M/C Journal 'transmit' Issue Launched

I published the 'transmit' issue of M/C Journal last week, edited by my colleagues Henk Huijser and Brooke Collins-Gearing. Some very good articles there, and the issue will be a tough act to follow (with Donna Lee Brien, I'm currently editing the next issue 'collaborate').

When I say 'I published', incidentally, I don't mean this in any abstract sense - right now it's quite literally me who generates the issue pages from the articles and other materials edited by the issue editors, and uploads them to the server. We do have a rudimentary system in place for publishing the journal, but (built on the Textpattern engine) it remains very clunky and kludgy so far. Happily, that might soon change: QUT Communication Design student Gordon Grace is currently exploring options for moving M/C Journal to a more manageable online journal editing and publishing system. Personally, I can't wait... (Gordon also designed the cover for Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production.)

Anyway - here's the announcement for the new M/C Journal issue. With 'transmit', we begin our ninth volume - it's hard to believe how far we've come.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 14 March 2006

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

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

'transmit' - Edited by Henk Huijser & Brooke Collins-Gearing

In an increasingly globalised and networked world, to transmit is to exist. In a sense this has always been the case as transmitting is at the heart of human communication and works on many different levels, including information, knowledge, culture, language, and media. What has changed then is not so much the action of transmitting itself, but rather the speed of transmission, facilitated by increasingly sophisticated transmission tools and widening access to those tools. This in turn has major implications for the volume of transmissions and the ability or inability to process them. In this context of content overload and fierce competition for attention, to transmit effectively becomes vital, whether on a professional, personal,
community or global level.

  Feature Article
"SMS Riot: Transmitting Race on a Sydney Beach, December 2005"
  - Gerard Goggin

Gerard Goggin discusses one of the most important ‘new’ tools of transmission, the mobile phone, and specifically the practice of ‘texting’. In relation to the Cronulla race riots, he provides some much needed
reflection on what he calls a ‘mobile panic’ which followed the events at Cronulla, enthusiastically fanned by the mainstream media. Underlying this was of course a traditional technological determinist sense that the mobile phone itself had caused the riots. Goggin compares this to his current research into the role of mobile phones in the overthrow of the Estrada precidency in the Philippines, or what he calls a ‘coup d’text’.

  Articles
"Senders, Receivers and Deceivers: How Liar Codes Put Noise Back on the Diagram of Transmission"
  - Tony Sampson

"Transmitting the Body in Online Interaction"
  - Danny Beusch

"Scenes of Transmission: Youth Culture, MP3 File Sharing, and Transferable Strategies of Cultural Practice"
  - Dale A. Bradley

"Grid: On Being-as-Transmission and Normativity"
  - Robert Payne

"creativity.com: Aladdin’s Cave or Pandora’s Box?"
  - Ben Isakhan, Jason Nelson and Patrick West

"Mapping the Narrative in a Digital Album Cover"
  - Patti Tsarouhis

"Transmitting Genocide: Genocide and Art"
  - Martine Hawkes

"Reconstructing the Internet: How Social Justice Activists Contest Technical Design in Cyberspace"
  - Kate Milberry

"The Transmission of Political Critique after 9/11: 'A New Form of Desperation'?"
 - Megan Boler

 

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006:

 

'collaborate': article deadline 6 March 2006, release date 3 May 2006
'street': article deadline 1 May 2006, release date 28 June 2006
'free': article deadline 26 June 2006, release date 23 August 2006
'filth': article deadline 21 August 2006, release date 18 October 2006
'jam': article deadline 16 October 2006, release date 13 December 2006

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M/C Journal 9.1 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available.

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Visit all three M/C publications at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.

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All contributors are available for media contacts: mc@media-culture.org.au.

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