[ecrea] A multimedia overview of the achievements of the COST Action Transforming Audiences Transforming Societies

A multimedia overview of the achievements of the COST Action Transforming Audiences Transforming Societies

After the end of the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, the Action Steering Groups finalised its last project: To produce an accessible but yet academic overview of its achievements. The Action website now gives a fascinating overview of the Action’s history, achievements and results.

Feel free to share the link:http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu.

The website is structured through a series a questions, such as:
* Which insights about audience transformations came out of the Action?
* What are some of the key issues and challenges for the future?
* What was published?
* Why did the Cost Action matter to the participants?
* Where and how did the Action meet?

The material is based on video interviews made during the final Action conference in Ljubljana, in February 2014. With this final multimedia project, the Action has experimented with a rarely used form of science communication, which allows to communicate academic content in an accessible and dynamic way. The multimedia project was carried out by Myriam Dulieu, Cassiopée Henaff and Anaïs Michiels, master students at Universty of Louvain (UCL), Belgium, and was implemented online by the host of the Action’s website COMMIT OÜ.

> From March 2010 to February 2014, the COST Action Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies has coordinated and encouraged 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. Four interconnected but distinct areas concerning audiences were addressed by four different 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.

The initiative to launch a COST Action on audience transformations started in 2007 among a group of members of the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). Ultimately over 300 participants from 33 countries joined the Action.

The European COST program (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) provides support for all types of networking activities (such as workshops, conferences, and short-term scientific exchanges), but not the research itself. Its goal is to coordinate nationally funded research on a European level, connect researchers on a regular basis and reduce fragmentation in the research field. Further information at:http://www.cost.eu


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New publication:
Special journal issue on Histories of Media(ted) Participation
Edited by Nico Carpentier&  Peter Dahlgren
CM - Communication Management Quarterly, Nr. 30 (2014)
Free to download from: http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/pub/CM30-SE-Web.pdf
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New report:
Sociaal engagement, maatschappelijk middenveld en online media (in Dutch)
Free to download from: http://www.kbs-frb.be/publication.aspx?id=309904&langtype=2067
Engagement social, société civile et médias en ligne (in French)
Free to download from: http://www.kbs-frb.be/publication.aspx?id=309904&langtype=2060
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