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Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
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Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies.
NEW ISSUE: November 2024: https://www.participations.org
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We're pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.1, spanning Frisian identity in Aotearoa/NZ, Canadianness & the Barenaked Ladies, Turkish quality drama, seagoing spectators, transnational identities, conspiracies & a special section on Girl Audiences in the 'Girlscape'! www.participations.org
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
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CFP: Special Issue Participations on SVODs, audiences and democracy in Europe. Full details can be found on our FB Group! :)

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June 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Call for peer reviewers! :)

We are looking to expand our peer reviewers, particularly those from or with expertise in the Global South and underrepresented groups. Please drop us an email at editor@participations.org with your name and affiliation, as well as your topics of interest! :)
June 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Announcing our new Facebook group! www.facebook.com/groups/31292...

Join us, won't you? :)
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May 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We're pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.1, spanning Frisian identity in Aotearoa/NZ, Canadianness & the Barenaked Ladies, Turkish quality drama, seagoing spectators, transnational identities, conspiracies & a special section on Girl Audiences in the 'Girlscape'! www.participations.org
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
www.participations.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In case you missed it the first time round - our latest issue covers some fantastic scholarship in audience and reception studies
We are pleased to announce the publication of our new issue 20.2, spanning topics such as live art song events, cinema in Turkey and China, American pulp magazines, sexual violence in Game of Thrones, and male cinema-going experiences in Argentina: www.participations.org
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
www.participations.org
December 8, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Reposting the below in case anyone who missed it the first time round would like to be added - let us know below
As we haven’t seen one yet, we’ve started an Audience Research starter pack. If you work in audience, user, fan or reception studies in any discipline and would like to be included, let us know below go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u
November 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
As we haven’t seen one yet, we’ve started an Audience Research starter pack. If you work in audience, user, fan or reception studies in any discipline and would like to be included, let us know below go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u
November 14, 2024 at 9:36 AM
CONVERSATION: 'Connections, Community, Creativity: Transcript from a Podcast on Online Music Fandoms and Mental Health' by Lauren Alex O’Hagan and Michael Lydon: www.participations.org/20-02-09-oha...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
‘"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' by Stewart Campbell: www.participations.org/20-02-08-cam...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
'Pulp Readers, Reader Departments, and Reader Perceptions of Genre in Astounding' by Zi-Ling Yan: www.participations.org/20-02-07-yan...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:32 PM
'Behaving Badly at the Movies: Taste, Emotions, and Sociability in Buenos Aires’ Cinemas (1940-1970)' by Marina Moguillansky and Pablo Salas Tonello: www.participations.org/20-02-06-mog...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
'Viewing Sexual Violence: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones' by Venla Korhonen, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Jyrki Korpua & Tanja Välisalo: www.participations.org/20-02-05-kor...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
'Problematic Encounters with Wolf Warrior II: Antithetic Reception of “China in Africa” Amongst Chinese and African Audiences' by Yu Xiang, Xiaoxing Zhang & Jiarong Zhang: www.participations.org/20-02-04-xia...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:30 PM
'Informal Audience Training with Cinema Puzzles, Tests and Crosswords in Turkish Magazines (1937-1990)' by Aslı Gön: www.participations.org/20-02-03-gon...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:29 PM
'Examining the Audience’s Reaction to The Black Drum – Signed Musical Production' by Jody H. Cripps www.participations.org/20-02-02-cri...
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November 13, 2024 at 5:29 PM
We are pleased to announce the publication of our new issue 20.2, spanning topics such as live art song events, cinema in Turkey and China, American pulp magazines, sexual violence in Game of Thrones, and male cinema-going experiences in Argentina: www.participations.org
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
www.participations.org
November 13, 2024 at 5:26 PM