Tag: social networks

• Social Media Literacy and Ethical Leadership

  Social Media and Leadership Power Social networks online and offline represent relationships between people, and people capitalize on such connections to perform tasks, from gathering information to enacting political reform. Strong connections can yield higher returns, as strong ties more than weak ties can encourage willingness to help. The more strong ties we have, and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 14, 2020

  Communication Studies

  communication, communication literacy, communication management, cultural capital, leaders, leadership, opinion leaders, social capital, social media, social media literacy, social media management, social media skills, social networks, strong ties, weak ties

• Customer-Fans and the Happily Exploited

  

  Time for another story (I appear to have a lot to tell!); this time, about the experiences I had at the biggest comic book convention in the world, San Diego Comic Con International. When I graduated college, I moved to Los Angeles and ended up working at an agency that represents writers, directors and producers. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 12, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Fandom, Uncategorized

  Co-optation, Comic Con International, customer-fans, diffusion of innovation, exploitation, fan communities, fan conventions, fan labor, Fandom, Fandom Marketing, fans, Halle Berry, Hollywood, loyal consumers, Marketing, opinion leaders, political economic theory, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, social networks, Viral marketing

• Echo Chambers and Fandom

  

  Okay, first, let’s talk about echo chambers. You may have heard this term, especially since the 2016 presidential election. In media studies, an echo chamber is a community, usually one that is online, where the members of that community all have the same interests, values, and beliefs. This group of like-minded individuals talk with one […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 9, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom

  communication, communication problems, concertgoers, defamation, dialogue, difference, Donald Trump, echo chambers, ethnography, fan communities, Fans.com, fractured fandom, Infield Chatter, interaction, MLBPA, players, polarization, social networks, superfans

• Community in Online Learning: Thoughts from EDUCAUSE

  

  Every year, there is a special gathering of individuals interested in improving the technologies of higher education. Faculty, IT administrators, inventors, entrepreneurs, the Big Dogs (i.e. Google, Microsoft, Dell, etc) convene for several days of talks, presentations, pitches, sales, and ideas. This get annual, international together is sponsored by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit dedicated to improving […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 12, 2014

  Communication Studies, Higher Education

  active learning, backchannel, blended courses, Catholic higher education, Catholic social teaching, Community, digital divide, Education 1.0, Education 2.0, Education 3.0, EDUCAUSE, game design, gamification, higher education, Massive Open Online Course, MOOC, Ohio State University, online education, online learning, online learning community, online learning environment, participatory design, Relationships, Small Private Online Course, social justice, social media, social networks, SPOC, Web 2.0

• Cultivation theory, media socialization and adolescents’ identity formation

  

  (Originally a class paper written in 2003, with the full paper, including references, found here.  Related thinking on this topic can be found here.) When a farmer plants a field of corn, he must provide several environmental conditions to ensure it grows. There must be ample sunlight, water, and fertilizer. The temperature should neither be […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 6, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies

  adolescents, cultivation theory, Culture, George Gerbner, identity, identity construction, mass media, media effects, Media use, peer networks, peers, social media, social networks, socialization, sociocultural, teenagers, Television, theory