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From: "Axel Bruns" <mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:19:52 +1000 The Media and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Queensland <http://www.uq.edu.au/mcsc/> and M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/> are proud to invite you to join the Media-Culture List <http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/media-culture> The Media-Culture List is finally here. If you're interested in participating in debates that are at the nexus of various media forms and their implications for contemporary culture, we would welcome your presence. The Media-Culture List has emerged from the Media and Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Queensland and the affiliated active sites of the widely acclaimed online journal M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture and its companion publication M/C Reviews. Our overall strategy is to move ideas outward so that they are not closetted in the academic specialisations that often consume and subsume those same ideas. We're interested in critical thinking and ruminations on a variety of topics that comfortably move between popular culture and critical thinking about those same phenomena. Enlist, lurk and participate. And let the net of ideas expand into the most interesting patterns generated by the Media-Culture List. We're happy to see ideas form in the process of contribution and crystallise in the list's exchange. To begin the discussion, I would like to put the first idea out for discussion: How can we sensibly talk about the cultural phenomena of fads? Here, I am thinking of the massive proliferation of paraphernalia commodities connected to Pokemons. But similar washes of fads, crazes, frenzies are a regular part of contemporary popular culture. They usually have a distinct shelf-life; they are often connected and targetted at a particular age group and gender. And even the term fad is pejorative. Is it useful to use the social psychological language to describe these events? Is it useful to think of the pleasure relationship that is contained in a massive activity? Can we rethink the commodity form and its elasticity to contain and keep producing these forms of pleasure? P. David Marshall Director, Media and Cultural Studies Centre Supervising Editor, M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture To participate in this and other discussions, link up with media and culture enthusiasts and critics around the world, and get the latest news about cultural and media events off- and online, join the Media-Culture List by going to <http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/media-culture> and following the instructions on screen. Subscription is simple and free, and you'll be able to unsubscribe at any time. About the Media and Cultural Studies Centre: The University of Queensland's Media and Cultural Studies Centre is the nerve centre of a number of activities, from research to teaching, from publishing and production to conferences and colloquia. Cultural Studies has long focussed on the media as an object of study for understanding contemporary culture. The Media and Cultural Studies Centre is involved specifically at that intersection, where media forms are critically analysed through the interdisciplinary approaches derived from cultural studies. About M/C: M/C is an award-winning journal that crosses over between the popular and the academic. It is attempting to engage with the 'popular', and integrate 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. Axel Bruns -- M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au The University of Queensland http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/ ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress