[ecrea] CFP: Audiences, Cultures, Histories

Call for papers: /Participations/, Special Section on Audiences, 
Cultures, Histories

/Participations/is the pre-eminent peer-reviewed journal dedicated to 
audience studies, including all forms of audiencing. It is published 
on-line, two issues a year. Each issue includes one or more Themed 
Sections focused on a particular topic, and edited by a special editor. 
This is a call for papers for a section on Audiences, Cultures, 
Histories. The purpose of this themed section is to explore histories of 
audiencing, and hopefully reveal something new about the conjunctions of 
audiences, cultures and histories.

We are happy to receive a wide range of contributions related to essays 
on audience and reception researches. We welcome all kinds of standard 
essays (empirical, critical, conceptual and theoretical), as well as 
translations or important ‘lost’ or unavailable pieces of work 
(providing the author resolves any rights issues). In the interest of 
revealing new approaches, we welcome _any and all_ submissions 
consistent with the section title.

Topically the section is open to a wide range of proposals. This 
includes any situation in which a group of people act as audiences, 
short of everyday social interaction. It includes any times from ancient 
history to quite recent history, including digital media, and any places 
around the world from hunter-gatherers to nation-states. It may also 
include histories of discourse about audiences from moral panics to 
implied audiences in marketing and government policies.

In addition, proposals may be comparative, e.g. between histories of 
different media, or between countries or cultures. Historiographic 
submissions may address past progress or limitations and propose new 
directions, frameworks, approaches, methods, topics). Critical or 
conceptual work in either a history or a historiography, for example, 
might explore where and how to draw the topical line between audiencing 
and social interaction more generally.

Submit proposals between 300 to 500 words by email to Richard Butsch, 
Professor Emeritus, Rider University, (butsch /at/ rider.edu) 
<mailto:(butsch /at/ rider.edu)>. The email should introduce yourself, describe 
your qualifications to produce the proposed paper and your current stage 
in this project, with an abbreviated /curriculum vitae/ and the abstract 
as attachments. _If you are uncertain_ whether your topic fits the 
section, before you submit a proposal, you may email me at 
(butsch /at/ rider.edu) <mailto:(butsch /at/ rider.edu)>.

After your proposal is accepted, you should anticipate that you will 
have four months to prepare and submit your paper. Within six weeks of 
its submission, you will receive a decision and any recommendations for 
revision. The paper in its final form will be resubmitted in two months, 
which will be reviewed and confirmation given within a month. The time 
of actual publication will depend upon the time necessary to accumulate 
sufficient proposals and paper of satisfactory quality.



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