Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies, Lewis & Clark
Melanie E.S. Kohnen is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies at Lewis & Clark College. Her research focuses on how the media industry and audiences negotiate media access, diversity, distribution, and storytelling in interactions on social media and at conventions like San Diego Comic-Con.
Comic-Con@Home: Virtual comics event declared a failure by industry critics, but fans loved it
Sep 09, 2020 06:35 am UTC| Entertainment
With the vast majority of North Americas thousand-plus fan conventions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual conventions (called cons) have been a bright spot for fans in an otherwise bleak year. Although...
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