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Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (Participations)

Publisher :

The Digital Humanities Institute (DHI)

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Peer reviewed only
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Open Access
  • media
  • culture
e-ISSN :

1749-8716

Issue Frequency :

Monthly

Est. Year :

2003

Mobile :

01158467292

Country :

United Kingdom

Language :

English

APC :

YES

Impact Factor Assignee :

Google Scholar

Email :

editor@participations.org

Journal Descriptions

The purpose of Participations has always been, and continues to be, to provide a focal point – a coming-together-place – for all kinds of work under the general and generously understood heading of “audience and reception studies”. The Journal aims to include and embrace work across all fields of media and culture, from a wide range of theoretical and methodological bases, giving space to a full range of questions and debates. But – and it is an important qualification – coming together is not possible without recognising that audience and reception research has some distinctive, and even problematic histories. In talking to each other, in sharing our research and learning from each other, certain requirements are generated. When Participations was launched in 2003 by Professor Martin Barker, its goal was more than anything to offer a space for publishing research in our area. The frequent experience of scholars – both new and experienced – was that many Journals across the fields of media and culture, the humanities and social sciences were unsympathetic, even sometimes plain hostile, to work on audiences. It was seen as irrelevant, or even slightly threatening. Along with this went a recognition that, while there were places a-plenty (conferences, seminars, courses) where other kinds of ideas could get discussed within particular academic subject areas, researchers working within audience and reception studies could feel very alone. Opportunities for debating, cross-fertilisation, networking, building collaborations were few and far between. Yet at the same time the Journal’s founders were sensing that there was beginning to be a burgeoning kind of audience and reception research. Particular topic domains – books, theatre, music, dance – that had hardly touched audiences (except for limited commercial purposes) were beginning to do so. New media were becoming a new ‘hot topic’, and the expansion of ways of interacting with the media was attracting attention. The number of doctoral students attempting audience or reception research (the meanings and relations of those terms were of course under debate) was rising – although it could be a problem that sometimes their supervisors were insecurely grounded in appropriate methods and approaches. New ways of researching – online methods of recruitment, for instance, or the exploration of already-circulating materials (reviews, debates, ‘paratexts’), for instance – were developing, alongside rediscovery of older methods (eg, ethnographies). Alongside this, fan studies (with its attention to the distinctiveness of devotees) was emerging. New theoretical positions and debates were emerging. And so on. Participations is interested in publishing good work from any of the main traditions of research into audiences and reception processes and practices. We welcome work addressing topics across the full range of kinds of media and culture. We especially want to encourage and enable dialogue across traditions and approaches. We welcome many kinds of writing, including: reports of empirical research; critical and conceptual debates; republication of significant ‘lost’ pieces of work, and revaluations of old work felt to be still of value; state-or-the-art surveys, and critical reviews; and methodological discussions. We particularly welcome work which is: Clearly and fully presented, in ways which make evidence and argument clear to readers; Thoughtful about strengths, limitations and weaknesses, and about relations to previous and other traditions of work; Well-contextualised work that is aware of critical debates surrounding the areas of its expertise; Innovative in broaching new topics and areas, or presenting new ideas, methods, or evidence. Because of our sense of the state of our field (see our History and Founding Principles statement), we are particularly interested in receiving work which shows awareness of the range of approaches which have been developed and are being used. We welcome and encourage dialogue between approaches, and thoughtful critical evaluation of work conducted under any and all of them.


Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (Participations) is :

International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, media, culture , Online Monthly Journal

UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN , E-ISSN - 1749-8716, Established in - 2003, Impact Factor

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