Tag: Sense-Making Methodology

• 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

• Why Is Sense-Making Methodology Methodological?

  

  This is from a class paper I wrote for Brenda Dervin in 2006 at Ohio State University.           The most efficient and useful way I can conceive of answering this question is by exploring it in relation to my phenomenon of interest, fandom.  Fandom has been studied using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, as a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 10, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  audience studies, Brenda Dervin, fan studies, media studies, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology

• Transjective Media Studies and Reciprocal Determinism

  

  Yep, that’s right — I’m being one of those academics. Engaging in neologisms to make a name for myself. But what I am working through here is an idea for a book project, and I’d love peoples’ comments to help me to do so. Redefining Media Studies A medium is a technology for the storage, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 23, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Film Studies, Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies, pop culture studies, Television Studies, Virtual Worlds

  Brenda Dervin, media engagings, Media products, media studies, media theory, reciprocal determinism, Sense-Making Methodology, transjective

• 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

• Work In Progress: Applying SMM to Fan Studies

  

  This draft comes from a presentation given at the 2018 MPCA/ACA conference in Indianapolis. Introduction Communication scholar Brenda Dervin created the Sense-Making Methodology as a methodological approach for conducting interviews that draws on metatheoretical concepts such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the humanistic approach to psychology. Since its formulation, Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) has been utilized across […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 10, 2019

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

  Brenda Dervin, fan studies, Fandom, fans, Methodology, repeatedly returning, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology

• Being Methodological in Audience Studies: Applying Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology

  

  I’ve shared in previous posts (here and here) thoughts from my PhD candidacy exam. In this post, I share my thoughts on being methodological when it comes to doing audience studies. As with the other posts, this essay was originally written in 2007. 1. What does being methodological mean? To paraphrase myself from an earlier […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2019

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

  audience studies, Brenda Dervin, ethnographic, fan studies, film studies, media effects, media studies, methodological, Methodology, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology, uses and gratfications

• Defining Fandom as Repeatedly Returning

  

  I presented this idea, based on previous work, at the MPCA/ACA conference of October 2018. I present it here for us to have a conversation about what it means to be a fan and how we define what a fan is.

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 3, 2018

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  being a fan, challenging fan studies, Defining, definitions, fan identity, fan studies, Fandom, repeatedly returning, Sense-Making Methodology, SMM

• Reviewing the Virtual Worlds Entertainment Study

  

  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 thoughts involve my reflection on the project that I completed as part of the research group, and do not reflect the thoughts of anyone else involved with the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 5, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Virtual Worlds

  City of Heroes, digital games, gaming virtual worlds, interactivity, interface, interpretive, interpretive interactivity, media content, media product, media technology, metaphors, physical interactivity, Second Life, Sense-Making Methodology, sense-making strategies, social virtual words, Superheroes, Virtual worlds, Wii

• 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 become the main experiment I did with the Roskilde University Virtual Worlds Research Group. If anyone is interested in building off this proposal, then please contact me. Sense-making […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 7, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Gendering Robots, Virtual Worlds

  avatars, experiments, focus groups, information-seeking, interviews, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, tasks, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• 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 may mean a group like to wear costumes and reenact an important event. It may mean individuals compete with one another to test their knowledge in trivia contests. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 25, 2015

  Fandom

  Audience, being a fan, bronies, C2E2, challenging fan studies, cosplay, Dervin, fan communities, fan studies, Fandom, fanfic, fans, foodies, fractured fandom, identity, politics, Pop culture, religion, repeatedly returning, Sense-Making Methodology, shippers, Slash, sports