Editors’ Note

Lisa Brawley
Stuart Moulthrop
Co-editors

 

With this first issue of volume nine, we introduce a new section of Postmodern Culture expressly addressed to the relay between new media technologies and cultural practice. We’ve called this section “Traffic.” To be sure, the intersection of technology, media, and cultural theory remains a central concern of the journal as a whole, but this section is reserved for work that does not conform to the conventional structure of a critical essay. Something like field notes in global information culture, Traffic will make use of the multimedia capacities of the journal to comment on technoculture in its own idiom. We invite interviews, illustrations, brief commentary, collaborative web projects, interactive syllabi, animation, and video scripts. We are especially interested in work that queries the force of new media technologies on the practices of scholarship and teaching.

 

Also with this issue we announce the return of the PMC prize. Each June, the editorial board of Postmodern Culture will choose an outstanding critical and/or creative work published in the journal during the previous volume year. The author of this work will receive $500 and special billing on our main page.