In 1998, M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture was devised by David Marshall as an online publishing project for a new media culture honours course at the University of Queensland. The journal was intended as an open-access, scholarly intervention in and forum for debates surrounding media and culture with a strong desire to cross between the academic and the popular. This year, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth anniversary, and in this special issue we ask: what is the face of publishing today?

We invite submissions that address contemporary cultural/political aspects of publishing, such as recent shifts in print culture, online/open-access publishing, print-on-demand and self-publication, approaches to copyright and intellectual property (e.g., creative commons), the impact of research quality assessments on academic publishing, cross-platform publishing, independent publishing, and so forth. In this era of social networking and continuous peer-review, how has the form of academic publishing shifted and, in a more normative sense, how should it shift? What possible futures can be imagined in publishing and publication and what are the new desires and demands to be "published"? All of these various issues and approaches to the idea of publish will be entertained as we mark M/C Journal's own online publishing milestone.
Details

* Article deadline: 27 June 2008
* Release date: 27 August 2008
* Editors: David Marshall and Peta Mitchell

Send any enquiries, and complete articles of 3000 words, to publish@journal.media-culture.org.au

http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/upcoming.php#publish

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 26 May 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 .
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
.

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

In 1998, M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture was devised by David Marshall
as an online publishing project for a new media culture honours course at
the University of Queensland. The journal was intended as an open-access,
scholarly intervention in and forum for debates surrounding media and
culture with a strong desire to cross between the academic and the popular.
This year, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth anniversary, and in this
special issue we ask: what is the face of publishing today?

We invite submissions that address contemporary cultural/political aspects
of publishing, such as recent shifts in print culture, online/open-access
publishing, print-on-demand and self-publication, approaches to copyright
and intellectual property (e.g., creative commons), the impact of research
quality assessments on academic publishing, cross-platform publishing,
independent publishing, and so forth. In this era of social networking and
continuous peer-review, how has the form of academic publishing shifted
and, in a more normative sense, how should it shift? What possible futures
can be imagined in publishing and publication and what are the new desires
and demands to be "published"? All of these various issues and approaches
to the idea of publish will be entertained as we mark M/C Journal's own
online publishing milestone.

Submit papers of 3,000 words in length to the editors at
publish@journal.media-culture.org.au.

Article deadline: 27 June 2008
Issue release date: 27 Aug. 2008

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998
as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting
of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C
Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for
comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind
peer-reviewed.

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2008 and 2009:

'country': article deadline 22 August 2008, release date 22 October 2008
'recover': article deadline 10 October 2008, release date 10 December 2008
'still': article deadline 16 January 2009, release date 11 March 2009
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M/C - Media and Culture is located at http://www.media-culture.org.au
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M/C Journal is online at http://journal.media-culture.org.au
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there
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