November 2016
Editorial
Barker, Martin & Sue Turnbull. Farewell to Aberystwyth, good morning Huddersfield
Articles
Bourdaa, Mélanie & Javier Lozano Delmar. Contemporary participative TV audiences: Identity, authorship and advertising practices between fandom
Cashman, David. Voyage to the Stars: Interaction between fans and musicians on cruise ship music festivals
Holladay, Holly Willson. How far we’ve come? Nostalgia and post-feminism in Mad Men
Johnston, Keith M., Ed Vollans & Fred L. Greene. Watching the trailer: Researching the film trailer audience
Joyce, Zita. “Thank goodness for our little radio”: Researching post-quake radio audiences
Lee, Hyunji. Developing identities:Â Gossip Girl, Fan activities, and online fan community in Korea
Taylor, Lisa. “He’s … making our North”: Affective engagements with place in David Hockney’s landscapes from “A Bigger Picture”
Themed Section: The World Hobbit Project
Barker, Martin & Ernest Mathijs. Introduction to the Project
Baltruschat, Doris, Jennifer Grek Martin & Ernest Mathijs. The reception of The Hobbit in Canada: does fantasy need technology?
Barker, Martin. An investigation of the role of affiliations to “authors” in audience responses to The Hobbit films
Hasebrink, Uwe & Ingrid Paus-Hasebrink. Linking fantasy to everyday life: Patterns of orientation and connections to reality in the case of The Hobbit
Hipfl, Brigitte & Jasmin Kulterer. Greed, war, hope, love and friendship: Contemporary structures of feeling and the audience’s readings of broader themes in The Hobbit
Hirsjärvi, Irma, Urpo Kovala, Maria Ruotsalainen. Patterns of reception in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden: Differences and convergences
Ilan, Jonathan & Amit Kama. Where has all the magic gone? Audience interpretive strategies of The Hobbit’s film-novel rivalry
Jacks, Nilda, Valquiria Michela John, Daniela Schmitz, Dulce Mazer, Henrique Denis Lucas, Laura Seligman, Maria Clara Monteiro, Paula Coruja & Sarah Moralejo da Costa. Reception of The Hobbit trilogy: Brazilian data
Jerslev, Anne, Christian Kobbernagel & Kim Schrøder. The importance of sampling: Building complementary insights about reception experiences of The Hobbit film trilogy with different survey sampling strategies
Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, Maria Ruotsalainen & Tanja Välisalo. The World Hobbit Project in Finland: Audience responses and transmedial user practices
Midkiff, Emily. Growing out of it: The Hobbit films and young people
Mikhaylova, Larisa, Elena Pronina, Marina Knyazeva & Irina Novitskaya. Search for moral support, or escape from reality? Media psychological analysis of the Russian segment in the World Hobbit Project Database
Schmeink, Lars. How Bilbo lost his innocence: Media audiences and the evaluation of The Hobbit as a “Children’s Film”
Trobia, Alberto. Selecting significant respondents from large audience datasets: The case of the World Hobbit Project
Trültzsch-Wijnen, Sascha & Vanda de Sousa. Watching The Hobbit in two European countries: The views of younger audiences and readers in Austria and Portugal
Veenstra, Aleit, Annemarie Kersten, Tonny Krijnen, Daniël Biltereyst & Philippe Meers. Understanding The Hobbit: the cross-national and cross-linguistic reception of a global media product in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Reviews
Dovey, Lindiwe. Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals (reviewed by Dorota Ostrowska)
Sedgman, Kirsty. Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales (reviewed by Helen Freshwater)
Vasquez, Camilla. The Discourse of Online Consumer Reviews (reviewed by Julia Kennedy)