M/C Journal

Some ten and a half years ago, David Marshall - then lecturing in the English Department at the University of Queensland - had an idea. Academics around Australia, and around the world, were still coming to terms with this new-fangled thing, the Web, but publishing academic work was more often than not still linked to the slow processes of print publishing - so, David suggested, wouldn't it be great to set up a new, purely online journal that would combine rigorous academic peer review with the speed and reach that only Web-based publishing could provide. "Why not organise each issue around a one-word theme?", he asked.

We're getting ever closer to the tenth anniversary of M/C Journal's launch in July 1998. To celebrate, the University of Queensland's Peta Mitchell and M/C founder P. David Marshall will team up to edit our mid-year issue, 'publish'. What's the future for academic publishing? How do we assess quality? Contributions to the editors, please...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 28 Apr. 2008

M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'publish' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. In 2008, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth anniversary.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.

Call for Papers: 'publish'
Edited by P. David Marshall and Peta Mitchell

Today I posted the call for papers for the first issue of M/C Journal in 2008 - 'citizen', edited by Jason Wilson and Barry Saunders:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 Nov. 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'citizen' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. In 2008, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth anniversary.

I'm very pleased to announce the launch of issue 10.4 of M/C Journal. Interestingly, one of our articles has already been noted in the mainstream press (even though they got the name of the journal somewhat wrong...). Speaking as a migrant to Australia, I'm not sure I agree with Gerard Henderson's views about the proposed citizenship test - that is to say, I'm pretty sure I don't -, but good to see that M/C Journal has been able to make a contribution to this debate.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 27 Aug. 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
is proud to present issue four in volume ten of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

'home' - Edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray and Robyn Dowling

I'm very happy to announce the next issue of M/C Journal:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 July 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
is proud to present issue three in volume ten of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

'complex' - Edited by Jayde Cahir and Sarah James

Sydney's City Rail has recently launched an advertising campaign with the slogan of "untangling our complex rail network". City Rail position Sydney's rail network as a complex system. Describing something as 'complex' can be the answer to many questions. Rather than positioning 'complex' as the end result we would like to explore it as a starting point. What is complex? How is it complex? Why is it complex?

We're now calling for contributors for the next issue of M/C Journal:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 27 June 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'error' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

I'm happy to announce the launch of issue 10.2 of M/C Journal (not 10.1, as some of my announcement emails earlier today had it, unfortunately) - as some early readers have commented already, this is a particularly strong issue; congratulations to the editors and authors involved.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 7 May 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
is proud to present issue two in volume ten of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

It's that time of the bimester - we're calling for papers for issue 10.4 of M/C Journal:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 30 April 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'home' issue of

M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. In 2007, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

We've just published issue 9.6 of M/C Journal (December 2006)... This means that in 2007, M/C enters its tenth volume - wow. I don't think any one of us would have foreseen such longevity when we founded the journal. Anyway, here it is - and a great selection of interesting topics lined up for 2007 as well!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 4 January 2007

M/C - Media and Culture
is proud to present issue six in volume nine of

M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

Last week I had the great pleasure to publish the 'collaborate' issue of M/C Journal, which I edited with my great friend and colleague Donna Lee Brien from the University of New England. I'm very happy with how it's turned out, with a very interesting mix of general theory and practitioner reports from academia, arts, and the media, and a great feature article by Suw Charman from the Open Rights Group. Here's the announcement: