Abstract
This special issue results from the work of the cross-generational workshop on audience research that was co-organized by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” and the Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (YECREA)—at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL) Brussels, in April 2012. The event was presented in collaboration with the “Audience and Reception Studies” section of the ECREA.