New Internet journal ready to launch

University of Queensland postgraduates and staff are behind a new Internet journal to be launched at The Hub Internet Cafe, 125 Margaret St, Brisbane on Thursday July 23 at 5.30 pm.

M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture - is an initiative of the Media and Cultural Studies Centre, a research unit in the University's English Department.

Centre director and M/C supervising editor Dr David Marshall said the new journal grew from a postgraduate Arts faculty subject entitled New Media Culture on the history of cultural studies.

It also resulted from the enthusiasm of students and staff who were genuinely interested in embarking upon critical analyses of media and culture.

"M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic," Dr Marshall said.

Dr Marshall said each M/C issue would be organised around a theme. The first issue's theme was appropriate for a birthing process and the move from the apparent simplicity of beginnings to the complexity of sustaining life.

"We're looking at the concept of ?New', and we're approaching it from a variety of angles and avenues. Most of the essays are short interventions," he said.

Contributors to the first edition include English honours students Axel Bruns, Nick Caldwell, Joseph Crawfoot, Paul McCormack, Felicity Meakins and Adam Dodd.

The free magazine is now on the Web at: http: //www.uq.edu.au/mc/

Media: For further information, contact Dr Marshall telephone (07) 3365 2615.