scholarly journals Audiences: a decade of transformations – reflections from the CEDAR network on emerging directions in audience analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1257-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjana Das
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Environments

In this essay, I examine the 10 years between 2004 and 2014 as a transformative, if uncertain, decade for audience analysis, faced with rapidly fragmenting media environments. Next, reflecting on the research done by a 14 country network I direct – Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research (CEDAR), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom – I examine the features of this decade of transformation, paying attention to the intellectual markers that punctuate this decade and make it stand out in the history of audience studies. I focus on four pivotal axes of transformations which emerge out of the analysis conducted by the CEDAR network and argue that these four represent significant ways in which audience analysis has lived through an uncertain but exciting decade. These axes are audiences’ changing coping strategies with hyper-connected and intrusive media, audience interruptions of media content flows, the co-option of audience labour, and the micro–macro politics of audience action. I conclude by locating this transformative decade 2004–2014 against a longer backdrop of uncertain moments and periods of flux in the field, arguing, that not unlike those points in time, now too, audience analysis has reached a newer, more unknown, but very significant phase.

scholarly journals Critical, agentic and trans-media: Frameworks and findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjana Das ◽  
Brita Ytre-Arne
Keyword(s):  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Analysis Task ◽  
The Future

We write this article presenting frameworks and findings from an international network on audience research, as we stand 75 years from Herta Herzog’s classic investigation of radio listeners, published in Lazarsfeld and Stanton’s 1944 war edition of Radio Research. The article aims to contribute to and advance a rich strand of self-reflexive stock-taking and sorting of future research priorities within the transforming field of audience analysis, by drawing on the collective efforts of CEDAR – Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research – a 14-country network (2015–2018) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom, which conducted a foresight analysis exercise on developing current trends and future scenarios for audiences and audience research in the year 2030. First, we wish to present the blueprint of what we did and how we did it – by discussing the questions, contexts and frameworks for our project. We hope this is useful for anyone considering a foresight analysis task, an approach we present as an innovative and rigorous tool for assessing and understanding the future of a field. Second, we present findings from our analysis of pivotal transformations in the field and the future scenarios we constructed for audiences, as media technologies rapidly change with the arrival of the Internet of Things and changes on many levels occur in audience practices. These findings not only make sense of a transformative decade that we have just lived through but they present possibilities for the future, outlining areas for individual and collective intellectual commitment.

scholarly journals Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 203-219
Author(s):  
Pierre Alexis Mével
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Video Material

This article examines the importance of paratext – theoretically and practically – in getting D/deaf audiences to engage with theatrical performances. Our notion of ‘accessible paratext’ necessarily involves multimodal forms of translation, and intersemiotic interactions, to provide a crucial point of access for D/deaf members of the public who often feel that theatrical performances are ‘not for them.’ The article focuses on intersemiotic multimedial translation in the form of creative captions for the theatre and, more specifically, for paratextual video material created as part of a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom) to showcase integrated captions in live performances. The widespread perception that the theatre is not for D/deaf audiences appears to be driven by several factors, including the fact that many members of the D/deaf community have neither heard of nor seen integrated theatre and because access to integrated performances is not forthcoming. Information about such performances, in the form of what we here define as paratext, either does not exist or is not communicated in a way that makes the accessible nature of the performances tangible to members of the D/deaf audience. We demonstrate the extent to which several semiotic systems (sign language, spoken words, and written captions) interacting on the stage or a screen can provide a much-needed gateway to theatrical performances, bringing marginalized audiences back to the theatre and improving the shows’ accessibility.

scholarly journals Advocating Classics Education – a new national project

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Edith Hall ◽  
Arlene Holmes-Henderson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
National Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
King's College ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Do So

The ‘Advocating Classics Education’ (ACE) project is an initiative led by Professor Edith Hall and Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, based at King's College London. The project seeks to extend the availability of Classical Civilisation and Ancient History (CC/AH) qualifications to learners in non-fee-paying schools across the United Kingdom. To do so, Professor Hall has been awarded a Leadership Fellowship of £250,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project's full title is ‘Studying Classical Civilisation in Britain: recording the past and fostering the future’ and it runs from 1st May 2017 to 31st August 2018.

scholarly journals Performing the intermedial across Brazilian cinema

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Tamara Courage ◽  
Albert Elduque
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Brazilian Cinema ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Hybrid Forms

Intermediality as a theoretical and methodological perspective champions impurity. Overall, it is concerned with the interaction, contamination, and mixture between different media, breaking down existing barriers that currently exclude hybrid forms of artistic expression, which also inevitably exposes the limits of media specificity. Musical performance constitutes a privileged space to reflect on intermediality. It brings in not only music, but a mixture which includes literature, theatre, dancing and even painting and architecture. Music performance calls for all these artistic practices and articulates them through the song. Then, when it is filmed by a camera and recorded with microphones to be exhibited on a screen, new layers of meaning are added. This Alphaville issue is concerned with the performance of the intermedial in Brazilian cinema through music performance. It is an output of the project “Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method”, a shared endeavour by the University of Reading and the Federal University of São Carlos which was developed between 2015 and 2019, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in Brazil

Pests and People in Stef Smith’s Human Animals

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Isla Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
British Culture

Throughout the history of western theatre, animals onstage have invariably been read in relation to human concerns. The reviews of Stef Smith’s Human Animals (2016) at the Royal Court followed in this tradition, interpreting the play’s central animal players as symbolic stand-ins for humans. By examining the particularity of the non-human animals at the centre of Human Animals’ urban eco-crisis, this article aims to rectify previous anthropocentric readings and acknowledge the agency and autonomy of the play’s non-human animals, namely pigeons and foxes. Building on Una Chaudhuri’s ‘Theatre of Species’, this article demonstrates Human Animals’ deep engagement with animal alterity, subverting conventional socio-zoological classifications of ‘pest’ animals and popular preconceptions of pigeons and foxes in British culture. While Smith’s play uses the dystopian mode to dramatize a small-scale, localized eco-crisis, this article highlights how its focus on urban animal encounters and zoonotic disease holds broader implications for re-imagining inter-species relations and planetary health. An award-winning playwright, Isla Cowan is also a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her current research investigates ideas of ecological consciousness in contemporary Scottish theatre and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (SGSAH).

scholarly journals Maritime Memorates and Contemporary Legends of Storm Apparitions and Storm Making in Folklore Traditions of Ireland and Scotland*

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 154-162
Author(s):  
Maxim Fomin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Scottish Gaelic ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

The present article examines the folklore genre of maritime memorates of Irish and Scottish origin. It describes the maritime traditions of Gauls when various supernatural creatures and inanimate objects appeared from the sea, as well as the spells and magic tricks producing winds. The article studies contemporary legends which tell about omens and visions bewitching a storm. * This contribution is based upon the findings of the research project ‘Stories of the Sea: A Typological Study of Maritime Memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’ supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).

scholarly journals The Crisis, the Humanities and Medical History

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-287
Author(s):  
Bill Luckin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas

Non-controversially, the full version of this article argues that the crisis in British higher education will impoverish teaching and research in the arts and humanities; cut even more deeply into these areas in the post-1992 sector; and threaten the integrity of every small sub-discipline, including the history of medicine. It traces links between the Thatcherite reforms of the 1980s and the near-privatisation of universities proposed by the Browne Report and partly adopted by the coalition. The article ends by arguing that it would be mistaken to expect any government-driven return to the status quo ante. New ideas and solutions must come from within. As economic and cultural landscapes are transformed, higher education will eventually be rebuilt, and the arts and social sciences, including medical history, reshaped in wholly unexpected ways. This will only happen, however, if a more highly politicised academic community forges its own strategies for recovery.

Interview with Argha Manna

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-421
Author(s):  
Partha Bhattacharjee ◽  
Priyanka Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Histories

Argha Manna is a cancer-researcher-turned cartoonist. He worked as a research fellow at Bose Institute, India. After leaving academic research, he joined a media-house and started operating as an independent comics artist. He loves to tell stories from the history of science, social history and lab-based science through visual narratives. His blog, Drawing History of Science (https://drawinghistoryofscience.wordpress.com), has been featured by Nature India. Argha has been collaborating with various scientific institutes and science communicator groups from India and abroad. His collaborators are from National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS, Bangalore), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB, Hyderabad), Jadavpur University (Kolkata), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (University of Heidelberg, Germany) and a few others. Last year, he received STEMPeers Fellowship for creating comics on the history of vaccination and other aspects of medical histories, published in Club SciWri, a digital publication wing of STEMPeers Group. Currently, Argha is collaborating in a project, ‘Famine Tales from India and Britain’ as a graphic artist. This is a UK-based project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, led by Dr Ayesha Mukherjee, University of Exeter. In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi speak with Indian ‘alternative’ cartoonist Argha Manna to trace his journey from a cancer researcher to a cartoonist. Manna is a storyteller of history of science, in visuals. Recently, his works reflect social problems under the light of historical and scientific theories. Bhattacharjee and Tripathi trace Manna’s shift from a science-storyteller in a visual medium to a medical-cartoonist who is working on issues related to a global pandemic, its impact on life and literature vis-à-vis social intervention. They also focus on Manna’s latest comics on COVID-19.

scholarly journals The rationale for the DREaM: Developing Research Excellence and Methods Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (110) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel Hall ◽  
Stephanie Kenna ◽  
Charles Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Excellence ◽  
The Uk

The article describes the background to the development of the DREaM project, which is aimed at expanding the range of skills of UK-based researchers in the LIS field, and at developing a network of active researchers, both in academia and amongst LIS practitioners. The project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council involves two major conferences and a number of workshops throughout the UK starting in July 2011. Details of the events, and how the project will be evaluated, are provided.

scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-112
Author(s):  
Marlene Schäfers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Borders

Now running in its seventh year, Kurdish Studies has established itself as the leading venue for the publication of innovative, cutting-edge research on Kurdish history, politics, culture and society. According to Scopus scores, our journal is now positioned among the top publications within the History category of the Arts and Humanities, ranking 170 out of 1138 (84th percentile). In Cultural Studies, we stand at rank 193 out of 890 (78th percentile). This year’s second issue of Kurdish Studies brings to you yet another collection of thought-provoking pieces of original scholarship. Gerald Maclean provides us with a literary history of British literary accounts of Kurds and Kurdistan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Allan Hassaniyan investigates a similar geography, though within the context of contemporary fragmentation by national borders. Our third article shifts the focus from Iran to Iraq. Samme Dick examines the recent turn to Zoroastrianism amongst a growing number of Kurds living in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. 

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