News of the Action

New Publication WG2 COST Action IS0906 - "Audience Interactivity and Participation: Interviews with Practitioners"

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 05/28/2013 - 14:26

Working Group 2 of the COST Action IS0906 "Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies" presents a new publication entitled "Audience Interactivity and Participation: Interviews with Practitioners".

The publication is available at:

http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/essays-and-interv...

(Editors: Marie Dufrasne & Geoffroy Patriarche)

CfP Doctoral Workshop on Fieldwork in Contemporary Audience Studies

Submitted by patriarche on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 09:58

FIELDWORK IN CONTEMPORARY AUDIENCE STUDIES
A doctoral workshop co-organized by the Young Scholars Network of ECREA and the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, and presented in collaboration with the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA

University of Ljubljana, February 8, 2014

(PDF available in attachment to this webpage)

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OVERVIEW

This workshop will explore the joys and challenges of fieldwork. Fieldwork describes a stage in empirical research and is an essential component of audience research.

New COST WG1 publication available online: CM Journal Issue "Trust in the media across Europe"

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 23:27

COST TATS WG1 special issue ready, and available for free online

Special CM Journal Issue ‘Trust in the media across Europe’, edited by Lars Nyre & Liina Puustinen

(New COST Publication in (OBS*) Observatorio: Introducing Media, Technology and the Migrant Family: Media Uses, Appropriations and Articulations in a Culturally Diverse Europe

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 12:21

NEW COST ACTION IS0906 SPECIAL ISSUE

We are pleased to announce that (OBS*) Observatorio journal's latest issue is now available.

(OBS*) Observatorio Special Issue `Introducing Media, Technology and the Migrant Family: Media Uses, Appropriations and Articulations in a Culturally
Diverse Europe´ (COST ACTION IS0906), including contributions from scholars from Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Spain,

CfP Action Open Conference, Ljubljana 2014: The future of audience research - Agenda, theory and societal significance

Submitted by patriarche on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:25

CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version in attachment to this webpage)

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

Open Conference of the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies

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

CfP reminder: Online journalism and its publics

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 16:14

Online journalism and its publics

December 5-6, 2013, Brussels

Official languages of the conference: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese

Conference website: http://publics2013.ulb.ac.be

New COST Output: Inkception - The Participatory Turn in the Publishing Sphere (transmedia essay)

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 11:21

New output of the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies:

Inkception - The Participatory Turn in the Publishing Sphere

Abstract:

This is not a normal screening. This is a screening of transmedia essays.

Last date for registering to the ECREA-COST pre-conference at ICA: Audiences, elsewhere?

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 21:42

The last date for registering to attend the ICA pre-conference Audiences, elsewhere? at the University of Leicester is 10th May 2013. We welcome all colleagues interested in attending the conference even if they are not presenters.

Please register on the ICA website - https://www.icahdq.org/conf/index.asp. Please register by 10th May

The pre-conference programme is available on this link - http://audienceselsewhere.wordpress.com/pre-conference-programme/

The pre-conference website has travel and accommodation details - http://audienceselsewhere.wordpress.com

New COST double special issue: "Audiences: A Cross-Generational Dialogue"

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 15:04

We are pleased to announce that the double special issue “Audiences: A Cross-Generational Dialogue” is out!

This double special issue results from the work of the cross-generational workshop on audience research co-organized by the COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” and YECREA – the young scholars network of ECREA – at Saint-Louis University, Brussels, in April 2012. The event was presented in collaboration with the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA.

Published in The Communication Review
Volume 16, Issue 1-2, 2013

New COST publication: Methods for analyzing social media

Submitted by patriarche on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 16:04

We are pleased to inform you that the COST double special issue "Methods for Analyzing Social Media" (guest edited by Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger and Jakob Linaa Jensen) has been published in the Journal of Technology in Human Services, Vol. 30, No. 3-4, 01 Jul 2012 and is now available on Taylor & Francis Online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wths20/30/3-4

This double issue contains the following articles:

Methods for Analyzing Social Media: Introduction to the Special Issue
Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger & Jakob Linaa Jensen
Pages: 141-144
DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2012.750218