[This post comes from my candidacy exam, in which I was asked to respond to a classic article: Bauer, Raymond. 1964. “The obstinate audience: The influence process…… Read more “Updating the Obstinate Audience”
Tag: Uses and Gratifications
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”
Understanding Uses and Gratifications
[The following comes from my Ph.D. candidacy exam in 2007; in this part of the exam, I was asked to consider the uses and gratifications approach to…… Read more “Understanding Uses and Gratifications”
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…… Read more “Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender”
Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation
A long time ago, when I first started graduate school, one of my primary research interests was the role the media plays in forming people’s identities. At…… Read more “Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation”
On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been
I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity to organize these thoughts to provide the…… Read more “On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been”
Teenagers Using Media Texts for Sexual Identity Exploration
What turns me on, turns me off?: Usage of media texts by adolescents for sexual identity exploration. (A graduate school psychology final paper, edited for posting, with…… Read more “Teenagers Using Media Texts for Sexual Identity Exploration”
Cultivated Learning Theory: Graduate school, year one
In the theory class of the first semester of my first year as a graduate student, I was in a group with two other MA hopefuls, and…… Read more “Cultivated Learning Theory: Graduate school, year one”
