During the AoIR 2006 conference, we launched the latest addition to M/C - Media and Culture's stable of publications: M/C Dialogue, edited by my colleague Jinna Tay. M/C Dialogue focussed on publishing interviews with scholars, artists, and other public intellectuals, and I'm very excited about it - judging by the initial response there's a great deal of interest in the site already, and it seems to fill a real gap in the online publishing environment. Of course we're also very keen to encourage more interviews to be submitted (an interview with AoIR 2006 keynote speaker Guo Liang by Randy Kluver should be up soon), and I'm particularly hoping that anybody going to major conferences will think about interviewing keynote speakers and other key scholars there (audio and video interviews are particularly encouraged). We are hoping, too, that the peer review process (if for obvious reasons not blind peer review) which we follow for the site will enable interviews to be counted as 'proper' academic publications for once...
