M/C Journal

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.)

I sent out this call for papers for the M/C Journal 'street' issue a few days ago:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 7 March 2003

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

Ugh. Having been at work since 7.30 a.m. to make some solid progress on the edgeX ("Mapping the Missing Grassroots") project and develop up some tech specs for the site we'll build for it, I got home at 6.30 p.m. only to move right on to producing the next issue of M/C Journal, which I'm happy to say is online as of now (that is, 1 a.m.) - and there'll be a formal announcement shortly. From what I've seen of the articles during the production process, editors Henk Huijser and Brooke Collins-Gearing have done excellent work, and I look forward to reading some of the articles in more detail.

The other day I published the latest issue of M/C Journal: 'affect'. This was edited by Mel Gregg - well done Mel! Today I sent out the issue announcement:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 21 December 2005

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

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

'affect' - Edited by Melissa Gregg

We've now finalised the M/C Journal issue line-up for 2006, and posted the first call for papers for the 'transmit' issue. I'll be editing 'collaborate' with my friend and colleague Donna Lee Brien at the University of New England in Armidale early in 2006 as well, and I think we've got a number of other interesting issue topics and editors planned for the rest of the year as well. Start writing your articles!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9 November 2005

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

Forgot to mention this earlier - I published the 'review' issue of M/C Journal the other week:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 30 October 2005

M/C - Media and Culture
is proud to present issue five in volume eight of

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

'review' - Edited by Emma Nelms, Kate Cuthbert, and Tim Milfull

I published the latest issue of M/C Journal the other day - congratulations to the issue editors, Josh Green and Adam Swift:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 25 August 2005

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

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

'scan' - Edited by Joshua Green & Adam Swift

Today I sent out the announcement for the latest issue of M/C Journal, edited by Rachel Cobcroft and Susanna Leisten:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 8 July 2005

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

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

          'copy' - Edited by Rachel Cobcroft and Susanna Leisten

I produced the latest issue of M/C Journal last night, which was edited by my colleagues Glen Thomas and Jaz Choi:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 10 June 2005

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

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

                'print' - Edited by Glen Thomas & Jaz Choi

Ugh - it's been a week full of fiddly stuff so far: plenty of work and no end to it. At least I've been able to post the call for papers for the next issue of M/C Journal:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 May 2005

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

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