December 2018
Editorial
Barker, Martin. Editorial introduction
Articles
Ames, Kate & Jacqui Ewart. “I entertain my friends”: Talk radio callers’ views on their role in entertaining the audience
Heiselberg, Lene. Expanding the toolbox: Researching reception of TV programs with a combination of EDA measurements and self-reports in applied audience research
Johanssen, Jacob. The neoliberal subject, reality TV and free association: A Freudian audience study of Embarrassing Bodies
Keinonen, Heidi, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Anna Maria Lemor & Andrea Esser. Modes of engagement with musical talent shows: Studying audience engagement as a set of experiences
Maltby, Richard, Dylan Walker & Mike Walsh. The Seat of Bob Parr’s Pants 1: Intuition, programming and the local cinema circuit
Seymour, Jessica. Homage, Collaboration, or Intervention: How framing fanart affects its interpretation
Smith, Martin Ian. Serb your enthusiasm: Anti-fandom and A Serbian Film
Van Belle, Jono. The everyday life of Auteurs du Cinema: The reception of Ingmar Bergman and his films
Themed Section: Cities of Culture
Tommarchi, Enrico, Louise Ejgod Hansen & Franco Bianchini. Problematising the question of participation in Capitals of Culture
Hudson, Christine, Linda Sandberg & Ulrika Schmauch. A place for culture? Building an Alternative House of Culture in the context of the 2014 European Capital of Culture in Umeå, Sweden
Chappell, Angela & Louise Ejgod Hansen. How is carnival art used to create participation in Cities and Capitals of Culture in the UK?
Eriksson, Birgit, Camilla Møhring Reestorff & Carsten Stage. Forms and potential effects of citizen participation in European cultural centres
Schielicke, Anna-Maria, Cornelia Mothes & Valentina Marcenaro. Apropos Prohlis: A participatory art project in the Run-Up to Dresden as the European Capital of Culture 2025
Nagy, Szilvia. Framing culture: Participatory governance in the European Capitals of Culture programme
Themed Section: Australasian Fan Studies Network
Chin, Bertha, Matt Hills & Renee Middlemost. Introduction to the FSN Australasia 2017 Themed Section
Willis, Ika. Beyond immersion: World as style
Comerford, Chris. Participatory toolboxes: Franchise fan wikis as tools of textual production
Balanzategui, Jessica, Liam Burke & Dan Golding. Recommending a new system: An audience-based approach to film categorisation in the digital age
Later, Naja. The monstrous narratives of transformative fandom
McAlister, Jodi. Bachelor Nation(s): The construction of romantic love and audience investment in The Bachelor/ette in Australia and the United States
Bainbridge, Jason. Peak fandom: Nostalgia, frustration and the shifting orders of fandom in Twin Peaks: The Return
Debates and Responses
Michelle, Carolyn, Charles Davis, Ann Hardy and Craig Hight. Response to Martin Barker’s “Rise of the Qualiquants”
Reviews
Cherry, Brigid. Cult Media, Fandom and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art (reviewed by Briony Hannell)
Feasey, Rebecca. Mothers on Mothers: Maternal Reading of Popular Television (reviewed by Helen Warner)
Hanich, Julian. The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (reviewed by Martin Barker)
Pangallo, Matteo A. Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare’s Theater (reviewed by Anna Blackwell)