The HoMER Network is an international network of researchers engaged in examining the phenomena of cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from international and multidisciplinary perspectives. It aims to promote understanding of these phenomena through several means, including:

• The collection, scholarly vetting, and sharing of new data on film going, exhibition, and reception;
• The creation of a portal website that brings these new datasets together and, ideally, makes them cross-searchable;
• The dissemination of new models of collaborative research in the humanities that engage academic staff and graduate and undergraduate students in long-term projects, and the development of new ways to incorporate such research into cinema studies and cultural history classrooms;
• Support for a variety of means of publishing research findings, with particular focus on the electronic publication of working papers, works in progress, and unconventionally formatted works not readily publishable on paper.