Announcement & Call for submissions
The latest issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception studies, a
new journal which aims to provide an on-line, interdisciplinary forum for the
fields of audience and reception studies, has just come out.
Volume #4, issue #1 (May, 2007) includes an editorial by Martin Barker, as well
as a large variety of articles on diverse topics such as media consumption and
identity among school children, Lost fandom and narrative consumption, and
viewer responses to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Submissions
Particip@tions is always on the look-out for contributions from a wide range of
disciplines that focus on audience research. It publishes contributions from
various approaches, such as, sociology, psychology, anthropology,
linguistics/discourse theory and cultural and media studies. Additionally, since
important notions about audiences have emerged from outside the 'mainstream'of
media audience research, Particip@tions will also publish noteworthy
contributions from fields such as museum and heritage studies; literary studies;
educational studies, as well as interesting contributions from fields outside
academia.
Briefly -
Particip@tions aims to
- publish research from different approaches, without the limitations on length
and presentation of evidence which can cramp and weaken such work;
- encourage open debate between different approaches and methodologies;
- encourage collaborations across academic disciplines, areas and countries;
- provide a place where people may find materials and bibliographies for use in
teaching, and research training;
- provide a focal point for the development of the broad field, including the
organization of conferences and other kinds of fora.
Particip@tions is available full-text for no charge at:
http://www.participations.org/
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