1– 2 September 2011
University of Westminster
London, UK
Sponsored by the COST project,
Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies
Presented in association with the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Audience Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Keynote speakers include:
— Nancy Baym, author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age;
— Jean Burgess, co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture;
— Adriana de Souza e Silva, co-author of Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces and Net Locality;
— Patricia G. Lange, co-author of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out;
— David Gauntlett, author of Making is Connecting.
Transforming Audiences 3 will also cover general themes of interest to audience/user researchers, including:
- Audiences, identities and popular culture
- Citizen media and new political communication
- Transnational audiences and diasporas
- Audiences and users around the world
- DIY media, 'we media', 'user generated content', and dispersed creativity
- The economics and business of contemporary media audiences
- New methodologies in audience studies
- Changing audience/producer relations
- Philosophical and theoretical paradigms, and ethical concerns
