[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (ongoing; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Announcement & Call for submissions

The fifth 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 #5 (May, 2006) includes an editorial by Sue Turnbull, the second
part of Martin Barker's essay on Straw dogs, entitled; 'Loving and
hating straw dogs: The meaning of audience responses to a controversial
film. Part 2 - Rethinking straw dogs as a film', Alexander Dhoest's
article on Flemish television fiction called 'Everybody liked it:
collective memories of early Flemish television fiction', Donald Horton
and Richard Wohl's 'Mass communication and para-social interaction:
Observations on intimacy at a distance', and Dwan Lewcock's 'Converse
with the audience in the restoration theatre', as well as various reviews.

Submissions

Particip at 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 at 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 at 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 at tions is available full-text for no charge at:
http://www.participations.org/



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