Audience and Reception Studies

What is Meant by What is Meant? Negotiating the Conventions of the Moving Image.

ASCoR at the University of Amsterdam has an open position for a doctoral researcher. The PhD project is on the topic “Framing Emotions: Developing a Comprehensive Model of Affective News Framing Effects” – more information on the position is available via the link below:
 
http://www.english.uva.nl/vacancies/vacancies.cfm/78EF6B02-5F52-4752-A1C3CE7F932842A2

Exciting plenaries in the upcoming doctoral workshop on audiences! The programme for this intensive, day-long cross-generational workshop on audiences is now ready. The workshop is partly funded by COST and supported by YECREA, ARS section of ECREA and COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences Transforming Societies.

This summer, Harvard offers some very interesting paid internship opportunities surely of interest to many young scholars. See here - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer. 
 

The special journal issue ‘Interrogating audiences: Theoretical horizons of participation’, edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren

Call for Papers: A Conference to Explore the Past, Present and Future of Television. University of Oregon / Turnbull Center / Portland, Oregon. March 1-3, 2012. What is television these days? How are digital technologies changing television? How are the Internet and other new media changing the television industry�s model of production, distribution and consumption? What is the future of television?