[ecrea] call for abstracts: doctoral workshop “Audiences: a cross generational dialogue”

“Audiences: a cross generational dialogue”

A faculty-mentored cross-generational doctoral workshop on audiences and 
audience research

Organised by YECREA and COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences 
Transforming Societies

Presented in collaboration with ECREA (Audience and Reception Studies 
section)

What is new and unique about being an audience researcher in 
contemporary media environments? Are old questions, challenges and 
concepts still of worth? What do we envisage in the next few decades of 
audience studies, and where does our own work fit into that narrative? 
Addressing, these questions, the ARS section of ECREA, YECREA (the young 
scholars' network of ECREA) and COST Action IS0906 brings together three 
generations of audience researchers in an intensive day-long workshop in 
Brussels on 11th April 2012.


For this, we invite abstracts from graduate students (preferably in 
advanced stages of doctoral research) who see themselves contributing to 
audience studies, including print, radio, film, television and internet 
audiences and users. The proposed workshop is intended as a 
cross-generational space where audience scholars from three distinct 
generations come together to discuss the work of the doctoral students 
participating in the workshop and also broader questions for the field

Mentors! The workshop will bring together Professors Denis McQuail, Kim 
Schroder, Sonia Livingstone, David Buckingham, Martin Barker and 
Elizabeth Bird. With a diverse range of approaches to audiences between 
them, they will spend a day listening and responding to doctoral 
research and addressing questions raised by their projects especially as 
they fit into the narrative of audience research in the future decades. 
The intensive day long workshop will feature opening and closing 
statements from each faculty mentor, organised in a plenary, and 
parallel workshops focusing on student work during the day.

Funding! We will be able to accept 20 doctoral students for this 
workshop, of whom up to 10 students can be funded, provided the student 
is a member of the COST Action Transforming Audiences Transforming 
Societies. Students who are not a member of the Action will have to fund 
themselves if accepted to attend this workshop.


Doctoral students are invited to send in abstracts addressing the 
following parameters –

1. Abstracts describing the PhD project (500-800 words) should 
preferably be from advanced doctoral students who are currently 
analysing their data and writing up their research.

2. Abstracts should present the PhD project in a manner that reflects on 
the history and future of the field of audience research and which 
culminates in 3 questions you would like to discuss in the workshop. 
Please note that the media you work with does not matter – whether print 
or radio or internet, but what we are interested in is how you reflect 
on your project as part of the audience research narrative. If selected 
you will required to prepare a brief presentation of your work for the day.

3. Please include a CV with your application

4. Please indicate if you are an Action Member

5. Our selection criteria will include (a) the intellectual coherence of 
your PhD project and its relevance to audience research, (b) your 
attempts at contextualising your PhD project within the broader 
narrative of the field and (c) the fit between your interests and those 
of the faculty mentors.

Deadline for submissions – 30th October 2011

Participants will be notified by – 30th November 2011

Please send applications to (crossgenerationalworkshop /at/ googlemail.com)

Please see the full call online at http://yecrea.eu/node/2199