| Systematik: | ID-Archiv EATC id-e-7342 id-e-868 id-e-714 |
| | Status: | Changed | | Checked: | 03-03-02 05:02:25 PM |
| | Adresse: | mc@media-culture.org.au |
| | Selbstdarstellung: | | About M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture M/C crosses over between the popular and the academic, by engaging with the 'popular' and integrating the work of 'scholarship' in media and cultural studies into our critical work. We take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is centred around a particular theme, and they're all still available online. What's Cooking at M/C M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture The Internet is a fascinating stew. Its contents come in many different flavours; what's more, individual ingredients may even have any number of alternative flavours at the same time -- the taste is in the eating. There are the familiar tastes of popular culture alongside the exotic spices of underground subcultures; there is the fast food of mass entertainment alongside the haute cuisine of scientific research and the nouvelle cuisine of artistic endeavour. And we patrons of the Internet food fair wander from stall to stall, pick and choose from this global smorgasbord, nibble around the edges here, dig in there -- creating new culinary combinations of culture, hitherto undreamt of, from the fresh or not-so-fresh catches landed in the World Wide Web. Bit 1 At M/C, we aim to offer our own condiments to this global stew. M/C is a journal of media and culture, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, and published electronically on the Web, but like the Net it is neither fully academic writing nor entirely popular culture; similarly, we are neither exclusively covering Internet-related topics nor ignoring them altogether. Put positively, we are concerned with the goings-on in today's media and culture environments, whatever form they take, and add our own observations to the cauldron of opinions that is the Net. Bit 2 From our own painful experiences, we are well aware that a major problem with scholarly work on (and about) the Internet is the usage and citation of online sources. The Net has no pagination; this makes longer pieces awkward to read and individual quotes and references difficult to locate. M/C pieces are therefore divided up into snack-sized 'bites' that will load quickly and generally contain no more than a screenful of text. ... |
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