[Commlist] New Issue of Participations 20(2) published

We are pleased to announce the publication of *Participations*, Vol. 20, 
Issue 2 (https://www.participations.org <https://www.participations.org/>).

The Table of Contents is below.


Participations invites submissions from any discipline that engages with 
audience research or receptions studies. Please email any submissions to 
(editor /at/ participations.org) <mailto:(editor /at/ participations.org)>. We also 
welcome submissions to our new ‘Conversations’ 
(https://www.participations.org/conversations/) section that do not fit 
the traditional article format.

Please remember that - as we are an independent journal - we are limited 
in our resources and staffing. Therefore you may experience delays in 
receiving a response from us. We thank you in advance for your patience.


Volume 20, Issue 2
November 2024 – Current Issue

Editorial

Editors’ Introduction
Elizabeth Evans, Daniela Treveri Gennari and Bridgette Wessels

Articles

Examining the Audience’s Reaction to The Black Drum – Signed Musical 
Production
Jody H. Cripps

Informal Audience Training with Cinema Puzzles, Tests and Crosswords in 
Turkish Magazines (1937-1990)
Aslı Gön

Problematic Encounters with Wolf Warrior II: Antithetic Reception of 
“China in Africa” Amongst Chinese and African Audiences
Yu Xiang, Xiaoxing Zhang and Jiarong Zhang

Viewing Sexual Violence: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones
Venla Korhonen, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Jyrki Korpua and Tanja Välisalo

Behaving Badly at the Movies: Taste, Emotions, and Sociability in Buenos 
Aires’ Cinemas (1940-1970)
Marina Moguillansky and Pablo Salas Tonello

Pulp Readers, Reader Departments, and Reader Perceptions of Genre in 
Astounding
Zi-Ling Yan

‘But heck isn’t that the point? Art song is representative of life in 
its wildest, messiest sense’ – Complex Interpretative Song Worlds and 
the Audiences that Inhabit Them
Stewart Campbell

Conversations
Connections, Community, Creativity: Transcript from a Podcast on Online 
Music Fandoms and Mental Health
Lauren Alex O’Hagan and Michael Lydon

Book Reviews
Review: Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Reading Bestsellers. 
Recommendation Culture and the Multimodal Reader, Elements in Publishing 
and Book Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Heidi Lucja Liedke

Review: Kate Craddock and Helen Freshwater, Theatre and its Audiences: 
Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis, London: Bloomsbury 
Publishing, 2024.
Emma McDowell

Review: Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil, The Digital Double Bind. 
Change and Stasis in the Middle East, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Zoe Hurley
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