Spotlight:Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group Mel Stanfill (bio) Ross Garner Since the early 1980s, concept of resistance, in broadest sense, has been integral to debates within audience fan studies. That was when scholars took up Stuart Hall's theoretical model encoding decoding mediated communication argued for agency situated members processes reading media texts.1 then, studie...

We examine the existence and strength of organizational ties between parties interest groups by innovating on classic resource exchange theory. First, we propose that nature groups’ policy orientation their general capacity primarily explain presence ties, is, are less likely to materialize when lack ideological goals have limited capacity. Second, size types resources offer from both sides wha...

The Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/ stevens/meeting03/) has now been running for 6 consecutive years, as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. It met in Brisbane, Australia, this summer, the first time it was held outside North America or Europe. The bio-ontologies meeting is 1 day long and normally has around 100 attendees. This year there w...