-- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Call for papers --
** ONE WEEK LEFT FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS **
TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES
Identity | Creativity | Everyday Life
6–7 September 2007, 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.
Plenary speakers will include Sonia Livingstone and Joke Hermes.
Confirmed speakers include Martin Barker, Göran Bolin, John Corner,
Knut Lundby, Peter Lunt, and Maire Messenger Davies.
Conference organisers: Caroline Dover, David Gauntlett, Annette Hill,
and Roza Tsagarousianou (CAMRI, 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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