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Date: 24-Sep-2010
From: Cornelia Gerhardt < c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de >
Subject: Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their audiences/users
 

	
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:24:38
From: Cornelia Gerhardt [c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their audiences/users

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Full Title: Participation Framework Revisited: (new) Media and their 
audiences/users 

Date: 03-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Cornelia Gerhardt
Meeting Email: c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 04-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

Participation framework revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users

A dyadic model of communication with a speaker and a hearer has long 
been replaced by such concepts as production format and participation 
framework with different roles which individuals may display in relation to a 
given utterance. (Goffman 1981, Levinson 1988) Going beyond 
interpersonal dyadic face-to-face talk-in-interaction, the application of these 
notions, however, remains unsatisfactory. So, for instance, regarding classic 
mass media, there are still ongoing discussions about the status of the 
television audience as overhearers. Also, in studies on CMC (computer-
mediated communication) often a rather superficial notion of reader-authors 
or wreaders is posited, albeit the genuine interactivity of the web 2.0 seems 
to provide fruitful ground for an analysis in these terms. 

Because of these ongoing debates and unexplored fields, we find it timely to 
revisit the notion of participation framework and describe how different 
reception roles are inscribed in different media or forms of communication, 
or, in other words, how different production formats position their users or 
audiences. Since later developments do not only differ from their foregoers, 
but must also be seen in continuity with them, we decided not to limit our 
scope to recent formats. Instead, the talks will range from accounts of 
classic mass media like the television to web 2.0 trends. Furthermore, as a 
common underlying question of all talks, the panel will also revisit the 
theoretical status of Goffman's notions. In how far is the dichotomy with 
production formats on the one hand and reception frameworks on the other 
challenged in mediated contexts? Also, how do the notions of addressivity 
and ratification emerge in the light of mediated forms of communication?

In order to address these theoretical issues, however, some of the following 
questions will have to be answered empirically through minute descriptions 
of different media settings or forms of communication. Hence, research 
questions that will be addressed include: How does a given technological, 
multimodal media environment constrain or fuel certain kinds of 
participation? How can we account for the production/reception roles in 
classic mass media as well as all kinds of internet-based forms of 
communication, such as weblogs, social networks sites, discussion fora, 
etc.? How are split audiences aligned to? How do audiences/users exploit 
the different potentials of bi- and unidirectionality? Can these technological 
environments be conceived as authors in this framework? Also, which 
linguistic means are used for these different purposes? 

Call For Papers

We welcome submissions to the our panel on 'Participation framework 
revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users' at the next IPrA 
conference in Manchester. If you are interested, please send a short note to 
c.gerhardt at mx.uni-saarland.de asap. Abstracts for internal reviewing will 
be due Oct. 4th.

Thank you,
Cornelia Gerhardt
Maximiliane Frobenius
Volker Eisenlauer





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