Tag: Situationality

• 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

• A Communication Toolbox for Communication Literacy

  

  The following is an excerpt from my book Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities. To read all of the information, you will need to get the book, either from a seller or your local library. [Do not cite this blog post as it is an abridged version of what appears in the book. All […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 14, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  communication, communication gaps, communication literacy, communication situations, communication skills, communication toolbox, contentious communication, dialogue, fractured fandom, listening, monologue, no-logue, positive communication, power, questions, Respect, Situationality, stiutations

• Digital game players’ preferences: Concluding thoughts

  (Part one of this paper can be found with the literature review here, while part two with the method and analysis sections can be found here.  The full paper, with references, can be found here.) DISCUSSION             In undertaking this study, our purpose was to address several questions in regards to our understanding of players’ […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 2, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  better design, better serving women, designing for women, desire games, digital games, game design, game design for women, game design preferences, gamers’ gratifications, gender differences, players’ preferences, Situationality, uses and gratfications, women gamers, women players

• Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender

  (The literature review for this paper can be found in this previous post.) Study overview As indicated above, our purpose for this study was to enter the literature on gender differences in game playing with two variations on the extant literature.  One of these was to include male and female assessments of game playing gratifications […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 28, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  Appearance, Challenge, digital games, fantasy, game design, game design preferences, game features, gender, gratifications, Immersion, interaction, oppression, situation, Situationality, Uses and Gratifications, women gamers, women players

• Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players’ preferences

  This three-part post comes from a 2007 International Communication Association conference paper.  The research was an attempt to understand if gender was as large of a factor in player’s experiences and preferences as specific situations of playing digital games. INTRODUCTION             The digital game industry has become a powerful media and cultural force over the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 23, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  Brenda Dervin, communication technology, expectations, game design, game features, game playing, gaming preferences, gaming situations, gender, gratifications, situational, Situationality

• So, Why Did the Media Fail You?

  [This post comes from a 2005 research proposal studying how the media was perceived as hindering people.  The entire proposal, with full citations and references, can be found here.] Broadcasting or traditional media have been studied by the uses and gratifications perspective (UGP) to uncover the reasons people use traditional media (television, radio, newspapers, even film), […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 8, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  Expectancy-Value Theory, Failures, Hindrances, Media Dependency Theory, Media engaging, Media Richness Theory, Media use, media use and effects, Niche Theory, Situationality, sociocultural, Uses and Gratifications