Audiences: a cross generational dialogue. A faculty-mentored cross-generational doctoral workshop on audiences and audience research, Brussels, 11 April 2012

Phillips, T. (2012). Audiences: a cross generational dialogue. A faculty-mentored cross-generational doctoral workshop on audiences and audience research, Brussels, 11 April 2012. .

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Abstract: PhD thesis: Confessions of a PeepingTom: Kevin Smith Fandom and Online Community (see abstract in attachment) Questions discussed during the workshop (among others): 1. When the object of fandom is an active participant in (and part of the historical discourse of) the fan culture, does a data skew prioritising the audience need to be reassessed? 2. How objective is the scholar fan’s assessment of their own capital within the research community? 3. How can we address the methodological issue of accessing those “invisible” fans who are excluded from audience research?