Announcement & Call for submissions
The third 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.
Issue #3 (January, 2005) includes an editorial by Martin Barker, Desiree Boughtwood’s ‘View to be thin: Interrogating media’s relationship to eating disorders through audience research’ and Janet Staiger’s ‘Cabinets of transgression: Collecting and arranging Hollywood images’, and various reviews.
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.
Briefly –
Particip@tions aims to
publish research from different approaches, without the limitationson length and presentation of evidence which can cramp and weaken suchwork;
encourage open debate between different approaches and methodologies;
encourage collaborations across academic disciplines, areas andcountries;
provide a place where people may find materials and bibliographiesfor 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: http://www.participations.org/
