New COST publications in Participations 9(2)

WG1 and WG2 are pleased to announce the publication of two special COST sections in Participations: The journal of audience and reception studies.

This is the journal website: http://www.participations.org/

The special section on "Multi-Method Audience Research" was edited by Kim Christian Schrøder, Uwe Hasebrink, Sascha Hölig and Martin Barker (on behalf of TATS Working Group 1) and the special section on "Audience Involvement and New Production Paradigms" was edited by José-Manuel Noguera, Francesca Pasquali & Mélanie Bourdaa (on behalf of Task Force 4 of TATS Working Group 2).

The direct link to volume 9, issue 2, which includes these special sections, is: http://www.participations.org/Volume%209/Issue%202/contents.htm

WG1 and WG2 wish to express their warm thanks to Martin Barker for his support and work.

Kind regards,
Kim Christian Schrøder and Nico Carpentier

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Contents Participations: The journal of audience and reception studies, volume 9, issue 2

Editorial

Editorial

Turnbull, Sue (Joint Editor):
'Editorial introduction'

Articles

Bore, Inger-Lise Kalviknes:
'Focus Group Research and TV Comedy Audiences’

George, Kelly C.:
'Self-Help as Women's Popular Culture in Suburban New Jersey: an Ethnographic Perspective'

Redfern, Nick:
‘Correspondence Analysis of Genre Preferences in UK Film Audiences’

Special Section: Comic-Book Audiences

Sabin, Roger:
'Special Section Introduction’

Barker, Martin:
'The Reception of Joe Sacco's Palestine’

Berenstein, Ofer:
'Comic-Book Fans' Recommendations Ceremony: A Look at the Inter-personal Communication Patterns of a Unique Readers/Speakers Community'

Burke, Liam:
‘"Superman in Green": An Audience Study of Comic-Book Film Adaptations Thor and Green Lantern’

Gordon, Ian:
‘Writing to Superman: Towards an Understanding of the Social Networks of Comic Book Fans’

Patrick, Kevin:
‘"Phans", not "Fans": The Phantom and Australian Comic-Book Fandom’

Sabeti, Shari:
‘"Arts of Time and Space": the Perspectives of a Teenage Audience on Reading Novels and Graphic Novels’

Woo, Benjamin:
‘Understanding Understandings of Comics: Reading and Collecting as Media-Oriented Practices’

Special Section: Music Audiences

Bennett, Lucy:
'Special Section Introduction’

Anderson, Lauren:
'"That's how it's supposed to make you feel": Talking with Audiences about 'Both Sides Now' and Love Actually’

Anderson, Tonya:
'Still Kissing Their Posters Goodnight: Female Fandom and the Politics of Popular Music'

Avdeeff, Melissa:
‘Technological Engagement and Musical Eclecticism: An Examination of Contemporary Listening Practices’

Baym, Nancy K.:
‘Fans or Friends? Seeing Social Media As Musicians Do’

Duffett, Mark:
‘Boosting Elvis: a Content Analysis of Editorial Stories from One Fan Club Magazine’

Kaun, Anne & Fredrik Stiernstedt:
‘Media Memories: The Case of Youth Radio DT64’

Potts, Liza:
‘Amanda Palmer and the #LOFNOTC: How Online Fan Participation is Rewriting Music Labels’

Zaborowski, Rafal:
‘Simple Unchanging Stories about Things We Already Know’: Japanese youth and popular songs’

Special Section: Audience Involvement and New Production Paradigms [COST Action]

Noguera, José-Manuel, Francesca Pasquali & Mélanie Bourdaa:
'Special Section Introduction’

Hills, Matt:
‘Torchwood's Trans-transmedia: Media Tie-ins and Brand “Fanagement”’

García-Avilés, José Alberto:
‘Roles of Audience Participation in Multiplatform Television: from Fans and Consumers, to Collaborators and Activists’

Artieri, Giovanni Boccia:
'Productive Publics and Transmedia Participation’

Vobic, Igor & Ana Milojevic:
‘Societal Roles of Online Journalists in Slovenia and Serbia: Self-Perceptions in Relation to the Audience and Print Journalists’

Cordeiro, Paula:
‘Radio becoming R@dio: Convergence, Interactivity and Broadcasting Trends in Perspective’’

Bennett, Lucy:
'Transformations through Twitter: The England Riots, Television Viewership and Negotiations of Power through Media Convergence'

Horváth, Dóra, Tamás Csordás & Nóra Nyiro:
‘Re-written by Machine and New Technology: Did the Internet Kill the Video Star?’

Grandío, María del Mar & Joseba Bonaut:
'Transmedia Audiences and Television Fiction: a Comparative Approach between Skins (UK) and El Barco (Spain)’

Berriman, Liam:
‘Negotiating Proximity: The Co-Existence of Habbo and its Fansites’

Lin, Yu-Wei:
‘The Emergence of the Techno Elite Audience and Free/Open Source Content: A Case Study on BBC Backstage’

Villi, Mikko:
‘Social Curation in Audience Communities: UDC (User-distributed Content) in the Networked Media Ecosystem’

Special Section: Multi-Method Audience Research [COST Action]

Schrøder, Kim Christian, Uwe Hasebrink, Sascha Hölig and Martin Barker:
'Special Section Introduction’

Aveyard, Karina:
'Observer, Mediator and Empiricist: an Account of Methodological Fusion in the Study of Rural Cinema Audiences in Australia’

Barker, Martin & Ernest Mathijs:
'Researching World Audiences: the Experience of a Complex Methodology'

Biltereyst, Daniël, Kathleen Lotze & Philippe Meers:
‘Triangulation in Historical Audience Research: Reflections and Experiences from a Multi-Methodological Research Project on Cinema Audiences in Flanders’

Courtois, Cédric:
‘When Two Worlds Meet: an Inter-Paradigmatic Mixed Method Approach to Convergent Audiovisual Media Consumption’

Dhoest, Alexander:
‘Mixed Methods, Bifocal Vision: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Assess Public Service Performance’

Hasebrink, Uwe &Hanna Domeyer:
'Media Repertoires as patterns of behaviour and as Meaningful Practices: a Multimethod Approach to Media Use in Converging Media Environments’

Nyiro, Nóra:
‘Nested Analysis-based Mixed Method Research of Television and Video-recording Audiences’

Schrøder, Kim Christian:
‘Methodological Pluralism as a Vehicle of Qualitative Generalization’

Reviews

Gelly, Christophe & David Roche (eds.):
'Approaches to Film and Reception Theories / Cinéma et Théories de la Réception’ (Reviewed by Martin Barker)

Miller, Daniel:
'The Comfort of Things, and Stuff' (Reviewed by Phil Ramsey)

Thumim, Nancy:
‘Self-Representation and Digital Culture' (Reviewed by Justin Battin)