[Discussion] CFP: Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (ongoing; online journal)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Announcement & Call for submissions

The third 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.

Issue #3 (January, 2005) includes an editorial by Martin Barker, Desiree
Boughtwood's 'View to be thin: Interrogating media's relationship to
eating disorders through audience research' and Janet Staiger's
'Cabinets of transgression: Collecting and arranging Hollywood images',
and various reviews.

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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