[ecrea] Interview Essays with Civil Society Representatives - On “Audience Interactivity and Participation”

 New publication COST Action Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences,
 Transforming Societies”

*“Audience Interactivity and Participation”*

*Interview Essays *with Civil Society Representatives

*Edited by Mélanie Bourdaa, Igor Vobic( and Manuel José Damásio*

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With the publication of this first series of essays, Working Group 2 of 
the Cost Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” aims to 
establish a dialogue with members of civil society representatives that 
are dealing with the notion of the audience in relation to interactivity 
and participation. Through these essays, members of CSOs are given the 
opportunity to contribute to the debates on contemporary issues 
concerning the audience.

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The essays can be downloaded from the TATS-WG2 Output page:

http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/303

The direct links to the essays are:

http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/InterviewEssays-final_2.pdf 


or

http://comunicacao.grupolusofona.pt/2011-2012/ulht/cost/default.html**

Via iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=480627945

*“Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”* (TATS)* *is a large 
network financed by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology 
(COST) framework. The main objective of this network is to advance 
state-of-the-art knowledge of the key transformations of European 
audiences within a changing media and communication environment, 
identifying their interrelationships with the social, cultural and 
political areas of European societies. Within this Cost Action, *Working 
Group 2 “Audience Interactivity and Participation” *aims at looking at 
the possibilities and constraints of mediated public participation,* 
*the roles that new and old media institutions and professionals play in 
facilitating* *public participation and in building citizenship; the 
interlocking of mainstream* *media and non-mainstream media and their 
production of new hybrid organizational structures and audience 
participation.