News of the Action

New double special issue out: Mediated Urbanism in the International Communication Gazette, edited by WG3's Seija Ridell and Frauke Zeller

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 10/09/2013 - 15:44

International Communication Gazette
August-October 2013; 75 (5-6)

Double Special Issue on: Mediated Urbanism
Guest editors: Seija Ridell and Frauke Zeller

http://gaz.sagepub.com/content/75/5-6.toc?etoc

Acknowledgements

Seija Ridell and Frauke Zeller
Special issue on Mediated urbanism

Preface

Susan J Drucker and Gary Gumpert
Steps in the street

Editorial

Seija Ridell and Frauke Zeller
Mediated urbanism: Navigating an interdisciplinary terrain

Articles

David Harris Smith

New research report of the COST Action (WG4): Media, technology and the migrant family

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 15:23

COST Action IS0906 - Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies (TATS)
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu

Media, technology and the migrant family. Media uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe

Family research and migration research have an important but mostly separate history. Media have gradually become a central topic on both research agendas, but audience research on migrant families is still relatively scarce.

CfP Special Section "Generations as (media) audiences" in Participations

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 14:51

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Special Section “Generations as (media) audiences” in Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies

Guest editors of the special issue:
Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Nicoletta Vittadini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
Galit Nimrod (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

COST conference on New Media and Participation: extendend deadline Sept 2nd

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 08/28/2013 - 15:54

Call For Papers: New Media and Participation (22-23 November 2013, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul)

Extended deadline for Abstracts: September 2, 2013

For Additional Information: nmp.bahcesehir.edu.tr

Conference Theme:

Levels of political participation through the mainstream media, and participation of the public via media production, have been historically low due to the oligopolic structures of the media markets and their centralized models of governance and decision-making.

CfP Reminders: COST Final Conference and Doctoral Workshop (deadline Sept 1st)

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 09:38

CfP COST FINAL CONFERENCE - DEADLINE APPROACHING (September 1st, 2013)

The future of audience research:
Agenda, theory and societal significance

Open Conference of the COST Action IS0906
Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu

Presented in collaboration with ECREA (Audience and Reception Studies section), IAMCR (Audience section) and ICA (Communication and Technology division & Mass Communication division)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 5-7, 2014

New book of the COST Action: Methods for Analyzing Social Media

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 08/05/2013 - 17:38

New book of the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies

Methods for Analyzing Social Media
Edited by Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger, Jakob Linaa Jensen
Routledge – 2013 – 208 pages
Book details on Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415818322/

If everything goes well, the COST Action members who had provided their postal address will receive a copy of the book.

Description of the book:

Two COST Action books have just been published

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 08/01/2013 - 21:16

We are happy to report that two TATS COST Action books have just been published. Both of them are part of the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series.

Audience Research Methodologies: Between Innovation and Consolidation
Edited by Geoffroy Patriarche, Helena Bilandzic, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Jelena Jurišic
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415827355/

Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett

COST Call for Short Term Scientific Missions

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 07/30/2013 - 17:08

The COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” invites members’ applications to the call for Short Term Scientific Missions (exchange visits).

Goals of a STSM

CfP COST Conference: New Media and Participation

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 07/18/2013 - 13:44

NEW MEDIA AND PARTICIPATION
http://nmp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/NMP/New_Media_And_Participation.html

A conference co-organised by the Faculty of Communications, Bahcesehir University, Galata / Karakoy, Istanbul, and the COST Action IS0906, ‘Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies’

22-23 November 2013

Levels of political participation through the mainstream media, and participation of the public via media production, have been historically low due to the oligopolic structures of the media markets and their centralized models of governance and decision-making.

New publication of the COST Action: Special section of Participations on the WG2 (interview) essays

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 16:54

The special section of Participations on the WG2 (interview) essays has just been published.

You'll find the issue here:
http://www.participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%201/contents.htm

Over the past three years, Working Group 2 of the TATS COST action has collected a series of essays combining self-authored and interview essays with key members of media organisations, politicians, academics and civil society members, in relation to the theme of audience, interactivity and participation.