Event Details

The symposium explores new directions and methodologies in audience studies, and it is organised by the Audience Network @ Lancaster University. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London).

You are warmly invited to attend the symposium “Researching Media Audiences from the Movie Theatre to the Digital Age

Methods, Challenges, Opportunities” which will take place on 29 April 2024 at Lancaster University (BLN - Bowland Nth SR 10).

The symposium explores new directions and methodologies in audience studies, and it is organised by the Audience Network @ Lancaster University. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London).

This is a free event, but registration is required: https://forms.office.com/e/9MZHtPY3mX

Programme:

Welcome & Registration 9:30-10:00

10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks: Dalila Missero, The Audience Network @ Lancaster University

10:15-11:30 Panel 1: Researching Historical Cinema-Going

Chair: Johnathan Ilott

“Looking for the invisible woman in plain sight: female audiences in the 1910s and 1920s” Veronica Johnson, Maynooth University

"Tracing Cinema-Going Habits Through Local Newspapers: A Case Study of Udine" Eleonora Roaro, NABA Milan

“Refreshing minds and connecting people: researching cinemagoing memories among Chilean women” María Paz Peirano, Universidad de Chile/ Antwerp University

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45- 13:00 Keynote Address

Prof. Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary University of London

“Life history methods in audience research: origins and principles”

Chair: Dalila Missero

13:00- 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:45 Panel 2: Fandom and digital participation

Chair: Zoe Crombie

“Contemplating the Neuroaffirmative Potential of Fandom and Cultural Studies” Georgia Thomas-Parr, University College London

“Fleeting Fandom. Communities in Crisis and Methodological Transformations” Anja Boato, Sapienza Università di Roma

“Rethinking Audience Participation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” Eva Cheuk-Yin, Li, Lancaster University

“Extending the cinema: Spaces and cultures of cinema-going in VR film exhibition” Laryssa Whittaker, Royal Holloway, University of London

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Panel 3: New Methodological Insights and Perspectives on Audiences

Chair: Patricia Prieto-Blanco

“TV audiences as ‘affective superaddressee’: A Production Studies account of imagined audiences in an illiberal democracy” Siao Yuong (Rong) Fong, Lancaster University

“Bridging the Gap Between Audience Research and Cognitive Film Studies: How an Empirical Study of Identification with Fictional Characters Can Help to Solve Interdisciplinary Squabbles” Hanna Kubicka, University of the Arts London

“Festivals in Times of conflict: audience responses of London Palestine Film Festival 2023” Maryam Ghorbankarimi (Lancaster University) and Yael Friedman (University of Portsmouth)

17:30-17:45 Closing Remarks