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Joke OKE Hermes recently wrote that “Qualitative audience studies have arguably been the best possible expression of feminist engagement in media studies”(2014, 61). It was the recognition that feminist audience research has been constitutive of feminist media studies that led us to edit this special issue, which re-assesses the role of feminist audience study in contemporary media research. Each of us is acutely aware of the strength of the feminist audience tradition, which has been an important influence on the research each of us has produced. Yet in our view the new media environment differs in profound ways from the media environment that gave rise to what has become known as “feminist audience study.” The relationship between media and time, and the collapse of what scholars labeled the “separate spheres” between the genders, has shifted so radically that we can no longer think neatly about …