[ecrea] Participations 9.2 (including four Special Sections)

I hope some of you will be interested to know that the new issue of 
/Participations/ has just gone online.  A massive issue, with more than 
40 contributions, it contains -- apart from some individual essays -- 
four Special Sections: on comicbook audiences; on music audiences; on 
multiplatform audiences; and on multimethod research into audiences (the 
last two arising out of European-supported COST Action projects).  Plus 
three reviews.

As ever, you will find the Journal at www.participations.org 
<http://www.participations.org>.

Happy holidays (soon ...) everyone.

Martin Barker


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Contents


Editorial

    Turnbull, Sue (Joint Editor):

    'Editorial introduction'



Articles

    Bore, Inger-Lise Kalviknes:

    'Focus Group Research and TV Comedy Audiences'

    George, Kelly C.:

    'Self-Help as Women's Popular Culture in Suburban New Jersey: an 
Ethnographic Perspective'

    Redfern, Nick:

    'Correspondence Analysis of Genre Preferences in UK Film Audiences'





    Special Section: Comic-Book Audiences

        Sabin, Roger:

        'Special Section Introduction'

        Barker, Martin:

        'The Reception of Joe Sacco's Palestine'

        Berenstein, Ofer:

        'Comic-Book Fans' Recommendations Ceremony: A Look at the 
Inter-personal Communication Patterns of a Unique Readers/Speakers 
Community'

        Burke, Liam:

        '"Superman in Green": An Audience Study of Comic-Book Film 
Adaptations Thor and Green Lantern'

        Gordon, Ian:

        'Writing to Superman: Towards an Understanding of the Social 
Networks of Comic Book Fans'

        Patrick, Kevin:

        '"Phans", not "Fans": The Phantom and Australian Comic-Book Fandom'

        Sabeti, Shari:

        '"Arts of Time and Space": the Perspectives of a Teenage 
Audience on Reading Novels and Graphic Novels'

        Woo, Benjamin:

        'Understanding Understandings of Comics: Reading and Collecting 
as Media-Oriented Practices'





    Special Section: Music Audiences

        Bennett, Lucy:

        'Special Section Introduction'

        Anderson, Lauren:

        '"That's how it's supposed to make you feel": Talking with 
Audiences about 'Both Sides Now' and Love Actually'

        Anderson, Tonya:

        'Still Kissing Their Posters Goodnight: Female Fandom and the 
Politics of Popular Music'

        Avdeeff, Melissa:

        'Technological Engagement and Musical Eclecticism: An 
Examination of Contemporary Listening Practices'

        Baym, Nancy K.:

        'Fans or Friends? Seeing Social Media As Musicians Do'

        Duffett, Mark:

        'Boosting Elvis: a Content Analysis of Editorial Stories from 
One Fan Club Magazine'

        Kaun, Anne & Fredrik Stiernstedt:

        'Media Memories: The Case of Youth Radio DT64'

        Potts, Liza:

        'Amanda Palmer and the #LOFNOTC: How Online Fan Participation 
is Rewriting Music Labels'

        Zaborowski, Rafal:

        'Simple Unchanging Stories about Things We Already Know': 
Japanese youth and popular songs'





    Special Section: Audience Involvement and New Production Paradigms 
[COST Action]

        Noguera, José-Manuel, Francesca Pasquali & Mélanie Bourdaa:

        'Special Section Introduction'

        Hills, Matt:

        'Torchwood's Trans-transmedia: Media Tie-ins and Brand 
"Fanagement"'

        García-Avilés, José Alberto:

        'Roles of Audience Participation in Multiplatform Television: 
from Fans and Consumers, to Collaborators and Activists'

        Artieri, Giovanni Boccia:

        'Productive Publics and Transmedia Participation'

        Vobic, Igor & Ana Milojevic:

        'Societal Roles of Online Journalists in Slovenia and Serbia: 
Self-Perceptions in Relation to the Audience and Print Journalists'

        Cordeiro, Paula:

        'Radio becoming R@dio: Convergence, Interactivity and 
Broadcasting Trends in Perspective''

        Bennett, Lucy:

        'Transformations through Twitter: The England Riots, Television 
Viewership and Negotiations of Power through Media Convergence'

        Horváth, Dóra, Tamás Csordás & Nóra Nyiro:

        'Re-written by Machine and New Technology: Did the Internet 
Kill the Video Star?'

        Grandío, María del Mar & Joseba Bonaut:

        'Transmedia Audiences and Television Fiction: a Comparative 
Approach between Skins (UK) and El Barco (Spain)'

        Berriman, Liam:

        'Negotiating Proximity: The Co-Existence of Habbo and its Fansites'

        Lin, Yu-Wei:

        'The Emergence of the Techno Elite Audience and Free/Open 
Source Content: A Case Study on BBC Backstage'

        Villi, Mikko:

        'Social Curation in Audience Communities: UDC (User-distributed 
Content) in the Networked Media Ecosystem'





    Special Section: Multi-Method Audience Research [COST Action]

        Schrøder, Kim Christian, Uwe Hasebrink, Sascha Hölig and Martin 
Barker:

        'Special Section Introduction'

        Aveyard, Karina:

        'Observer, Mediator and Empiricist:  an Account of 
Methodological Fusion in the Study of Rural Cinema Audiences in Australia'

        Barker, Martin & Ernest Mathijs:

        'Researching World Audiences: the Experience of a Complex 
Methodology'

        Biltereyst, Daniël, Kathleen Lotze & Philippe Meers:

        'Triangulation in Historical Audience Research: Reflections and 
Experiences from a Multi-Methodological Research Project on Cinema 
Audiences in Flanders'

        Courtois, Cédric:

        'When Two Worlds Meet: an Inter-Paradigmatic Mixed Method 
Approach to Convergent Audiovisual Media Consumption'

        Dhoest, Alexander:

        'Mixed Methods, Bifocal Vision: Combining Quantitative and 
Qualitative Data to Assess Public Service Performance'

        Hasebrink, Uwe &Hanna Domeyer:

        'Media Repertoires as patterns of behaviour and as Meaningful 
Practices: a Multimethod Approach to Media Use in Converging Media 
Environments'

        Nyiro, Nóra:

        'Nested Analysis-based Mixed Method Research of Television and 
Video-recording Audiences'

        Schrøder, Kim Christian:

        'Methodological Pluralism as a Vehicle of Qualitative 
Generalization'





Reviews

    Gelly, Christophe & David Roche (eds.):

    'Approaches to Film and Reception Theories / Cinéma et Théories de 
la Réception' (Reviewed by Martin Barker)

    Miller, Daniel:

    'The Comfort of Things, and Stuff' (Reviewed by Phil Ramsey)

    Thumim, Nancy:

    'Self-Representation and Digital Culture' (Reviewed by Justin Battin)