Tag: Symbolic Interactionism

• Gendering Hatsune Miku

  

  Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I have been working on our concept of the networked gender, building off the concept of the networked self to understand the co-constructive nature of gender identity. We will be publishing a piece on using this concept to look at BMO in Adventure Time, and this represents our […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 26, 2017

  Artificial Agents, Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies, Uncategorized

  gender, gender identity, Hatsune Miku, identity, networked gender, networked self, social constructivism, Symbolic Interactionism, virtual bands, vocaloids

• The Symbolic Interactionism of “Her”

  Her is a movie exploring the tensions of love, relationship, sex, and what it means to be human. It is a beautiful romance between a man and his operating system that leaves both changed for the better.  It is a glimpse into what our future may be as the singularity is approached and artificial life is […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 20, 2014

  Communication Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Internet Studies

  Amy Adams, artificial intelligence, Chris Pratt, George Herbert Mead, Her, Herbert Blumler, identity, intuitive agents, Joaquin Phoenix, networked gender, networked self, Olivia Wilde, operating systems, post-verbal, Samantha, Scarlett Johansson, sense of self, Spike Jonze, Symbolic Interactionism, Theodore, Zizi Papacharissi

• The Golem’s Creator: How Communication Influences Life

  Back in 1997, so seemingly long ago, I took a class at UW-Madison that turned me from a pre-med student into a double major of communication arts and psychology that would eventually lead me to become the scholar I am today.  For this class, we had to write a paper about the communication theories we […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 12, 2013

  Communication Studies

  Agenda-Setting Theory, communication, cultivation theory, desensitization, excitation transfer theory, Expectancy Violations Theory, Feminism, gendered communication, group communication, groupthink, leadership, mass communication, mean world syndrome, Media, non-verbal, norm of reciprocity, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, self-disclosure, social learning theory, Symbolic Interactionism