Bryan?J.?Carr is professor in the Communication Department and in the Information Technology and Data Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is author of The Transmedia Construction of the Black Panther: Long Live the King and coeditor of Gendered Defenders: Marvel's Heroines in Transmedia Spaces. His work has also been featured in books such as Parasocial Politics: Audiences, Pop Culture, and Politics; What Is a Game??Essays on the Nature of Videogames; and?Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line?as well as in the?Journal of Entertainment and Media Studies?and?Southwest Mass Communication Journal.

