May 2015
Editorial
Barker, Martin (Editor). Thinking differently about “censorship”
Articles
Bergström, Annika. The contexts of internet use: From innovators to late majority
Knight, Victoria. Television, emotion and prison life: Achieving personal control
Matikainen, Janne. Motivations for content generation in social media
Reinhard, CarrieLynn D. & Kevin Miller. Men watching Sex and the City, My Little Pony, and Oklahoma: The interpretation of gender appropriateness in the reception of cross-gendered media products
Wroot, Jonathan. Reviewing distinctive DVD experiences:Â NEOÂ Magazine and the critical reception of Asian media distributors
Chambers, Amy C. & R. Lyle Skains. Scott Pilgrim vs. the multimodal mash-up: Film as participatory narrative
Themed Section 1: Theatre Audiences
Reason, Matthew & Kirsty Sedgman. Editors’ general introduction: Themed Section on theatre audiences
Sedgman, Kirsty. Introduction to Part 1: Be reasonable! On institutions, values, voices
Wilkinson, Julie. Dissatisfied ghosts:Â Theatre spectatorship and the production of cultural value
Hadley, Bree. Participation, politics and provocations: People with disabilities as non-conciliatory audiences
Schuitema, Karian. A provocation: Researching the diverse child audience in the UK
Richardson, John M. Live theatre in the age of digital technology: “Digital habitus” and the youth live theatre audience
Pasquier, Dominique. “The Cacophony of Failure”: Being an audience in a traditional theatre
Lindelof, Anja Mølle & Louise Ejgod Hansen. Talking about theatre: Audience development through dialogue
Johanson, Katya & Hilary Glow. A virtuous circle: The positive evaluation phenomenon in arts audience research
Reason, Matthew. Introduction to Part 2: Participations on Participation: Researching the “active” theatre audience
Gomme, Rachel. Not-so-close encounters: Searching for intimacy in one-to-one performance
Biggin, Rose. Reading fan mail: Communicating immersive experience in Punchdrunk’s Faust and The Masque of the Red Death
Wozniak, Jan. The value of being together? Audiences in Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man
Wilson, Anna. “Playing the Game”: Authenticity and invitation in Ontroerend Goed’s Audience
Gröschel, Uwe. Researching audiences through Walking Fieldwork
Breel, Astrid. Audience agency in participatory performance: A methodology for examining aesthetic experience
Themed Section 2: Tweeting the Olympics: International broadcasting soft power and social media
Gillespie, Marie & Ben O’Loughlin. Editorial Introduction: International news, social media and soft power: The London and Sochi Olympics as global media events
Burchell, Kenzie & Ben O’Loughlin, Marie Gillespie & Eva Nieto McAvoy. Soft power and its audiences: Tweeting the Olympics from London 2012 to Sochi 2014
Dennis, James, Marie Gillespie & Ben O’Loughlin. Tweeting the Olympics: Towards a methodological framework for Big Data analysis of audience engagement during global media events
Procter, Rob, Alex Voss & Ilia Lvov. Audience research and social media data: Opportunities and challenges
Willis, Alistair, Ali Fisher & Ilia Lvov. Mapping networks of influence: Tracking Twitter conversations through time and space
Shreim, Nour. Tweeting the Olympics: Transcending national, religious and gender identities on BBC Arabic
Voss, Alex & Marzieh Asgari-Targhi. The inescapable history and politics of Anglo-Iranian relations: Audience engagement with BBC Persian on social media during the London 2012 Olympics
Aslan, Billur, James Dennis & Ben O’Loughlin. Balding goes trolling? Cross-media amplification of controversy at the 2012 Olympics
Aslanyan, Anna & Marie Gillespie. The Russian-language Twittersphere, the BBC World Service and the London Olympics
Hutchings, Stephen Marie Gillespie, Ilya Yablokov, Ilia Lvov & Alexander Voss. Staging the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 on Russia Today and BBC World News: From soft power to geopolitical crisis
Burchell, Kenzie. Infiltrating the space, hijacking the platform: Pussy Riot, Sochi protests, and media events
Themed Section 3: EIFAC 2014
Dickson, Lesley-Ann. Section Introduction: Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference, 2014
Ateşman, Özge Özdüzen. The Politicisation and “Occupy”sation of the Istanbul Film Festival Audience
Dickson, Lesley-Ann. “Ah! Other Bodies!”: Embodied spaces, pleasures and practices at Glasgow Film Festival
Martinez, Josu, Miriam Frances, Katixa Agirre & Miren Manias-Muñoz. Zinegin Basque film festival: A non-existent audience revealed
Ralph, Sarah & Martin Barker. What a performance! Exploring audiences’ responses to film acting
Saryusz-Wolska, Magdalena. Watching films in the ruins: Cinema-going in early post-war Berlin
Reviews
Burland, Karen & Stephanie Pitts (eds.). Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience (reviewed by Rose Biggin)
Radbourne, Jennifer, Hilary Glow & Katya Johanson (eds.). The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts (reviewed by Kirsty Sedgman)