[eccr] Participations: new issue out and call for submissions

>Announcement & Call for submissions
>
>The second issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception 
>studies, a new journal which aims to provide an on-line, interdisciplinary 
>forum for the fields of audience and reception studies has just come out.
>
>Issue #2 (May, 2004)
>Matthew Reason on theatre audiences and 'liveness'; Karen Qureshi on 
>Edinburgh Pakistani men as 'audiences' for each other; Fiona Carruthers on 
>'hack fiction'and the rules of fan fiction communities; Ellen Hijmans on 
>readers'repertoires of response to the Dutch magazine YES; and Martin 
>Barker's response to Stephen Kline's critique of the the St. Louis Amici 
>Brief. Plus reviews.
>
>Submissions
>Particip@tions is always on the look-out for contributions from a wide 
>range of disciplines that focus on audience research. It publishes 
>contributions from various approaches, such as, sociology, psychology, 
>anthropology, linguistics/discourse theory and cultural and media studies. 
>Additionally, since important notions about audiences have emerged from 
>outside the 'mainstream'of media audience research, Particip@tions will 
>also publish noteworthy contributions from fields such as museum and 
>heritage studies; literary studies; educational studies, as well as 
>interesting contributions from fields outside academia.
>
>
>Briefly -
>Particip@tions aims to
>    * publish research from different approaches, without the limitations 
> on length and presentation of evidence which can cramp and weaken such work;
>    * encourage open debate between different approaches and methodologies;
>    * encourage collaborations across academic disciplines, areas and 
> countries;
>    * provide a place where people may find materials and bibliographies 
> for use in teaching, and research training;
>    * provide a focal point for the development of the broad field, 
> including the organization of conferences and other kinds of fora.
>Particip@tions is available full-text for no charge at: 
><http://www.participations.org/>www.participations.org

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