[ecrea] CFP Tripodos Journal - From spectators to users: exploring the ongoing transformation of media audiences

The Spanish journal Tripodos (www.tripodos.com) has opened an 
international Call for Papers mainly addressed to scholars involved in 
Audience Research. Under the suggesting title of "From spectators to 
users: exploring the ongoing transformation of media audiences", both 
Peter Lunt and Miguel Vicente, will edit this special issue. This call 
is clearly well connected to the work that the IAMCR Audience Section 
has been conducting since several years, so we kindly ask you to 
distribute it among all your peers working in topics related with 
Audience Research.

You can access the full CfP in the enclosed file and at the following 
website address:
http://fcc.blanquerna.url.edu/tripodos/CPF%20AUDIENCE__ENG.pdf

The deadline for receiving full texts is 10 February 2015.

If you have any question, please contact either Peter Lunt 
((pl108 /at/ leicester.ac.uk)) or Miguel Vicente ((miguelvm /at/ soc.uva.es) / 
(mvicentem /at/ yahoo.es)).

Please below you can also read a short abstract of this call:

Abstract: The role of media in the life of audiences has experienced a 
noticeable transformation during recent decades due to rapid 
technological transformation and the integration of media into social 
and institutional practices. Consequently, the concept of ‘audience’ 
itself has shifted to embrace new perspectives and approaches. Starting 
from the era of mass communication in which audiences were either 
conceived of in terms of motivations and effects or as an aggregated 
audience as public, we increasingly recognize the new potential of 
audiences as members of mediated social networks, as consumers of 
diverse media contents on complex combinations of modes of deliver and 
as content-producers. All of which challenges traditional flows of 
communication in which audience research placed television as its core 
medium in a domestic context of reception.
The tensions inherent in the study of audiences of linear media often 
focused on a debate over the power of the media and of the audience 
–between the passive and the active audience. In contrast, the new media 
environment engages audiences in a variety of contexts, for a range of 
purposes and with varying forms of being and audience. Consequently, we 
invite papers that deal with the ways people are getting involved in 
contemporary communication configurations, reflecting on how 
individuals, broader social groups and institutions and media producers 
frame the variety of forms of audiencehood.

Salud / Cheers
Miguel Vicente Mariño
Profesor Titular / Associate Professor
Secretario Académico - Facultad de CC. Sociales, Jurídicas y de la 
Comunicación
Universidad de Valladolid - Campus de Segovia
ECREA Executive Board Member - www.ecrea.eu
IAMCR Audience Section Vice-Chair - www.iamcr.org/s-wg/mcpc/aud
+34637873223 / (mvicentem /at/ yahoo.es) / @miguelvicente
http://sociologiaytrabajosocial.sitios.uva.es/?q=node/58

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