Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology
9th – 10th, June 2016
Keynotes: Associate Professor Sean Redmond (Deakin University, Australia)
Associate Professor Catherine Fowler (University of Otago, New Zealand)
We are surrounded by media texts – films, television shows, songs, comics, videogames to name but a few. With the growing range of technologies at our disposal, our relationships with media texts and practices are continually evolving, opening up new avenues for inquiry into audiences and reception research. What do these texts mean to us? How do they shape our lives and experiences? This conference is interested in new ways of making sense of these special relationships between texts and audiences.
This interdisciplinary conference invites papers to address the ways in which audiences receive, create, engage with and experience texts. Papers that address (but are not limited to) new approaches to the following topic areas are welcome:
• Youth audiences
• Fandom
• Celebrity culture
• Paratexts
• Relocating moving images
• Audience research and methodologies
• Affective audiences
• Audiences and intellectual properties
• Audiences and space
• Old versus new media in audience studies
For more information on the masterclass and the workshop, and how to register, please contact the conference conveners via the conference email address: mfco_ecg@otago.ac.nz or check the departmental website: www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/research
Presenters at Revisiting Audiences will be offered the opportunity for a refereed publication in Working Paper Series.