different things to many different people. It may mean a person likes to collect memorabilia for a favorite sports team. It…… Read more “Fandom as Repeatedly Returning to What Matters Most”
Metaphors for making sense of virtual worlds
The following paper comes from a presentation given at ECREA in 2010 and at NCA in 2011 (the version of which can be found here on the…… Read more “Metaphors for making sense of 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…… Read more “Women self-identifying as digital game addicts: Their interpretations of power”
My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies
Along with my thoughts on the encoding-decoding-recoding model, what follows comes from my dissertation on gendered media engagings and describes how I consider the fundamental elements of…… Read more “My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies”
An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies
This blog posts continues the dissection of my dissertation that I began by introducing the topic of gendered media engagings earlier this year. This post focuses on…… Read more “An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies”
Men and Their Engagements with Stereotypically Feminine Media Products
The following is an excerpt from the paper I will be presenting at the 2014 Central States Communication Association Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This paper presents a…… Read more “Men and Their Engagements with Stereotypically Feminine Media Products”
Virtual Worlds – Sense-making and Innovation
The team from the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark were filmed giving talks about their varied and unique research projects — about the…… Read more “Virtual Worlds – Sense-making and Innovation”
The Metaphors of Virtual Worlds
How do people make sense of a novel situation, such as engaging with a media product they’ve never used before? If that media product is a virtual…… Read more “The Metaphors of Virtual Worlds”
