[Air-L] Participations: Volume 17 issue 1 out now!

[Judith Rosenbaum-Andre]

Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies has just released
its latest issue. This open-access journal features a series of new
articles and a special section entitled "Twitter, social movements, and the
logic of connective action: Activism in the 21st century"

With an editorial introduction by Ernest Mathijs, Professor of Film at the
University of British Columbia, this issue is once again filled with
relevant and up-to-date insights into audience behaviors. The issue
features five articles that present research on a variety of issues, from
refugee audiences as media participants, to the adaptation of Marvel comics
in Finland, streaming theater performances, the constitution of activist
fan communities, and how the mental models approach can be used to
understand narrative performance.

The special section, co-edited by Judith Rosenbaum and Gwen Bouvier,
unpacks what current forms of Twitter activism look like, how individuals
use the platform to collaborate to engender change, and how Twitter
activism can be both effective and problematic. The section features four
articles that provide elaborate on several case studies where Twitter was
used to advance a cause; from museum-based activism, to the #CripTheVote
movement, to the networked volunteering that sprung up after the Sardininan
floods, and #BlackLivesMatter.

The issue can be found here:
https://www.participations.org/Volume%2017/Issue%201/contents.htm




-- 
Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Journalism
University of Maine
414 Dunn Hall
Orono, ME 04469

www.juditherosenbaum.com/
@JudithRBaum