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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Monday, September 27, 2004  

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

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. As such, it is fully blind peer-reviewed, but also open to submissions and responses from anyone on the Internet. They 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 organised around a one word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or two editors with a particular interest in that theme. The editors change for each issue. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles. A major problem with Internet publications is that of usage and citation of online sources. Without pagination, long articles are awkward to read and individual quotes and references difficult to locate. In terms of length, M/C articles are deliberately shorter than articles in printed academic journals, functioning as interventions into media and culture. In terms of reference, individual paragraphs are numbered as "bits", so that instead of guesses like "about three screens from the end" or a mere "no pagination given", when you cite M/C articles you can refer directly to the bit you're interested in. Additionally, at the end of each piece they provide a reference citation of the article line in MLA and APA styles, which you can copy and paste into your own list of references. There are still no universally accepted ways of citing Internet sources, but they hope this will help. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

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