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

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.
With this project, Working Group 2 wanted to establish a dialogue with the wide variety of people that were dealing with the notion of the audience and issues concerned with interactivity and participation. The objective of the essays was to invite the stakeholders to enter a debate on contemporary issues concerning the audience and to invite them to voice their perspective on contemporary issues of interactivity and participation.
This objective is part of the broader remit of Working Group 2 within the TATS Cost Action, as it aims to study the possibilities and constraints of mediated public participation.
This includes the roles that new and old media institutions and professionals play in facilitating public participation and in building citizenship; the interlocking of mainstream media and non-mainstream media and their production of new hybrid organisational structures and audience participation.

Kind regards,
Nico
WG2 chair

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Full TOC Participations 10:1
http://www.participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%201/contents.htm

Volume 10, Issue 1

(May 2013)

Past Issues

Contents

Editorial

Barker, Martin & Sue Turnbull (Joint Editors):

'Ten years old - and ready to try new things'

Articles

Bradby, Barbara:

'Our affair with Mila Kunis: A group ethnography of cinema-going and the 'male gaze'’

Haslop, Craig:

'"I certainly wouldn't want to be portrayed as a boring straight person": Torchwood, meaning-making and the performance of gender and sexual identities'

Special Section: The Fan Studies Network - new connections, new research

Bennett, Lucy & Tom Phillips:

'An introduction: The Fan Studies Network - new connections, new research'

Booth, Paul & Peter Kelly:

'The changing faces of Doctor Who fandom: New fans, new technologies, old practices?'

Busse, Kristina:

'Geek hierarchies, boundary policing, and the gendering of the good fan'

Chin, Bertha & Lori Hitchcock Morimoto:

'Towards a theory of transcultural fandom'

Ellison, Hannah:

'Submissives, Nekos and Futanaris: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Glee Kink Meme'

Hills, Matt:

'Fiske's 'textual productivity' and digital fandom: Web 2.0 democratization versus fan distinction?'

Lamerichs, Nicolle:

'The cultural dynamic of doujinshi and cosplay: Local anime fandom in Japan, USA and Europe'

Pett, Emma:

'"Hey! Hey! I've seen this one, I've seen this one. It's a classic!": Nostalgia, repeat viewing and cult performance in Back to the Future'

Proctor, William:

'"Holy crap, more Star Wars! More Star Wars? What if they're crap?": Disney, Lucasfilm and Star Wars online fandom in the 21st century'

Sandvoss, Cornel:

'Toward an understanding of political enthusiasm as media fandom: Blogging, fan productivity and affect in American politics'

Whiteman, Natasha, Joanne Metivier:

'From post-object to "Zombie" fandoms: The "deaths" of online fan communities and what they say about us'

Bury, Rhiannon, Ruth Deller, Adam Greenwood & Bethan Jones:

'From Usenet to Tumblr: The changing role of social media'

McCulloch, Richard, Virginia Crisp, Jon Hickman & Stephanie Jones:

'Of proprietors and poachers: Fandom as negotiated brand ownership'

Freund, Kathrina & Dianna Fielding:

'Research ethics in fan studies'

Jones, Bethan & Lucy Bennett:

'Blurring boundaries, crossing divides: An interview with Will Brooker'

Delmar, Javier Lozano & Victor Hernández-Santaolalla & Marina Ramos:

'Fandom generated content: An approach to the concept of 'fanadvertising''

Sturm, Damion & Andrew McKinney:

'Affective hyper-consumption and immaterial labors of love: Theorizing sport fandom in the age of new media'

Special Section: COST - audience interaction & participation

Damásio, Manuel José, Mélanie Bourdaa, Bozena I. Mierzejewska, Ana Milojevic, José Manuel Noguera, Birgit Stark, Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic & Igor Vobic:

'Editors' introduction: Stakeholder essays on audience interaction and participation'

Stark, Birgit & Andy Kaltenbrunner:

'There is no such thing as a 'convergence continuum' aiming towards the perfect solution'

Stark, Birgit & Ina von Holly:

'Social media is not a threat but a reward for companies!'

Haas, Josefa:

'New tools and scenes for the media play'

Nyiro, Nóra & Agnes Urban:

'Effects of audience participation in CSO communication'

Marmino, Michele, Mario Petitto & Andrea Pinchera:

'CSOs' communication strategies and audience participation'

Joye, Stijn & Philippe Henon:

'Activating the audience in times of compassion fatigue'

Vozab, Dina, Eugen Jakovcic & Saša Šegrt:

'Croatian civil society and media from the perspective of two civil society organisations'

Harrison, Teresa:

'The "audience" as participative, idea generating, decision making citizens: will they transform government?'

Dahlgren, Peter:

'From public to civic intellectuals via online cultures'

Harrington, Stephen, Tim Highfield & Axel Bruns:

'More than a backchannel: Twitter and television'

García de Torres, Elvira:

'Audience territory'

Scolari, Elvira:

'Lost in the borderlines between user-generated content and the cultural industry'

Zamora, Rocío & Wayne Wanta:

'The influence of a mediating source – my friend – is now spreading the influence to others who may not have seen the news reports'

Vobic, Igor:

'Rethinking social life of radio news: Slovenian public radio journalists' perceptions of audience interactivity'

Krstic, Aleksandra:

'When the audience changes a journalist'

Torres da Silva, Marisa:

'Professional views' on letters-to-the-editor as a means of audience participation'

Vesnic-Alujevic, Lucia:

'Online strategies of members of the European parliament'

Hänska-Ahy, Maximillian, Claire Wardle & Malachy Browne:

'Social media & journalism: Reporting the world through user generated content'

Milojevic, Ana, Jelena Kleut & James Ball:

'Conversational style of journalism'

Milojevic, Ana & Steve Herrmannl:

'Journalism taking up a curatorial role'

Maretic, Meri & Ante Babic:

'New political communication'

Buchanan, Margot & Fiona Hyslop:

'Transforming audiences, transforming audience expectations?'

Gallego, Manuel Javier Callejo & Convadonga Fernández:

'Producing information, producing and monitoring communication'

Reviews

Benwell, Bethan, James Procter and Gemma Robinson (eds.):

'Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception’ (Reviewed by Pinar Sadar)

Jacobs, Katrien:

'People's Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet’ (Reviewed by Giovanna Maina)

Lang, Anouk (ed.):

'From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the turn of the twenty-first century’ (Reviewed by Julian McDougall)

Rudolph, Jennifer Domino:

'Embodying Latino Masculinities: Producing Masculatinidad’ (Reviewed by Victoria Kearley)