News of the Action

CfP for the third edited book of the Action

Submitted by patriarche on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 09:54

Frauke Zeller, Cristina Ponte and Brian O´Neill (editors)

Revitalising Audiences: Innovations in European Audience Research (provisional title)

New Call for Papers incorporating the discussion on innovations
(Brussels, April 2012)

Appearance of the Action in the COST Newsletter

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 17:23

An article on the Action 'Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies' has been published in the COST Newsletter of April 2012. In the article, the Action shares best practices to manage particularly wide networks.

The link to the newsletter is: http://www.cost.eu/news/newsletter_april2012

The article 'Media and Society: studying the transformation of European audiences' is available online at: http://www.cost.eu/library/newsroom/Media_and_Society

CFP Special issue: Audiences' Trust in the Media

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:04

COST Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”

Working Group 1 - Task Force 3 “Trust and the Media” is announcing a call for papers to a special issue on "Audiences’ Trust in the Media" in co-operation with the peer reviewed Serbian journal Communication Management Quarterly – Časopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem.

The special issue is based on a panel at the conference organized in Zagreb, April 2011. Now also other members of the action are invited to submit their abstracts.

More information below and attached.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for papers COST edited volume Revitalising Audiences

Submitted by patriarche on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 21:54

Call for Papers
Revitalising Audiences: Innovations in European Audience Research (provisional title)

Frauke Zeller, Cristina Ponte and Brian O´Neill (editors)

New Publication WG2 "Audience Interactivity and Participation: Interviews and essays with media companies representatives"

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 22:12

Working Group 2 of the COST Action IS0906 presents a new publication entitled "Audience Interactivity and Participation: Interviews and essays with media companies representatives". It was edited by Birgit Stark & Bozena Mierzejewska.

The publication is available at: http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/wg2-interview-17-...

Reference:
B. Stark & B. Mierzejewska (eds.) (2012) "Audience interactivity and participation: media company representatives interviews and essays", WG2 COST Action IS0906 Essay Collections, ISBN 978-2-9601157-3-4.

CfP COST Workshop on ‘Post-socialist media audiences’

Submitted by patriarche on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:30

The project ‘Post-socialist media audiences’, a national partner of COST Action IS0906 ‘Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies’, would like to invite submissions of abstracts for papers to be presented at a day workshop on post-socialist audiences and audience research. It will deal with aspects of, and reflections on political and economic transformation in media consumption in post-socialist cultures and the research about it.

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, 25 May 212
Web: http://www.post-socialist-audiences.eu/

ECREA Doctoral Summer School 2012 - Call for COST Action participants

Submitted by patriarche on Tue, 02/07/2012 - 11:56

Deadline for application: March 25, 2012

As part of the strategy of the COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” to support the current research of its PhD students, a partnership was established with the ECREA Doctoral Summer School (http://www.comsummerschool.org), and the Management Committee of the Action has allocated 2000 EUR to fund the participation of two PhD students.

The COST Action invites applications from its PhD students interested in participating in the 2012 ECREA Summer School, to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 12 ­- 25 August 2012.

CfP: Media, technology and the migrant family: Media uses, appropriations and articulations in a culturally diverse Europe (REVISED CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION) - Journal Observatorio (OBS*)

Submitted by PONTE on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 16:39

Guest Editors: Cristina Ponte & Myria Georgiou

Within the Cost Action IS0906, Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies,