Tag: Virtual worlds

• Virtual World Television: The Blog

  As I’ve discussed elsewhere on this blog (such as here and here), I’ve undertaken a new project with producer Pooky Amsterdam to look into the phenomenon of virtual world television.  As part of this study, I’ve interviewed over two dozen producers from the virtual world Second Life.  Pooky and I have been gathering information about their […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 15, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

  Pooky Amsterdam, Second Life, virtual world television, Virtual worlds

• Analyzing Obama’s 2012 Victory Speech

  In the early hours of November 7th, 2012, Barack Obama took the stage at the McCormick Center in Chicago to give his re-election victory speech after Republican challenger Mitt Romney had conceded the defeat of Ohio, and as Ohio went, so went the nation.  In about 20 minutes, Obama thanked his family, his friends, his […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 15, 2012

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Text Analysis

  2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama, City of Heroes, content analysis, Discourse, election night, election victory, inclusion, qualitative analysis, questions, rhetoric, Second Life, Sense-making, tag clouds, themes, victory speech, Virtual worlds, word clouds, Wordle

• 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 beginning of a structure for how to organize my research, past, present and future. For awhile now, I’ve been convinced that how the new media has affected our […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 20, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Audience, Audience activity, audience-as-consumer, broadcasting, digital media technologies, digital revolution, encoding-decoding, Fandom, Gameplay marketing, gender, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, interpretive interactivity, media history, minutia reception, new media, nichecasting, online fan communities, passivity, physical interactivity, popular culture, Sense-making, transgressing, Uses and Gratifications, virtual world television, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

• Virtual Worlds – Sense-making and Innovation

  The team from the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark were filmed giving talks about their varied and unique research projects — about the major findings that came out of their participation in the group.  You can view each by following this link.  Unfortunately, unless you understand Danish, only mine and Ates’ […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 27, 2012

  Virtual Worlds

  avatars, dialogue, innovation, interactive design, machinima, Presence, Roskilde University, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• Virtual World Television: Case studies in the emergence of user-generated participatory television

  This post comes from our presentation at Web Science 2012 this past June in Evanston, Il.  We are in the process of preparing this study’s results for further conferences as well as a monograph. Introduction Along with producer Pooky Amsterdam of PookyMedia (whom I met producing earlier research [7]), we have begun a study to analyze […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 31, 2012

  Virtual Worlds

  Inhabited Television, Metamix TV, Metanomics, Metaverse TV, Science Friday, Second Life, Television, The 1st Question, The Dating Casino, Time Travelers, Treet TV, User-generated content, Virtual worlds

• How People Make Sense of Virtual Worlds — and Why It Matters

  This video was produced by Roskilde University, with assistance from Dominican University, to summarize and even illustrate some of the findings from my research study, Virtual Worlds Entertainment. In this video I discuss what I had done, what I had learned, and perhaps what others can learn from it all.

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 16, 2012

  Virtual Worlds

  Dominican University, Roskilde University, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• Making Sense of Entertainment in Virtual Worlds

  In September of 2008, with the ink on my doctorate barely dry, I jumped a plane and landed in Denmark.  I had accepted a post-doctorate research fellowship at Roskilde University with the Virtual Worlds Research Project.  My main research project with the group would turn out to be a qualitative experiment to understand how people […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 25, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games, Virtual Worlds

  City of Heroes, Denmark, Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology, experiment, helps, Hindrances, innovation, interface, metaphors, Nintendo Wii, qualitative experiment, questions, Roskilde, Roskilde University, Second Life, Sense-making, Superheroes, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group

• Virtual Worlds Television and Metanomics: Innovating or Remediating?

  I’ve been using this blog to deconstruct research I’ve done that are interesting vignettes of findings, but perhaps in need of a non-traditional method of publication.  In one such paper that I’ve been deconstructing,  I’ve already discussed the Ghost Hunters live special episodes for how they incorporated online technologies as well as the virtual living rooms created […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 13, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies, Virtual Worlds

  CBS, chatbridge, constructive cacophony, content interactivity, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Live, Internet television, Ira Flatow, Metanomics, NBC, NPR, remediation, Robert Bloomfield, Sage Hall, Science Friday, Second Life, social interactivity, talk shows, Television, text chat, Virtual worlds

• The Metaphors of Virtual Worlds

  How do people make sense of a novel situation, such as engaging with a media product they’ve never used before?  If that media product is a virtual world, then it appears people may make a bridge between the virtual and the physical by using metaphors to compare their experiences in the virtual world to those […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 16, 2011

  Audience/Reception Studies, Virtual Worlds

  metaphors, Sense-making, Sense-Making Methodology, Virtual worlds

• Haunted Houses as Physicalized Virtual Reality?

  It’s October.  Sure, here in Chicagoland it’s been 80 degrees for the past couple days, but the leaves are falling, and the calendar can’t be lying.  It’s October, which means every young person’s fancy turns to the ghouls and ghosts that go bump in the night.  For the very young ones, this time means donning […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 9, 2011

  Virtual Worlds

  Augmented reality, Halloween, Haunted Houses, Second Life, Virtual Reality, Virtual worlds