Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception studies
The latest issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception studies, a new journal which aims to provide an on-line, interdisciplinary forum for the fields of audience and reception studies, has just come out.
Volume #4, issue #1 (May, 2007) includes an editorial by Martin Barker, as well as a large variety of articles on diverse topics such as media consumption and identity among school children, Lost fandom and narrative consumption, and viewer responses to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Submissions
Particip@tions is always on the look-out for contributions from a wide range of disciplines that focus on audience research. It publishes contributions from various approaches, such as, sociology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics/discourse theory and cultural and media studies. Additionally, since important notions about audiences have emerged from outside the 'mainstream'of media audience research, Particip@tions will also publish noteworthy contributions from fields such as museum and heritage studies; literary studies; educational studies, as well as interesting contributions from fields outside academia.
Particip@tions aims to
- publish research from different approaches, without the limitations on length and presentation of evidence which can cramp and weaken such work;
- encourage open debate between different approaches and methodologies;
- encourage collaborations across academic disciplines, areas and countries;
- provide a place where people may find materials and bibliographies for use in teaching, and research training;
- provide a focal point for the development of the broad field, including the organization of conferences and other kinds of fora.
Particip@tions is available full-text for no charge at: