Hi all,

I am Ranjana, an incoming doctoral student, at the LSE, entering in October 2008. Many thanks to David Brake for introducing me to this group weblog! While my *very* broad interests are around media audiences/users, I am significantly interested in de-Westernizing audience research, political legacies of the field in the age of the internet, and very centrally in bringing literary theories and hermeneutics in conversation with current research around writers and readers in cyber space. Much influenced by Umberto Eco, Wolfgang iser, Hans Robert Jauss, I am interested in working out a comprehensive qualitative empirical framework which shall let me attempt socio-culturally inflected re-readings of text-reader theories in the context of burgeoning work around networkers and ‘participants’. Significant influences apart from the literary theorists, have been Elihu Katz (I am fascinated by the thoughts of using ‘viewers work’ in contemporary contexts) Roger Silverstone, Sonia Livingstone, Ien Ang (in some senses), Arjun Appadurai  amongst others. I am happy to discuss my ideas with anyone who works with reception studies, or is interested in empirical projects that try to carry the audience into the world of ‘users’!

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