Sorry for crossposting: -- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Call for papers -- ** ONE WEEK LEFT FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS ** TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES Identity | Creativity | Everyday Life 6–7 September 2007, University of Westminster http://www.transformingaudiences.org.uk in association with the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). 'Audience' is now widely recognised as a concept in crisis. The traditional notion of families gathered around the television set has crumbled, to be replaced by much more complex models of dispersed and fragmented audiences, 'users', or 'participants', who may take the role of producer as well as audience, and who use traditional and new technologies in a mix of communication, consumption and creativity. At the same time, audiences survive. Today's diverse range of media forms continue to have audiences, and media theorists continue to produce important work about the connections between media and identities, everyday life, and responses to current and global affairs. Plenary speakers will include Sonia Livingstone and Joke Hermes. Confirmed speakers include Martin Barker, Göran Bolin, John Corner, Knut Lundby, Peter Lunt, and Maire Messenger Davies. Conference organisers: Caroline Dover, David Gauntlett, Annette Hill, and Roza Tsagarousianou (CAMRI, University of Westminster), with Geoffroy Patriarche, Chair, ECREA Audience and Reception Studies section, and Lynn Schofield Clark, Chair, ICA Popular Communication Division. CALL FOR PAPERS See full details at www.transformingaudiences.org.uk Deadline for proposals: 20 April 2007 -- Jeremy Depauw The Power of Knoweldge Sharing and Skills Synegism Journal de recherche: http://dev.ulb.ac.be/~jdepauw/dotclear/index.php