[ecrea] 2 Cost TATS Research reports: 1/Overview of European audience research & 2/Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures

The COST Action ‘Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies’ is 
pleased to announce the publication of two research reports:

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Overview of European audience research
Edited by H. Bilandzic, N. Carpentier, G. Patriarche, C. Ponte, K.C. 
Schrøder, E. Vossen and F. Zeller

The state of audience research in European countries is not yet properly 
charted due to the fragmented and varied nature of the field. Obtaining 
an overview was both an objective of the Action in its own right, and a 
precondition of other achievements. For the first meeting of the Working 
Groups in Lisbon (November 11-13, 2010), the Steering Group of the 
Action invited the members to submit short national essays that review 
existing and emerging audience research in their respective countries. 
The reviews could be theoretical, topical, methodological, empirical or 
institutional. In total, 58 essays covering the 30 participating 
countries were delivered and are available on the Action website at: 
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu. This research report brings 
together these 58 essays as well as a tentative synthesis in the 
concluding section.

Available on the Action website at: 
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/output/research_reports

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Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures
Edited by S. Livingstone

European scholars and policy stakeholders are concerned that, in an 
ever-more complex digital media ecology, the demands on audiences to 
become media literate are growing. While stakeholders work to develop 
new initiatives, academic research is vital both to inform and critique. 
Entitled ‘Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures’, this report 
brings together experts from different perspectives to generate a timely 
account of media literacy in Europe.
Available on the Action website at: 
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/output/research_reports

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COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in 
Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded 
research at the European level. Website: http://www.cost.eu.

The COST Action ‘Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies’ 
(2010-2014) is coordinating research efforts into the key 
transformations of European audiences within a changing media and 
communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships 
with the social, cultural and political areas of European societies. A 
range of interconnected but distinct topics concerning audiences are 
being developed by four Working Groups: (1) New media genres, media 
literacy and trust in the media; (2) Audience interactivity and 
participation; (3) The role of media and ICT use for evolving social 
relationships; and (4) Audience transformations and social integration. 
Website: http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu.


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