The Irish Audience Studies Network is a multidisciplinary research group that aims to bring together scholars working on historical and contemporary audience research across a range of media including, cinema, television, radio and online content. The network is for anyone who is interested in the dynamics of media exhibition, distribution and consumption in Ireland from the beginning of the twentieth century up to current day. Encompassing diverse theoretical and methodological approaches (including, but not limited to surveys, interviews, demographic analysis, archival research, oral history, statistical analysis, GIS mapping and analysis of online audiences as producers of new media), the network will address questions related to national, gender, sexual, ethnic, political, and class identities of Irish audiences. The network's inaugural symposium takes place in the Arts & Humanities Institute on Wednesday 5 December 2018. This event will provide all who are interested in joining the network with the opportunity to give a brief presentation about their work in an informal setting, while also meeting colleagues engaged in different areas of audience studies research. The programme will include a screening of the documentary ‘Movie Going Memories’, which was produced as part of the Cork Movie Memories project. Led by Dr Gwenda Young and Dan O’Connell (UCC), Cork Movie Memories is a Creative Ireland/ UCC funded project that records the cinema-going memories of people living in small towns, villages and rural areas of Cork County from the 1940s to the present.