Tag: Sense-making

• Gender Schematic Men and the Somatotypes They Perceive: Influences on attraction and recall

  

  The following is the first original empirical research project that I completed for my psychology research class at UW-Madison as an undergrad. I took the class at summer and went around asking men to participate in the study about how gender schema impacts perception of the female form in advertisements, making it my first audience […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 29, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies

  advertising, audience studies, body types, gender, gender schema, perception, Psychology, reception studies, research, Sense-making, somatotypes, undergraduate research, UW-Madison

• 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

• Gendering Robots: A Class Discussion

  

  The next research project I hope to work on looks at how people make sense of robots. I am particularly interested in how people apply gendered assumptions and attributions to robots or artificial agents, and how apply those assumptions then impact how people engage with robots. In a sense, robots have become another medium as […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 20, 2016

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Gendering Robots

  AI, Artificial Agents, Big Hero 6, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, communication, Ex Machina, gender, gender stereotypes, Metropolis, robots, Sense-making, Short Circuit, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, The Forbidden Planet, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Jetsons, Wall-E

• 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

• Making Sense of Cinema Anthology

  

  Edited by Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and myself, Bloomsbury Academic will release Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship on February 25, 2016. Making Sense of Cinema is an anthology collecting empirical studies that display different methods for studying real film spectators engaging with real films. Film studies has […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 18, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Film Studies

  Audience, audience studies, Darren Waldron, Decoding, eye-tracking, film scholarship, film spectator, film spectators, film spectatorship, film studies, film text, Films, interpretation, Martin Barker, mass media, media studies, methodologies, Motion pictures, movies, Qualitative Methodology, Reception, reception studies, Sense-making

• 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 blog). I submitted this paper to a journal, but never did anything with it after it was rejected. I still think there are interesting ideas in the paper, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 21, 2015

  Virtual Worlds

  City of Heroes, design, meaning-making, metaphors, MMORPGs, MMOs, Roskilde University, RPGs, Second Life, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Virtual worlds

• 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 media reception and audience studies. What are media products?       Media products are the technologies, channels and contents that constitute our understanding of what is ‘the media’. They are […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 13, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Adaptation, audience studies, Brenda Dervin, critical studies, Cultural Studies, media channels, media content, media effects, media engagings, Media products, media reception, media technologies, Media use, reception studies, Roman Ingarden, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Uses and Gratifications, Wolfgang Iser

• 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 a model I used in my dissertation to understand the array of media studies conducted to investigate the ways in which gender is involved in how people engage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 21, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies

  application, appropriation, Audience, bedroom studies, Brenda Dervin, Brown, creation, critical studies, Cultural Studies, Decoding, Encoding, encoding/decoding model, femininity, film studies, gender, gendered media engagings, ideology, interpretation, masculinity, Media, media effects, Media engaging, Media products, media studies, media texts, messages, Mulvey, perception, reception studies, Recoding, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, spectatorship, Staiger, Steele, Stuart Hall, Uses and Gratifications

• Problems with Perceptions in Fandom

  

  Part of the process of understanding the phenomenon of fractured fandom is to gather stories that thematically reveal its nature, such as my ongoing analysis of how My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans reacted to the feature film Equestria Girls and its soon-to-be sequel Rainbow Rocks.  The more stories we can gather, then the more […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 14, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies

  attitudes, beliefs, C2E2, cognitive dissonance, cosplay, cultural psychology, fake geek girl, Fandom, fans, feelings, geekdom, geeks, gender appropriateness, imposter syndrome, interpretations, Men, misogynistic extremism, misogyny, misperceptions, nerds, perceptions, Psychology, Sense-making, sexism, sexist, sexualization, social psychology, women

• The Oddness of Old Comic Books

  (This post originally appeared on Clearance Bin Review.  I am reposting it here given my interest in studying the morality of superheroes as well as my interest in understanding how people make sense of texts as they engage with them.  I also believe there is something to be said about the importance of the nature of the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 8, 2014

  Comics Studies, Superheroes

  Avengers, Batman, Fantastic Four, feminisim, Robin, Scott McCloud, Sense-making, Spider-Man, Superdickery, Wonder Woman, X-Men