Tag: Symbolic Interactionism
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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 […]
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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
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
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