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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:04:23 +0000 From: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk Subject: New Media & Society
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New Media & Society - First Issue April 1999
New Media & Society is a new international journal being launched in April 1999 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change.
Breadth, Vision and Critical Analysis
New Media & Society will engage in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.
The journal will include contributions on:
the individual and the social, the cultural and the political dimensions of new media the global and local dimensions of the relationship between media and social change contemporary as well as historical developments the implications and impacts of, as well as the determinants and obstacles to, media change the relationship between theory, policy and practice
Multidisciplinary Perspective
New Media & Society will publish from both the social sciences and the humanities. It will include contributions from communication, media and cultural studies, as well as from sociology, geography, anthropology, economics and from the political and information sciences.
Topics to be Covered Include:
Digitalization and convergence Interactivity and virtuality Consumption and citizenship Innovation, regulation and control The cultures of the Internet Patterns and inequalities of use Community and identity in electronic space Time and space in global culture and everyday life The politics of cyberspace
Reviews
New Media & Society will include a section in which books and other significant contributions to the field will be reviewed. This will include both essay length and shorter contributions, ensuring that you are kept abreast of the latest literature.
Two-Year Charter Subscription
Take out a 2-Year Charter Subscription and you will receive the first 7 issues commencing with Volume 1, Number 1, April 1999.
You will save over 25% You will be entitled to deduct 10% from all future invoices for the journal as long as your subscription is maintained continuously and placed direct with SAGE Publications Your subscription will be covered by a full money-back guarantee - if you are not completely satisfied with your first issue, please keep it with our compliments and we will refund your subscription.
NB One-Year Introductory Subscriptions (3 issues) are also available. Charter Subscriptions and Introductory Subscriptions are not available to institutions.
Charter Subscription Rate =A345/US$72 (Two Years - 7 issues)
Introductory Individual Rate =A321/US$34 (One Year - 3 issues)
Institutional Rate =A396/US$154 (One Year - 3 issues) =A3224/US$358 (Two Years - 7 issues)
Three times a year: April, August, December Published quarterly from 2000. ISSN 1461-4448
Call for Papers
Contributions are invited for early issues of New Media & Society. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted, typed in double-spacing on one side of the paper only. The length should not normally exceed 7000 words. Each submission will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees.
The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with the author's name and date in the text and a full bibliography in alphabetical order at the end of the article.
Your contributions should be sent to either:
Nicholas Jankowski, Dept of Communication, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands Tel: +31 24 3612372 / Fax: +31 24 3613073 Email: n.jankowski@maw.kun.nl
Or
Steven Jones, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1040 W Harrison Street, M/C 132, Chicago, IL 60607-7131, USA Tel: +1 312 996 3193 / Fax: +1 312 413 2125 Email: sjones@uic.edu
Editors
Nicholas Jankowski, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Steven Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Rohan Samarajiva, Telecom Regulatory Commission, Sri Lanka/ Ohio State University, USA Roger Silverstone, University of Sussex, UK
Reviews Editor
Caroline Bassett, University of Sussex, UK
Contributing Editors
Nancy Baym, Wayne State University, USA Lee Becker, University of Georgia, USA Jean-Claude Burgelman, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Richard Collins, London School of Economics, UK Valerie Frissen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ulrich Langer, Free University of Berlin, Germany Leah Lievrouw, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK Ursula Maier-Rabler, University of Salzburg, Austria Robin Mansell, University of Sussex, UK Paschal Preston, Dublin City University, Eire Terje Rasmussen, University of Oslo, Norway Ronald Rice, Rutgers University, USA Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada Peter B White, La Trobe University, Australia Diane Witmer, California State University, Fullerton, USA
International Advisory Board
Phil Agre, University of California at San Diego, USA Ang Peng Hwa, Nanyanag Technological University, Singapore Ann Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Sandra Braman, University of South Africa, South Africa Andrew Calabrese, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Jan van Cuilenburg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Maureen Ebben, St Mary's College of Maryland, USA Steven Emmott, NCR, The Knowledge Lab, UK Leopodina Fortunati, University of Trieste, Italy Simon Frith, University of Strathclyde, UK Leen d'Haenens, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Rahmah Hashim, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Andrew Jakubowicz, University of Technology, Australia William Melody, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Carmen Gomez Mont, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico John Pavlik, Columbia University, USA Lana Rakow, University of North Dakota, USA Usha Reddy, Osmania University, India Kevin Robbins, University of Wales, UK Paul Rutten, Erasmus University, The Netherlands Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California at San Diego, USA Marsha Siefert, Central European University, Hungary Supriya Singh, CIRCIT, Australia Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Gaetan Tremblay, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada Joseph Turow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
For further details contact Jane Makoff at SAGE Publications, Email: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk.
SAGE Publications, 6 Bonhill Street London, EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications, PO Box 5096, Thousand Oaks, CA91359, USA Tel: +44 (0)171 374 0645 Fax: +44 (0)171 374 8741
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