INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Announcement and call for papers
TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES
Identity | Creativity | Everyday Life
6–7 September 2007, CAMRI, University of Westminster
http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk
in association with the Audience and Reception Studies section of the
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and
the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication
Association (ICA).
'Audience' is now widely recognised as a concept in crisis. The
traditional notion of families gathered around the television set has
crumbled, to be replaced by much more complex models of dispersed and
fragmented audiences, 'users', or 'participants', who may take the role
of producer as well as audience, and who use traditional and new
technologies in a mix of communication, consumption and creativity.
At the same time, audiences survive. Today's diverse range of media
forms continue to have audiences, and media theorists continue to
produce important work about the connections between media and
identities, everyday life, and responses to current and global affairs.
The approach of this conference is one which understands audiences as
engaged in dynamic and creative practices. Such an approach is not
located around any particular paradigm, or method, but is rather
multidisciplinary and multimethod in its understanding of audience
research. Through looking at dynamic practices we can understand how
audiences engage with and reflect on the changing nature of contemporary
media.
Plenary speakers will include Sonia Livingstone (London School of
Economics) and Joke Hermes (Inholland University and University of
Amsterdam).
Confirmed speakers include Martin Barker, Göran Bolin, John Corner, Knut
Lundby, Peter Lunt, and Maire Messenger Davies, Lothar Mikos.
Conference organisers: Caroline Dover, David Gauntlett, Annette Hill,
and Roza Tsagarousianou (CAMRI, School of Media, Arts and Design,
University of Westminster), with Geoffroy Patriarche, Chair, ECREA
Audience and Reception Studies section, and Lynn Schofield Clark, Chair,
ICA Popular Communication Division.
CALL FOR PAPERS
See full details at www.transformingaudiences.org.uk
Deadline for proposals: 20 April 2007
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Salvatore Scifo
Communications,
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
Communication and Media Research Institute
School of Media, Arts & Design
University of Westminster
Watford Road, Northwick Park
Harrow
HA1 3TP
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
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