The November issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies has just been launched: http://www.participations.org/Volume%208/Issue%202/contents.htm As well as a range of general papers and a review section, it is a bumper issue with three special sections. These address: Comedy Audiences; Online Audiences and papers from the International Film Audiences Conference held in Edinburgh, 2011. Sue Turnbull Professor, Communication and Media Studies School of Social Science, Media and Communication Faculty of Arts University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia +61 2 4239 2392 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Editor: Media International Australia <http://www.uq.au/mia/> Co-editor: Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies <http://www.participations.org/> ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org