[Commlist] Call for Presentations: Audience Conference

Call for presentations: Audience Conference, 6 July 2023  Hosted by 
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City 
University
 Audience is one of the pillars of media studies, alongside industry 
and text. Accordingly, the current Birmingham Centre for Media and 
Cultural Research (BCMCR) research theme returns to audience as a 
concept, to consider methods for studying and addressing audiences in 
our own research practice, and how we train our students to think about 
and to study audiences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As part 
of this project, we are holding a one-day conference to share current 
theorisations and uses of audience as a concept.

There are many questions we can ask about the state of audience today. 
For example, how do media literacy and misinformation, populism and 
democracy, short-form viral content, and different humanities ‘turns’ 
(archival, transnational, memory, etc.) reshape or confirm scholarly 
views of what an audience is? Is there still a ‘mass’ audience, in the 
UK or elsewhere? Are the methods we use for audience research fit for 
purpose, given the huge swathes of people who have, historically, been 
left out of audience research?

Areas of interest can include but are not limited to:
    Audience as viewer/listener/reader
    Audience as commodity
    Audience as consumer, user, player, and/or citizen
    Audience as participant/producer
    Audience in the singular or plural
    Fan audience(s)
    National/international/transnational audience(s)
    Methodology and audience research
    Pedagogy and audience research
 Please send 300-word abstracts (for individual presentations no more 
than 20 minutes long) and a short author bio to (bcmcr.audience /at/ gmail.com) 
by 5 May 2023. We aim to communicate decisions by 19 May 2023.
Panel proposals are also accepted: please submit a rationale alongside 
abstracts for each contribution (max. 750 words total, rationale and 
abstracts together).




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