Audience and Reception Studies

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?

Proposals are sought for a special issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies on music and audiences. The theme of this issue will be an examination of the music audience from a range of perspectives, with both theoretical and empirical research welcomed on all aspects of music and reception.