Panel #15 – What’s in an Audience? Audience Labor and Television

What is Television: Panel #15 – What’s in an Audience? Audience Labor and Television

Moderator: Horace Newcomb, University of Georgia, USA

• Vanessa Mendes Moreira De Sa, University of Western Sydney , Australia – The Precarious, Voluntary, But Prestigious Work of Amateur Subtitlers for Downloaded TV Shows in Brazil
• Michele Rosenthal and Rivka Ribak, University of Haifa, Israel – Unplugged:  Media Ambivalence and Avoidance in Everyday Life
• Jonas De Meulenaere, Wendy Van den Broeck, Bram Lievens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium – From Era of Plenty to Era of Overflow: “What Shall I Watch?”
• Louisa Stein, Middlebury College, USA – Transmedia TV Aesthetics: Do it Yourself Meets Buy it Yourself
• Wendy Van den Broeck and Jo Pierson, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium – Understanding Television Practices in a Digital Home Ecology

What is Television? A Conference to Explore the Past, Present, and Future of Television. March 1- 3, Portland, OR. Organized by Dr. Janet Wasko and the School of Journalism and Communication. For more about the conference, visit the website.