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…… Read more “Gendering Robots: A Class Discussion”
Tag: Sense-making
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”
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…… Read more “Making Sense of Cinema Anthology”
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”
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”
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…… Read more “Problems with Perceptions in Fandom”
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…… Read more “The Oddness of Old Comic Books”
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”
Exploring the Trauma of the Spanish Civil War at the Intersection of Fantasy and Reality
Guillermo del Toro — when he isn’t thrilling us with hellboys or kaiju — has given us some of the most intensely personal and fantastically dark films…… Read more “Exploring the Trauma of the Spanish Civil War at the Intersection of Fantasy and Reality”
