tripleC 6 (2): Special issue on "ICTs and society: PhD Students' Transdisciplinary Research Projects" published http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current This special issue, edited by Christian Fuchs, documents selected papers that were presented at the doctoral students conference "ICTs and society" that took place at the University of Salzburg on June 20-21, 2008 (see http://www.icts.sbg.ac.at/content.php?m_id=1012&id=1012&newsdetail=555&ch_id...) tripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-operation) is an open access journal that focuses on transdisciplinary research in information science and communication studies. Contents tripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-operation) -- Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 6 (2): http://triplec.at Christian Fuchs Introduction to the special issue on "ICTs and Society: PhD Students' Transdisciplinary Research Projects" i-viii http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/80/74 Muhammad M. Abdul-Mageed: Online News Sites and Journalism 2.0: Reader Comments on Al Jazeera Arabic 59-76 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/78 Robert M. Bichler: The dawn of the information age in least developed countries (LDCs): lessons learned from four case studies 77-87 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/79 Randall B. Kemp Public participatory GIS in community-based disaster risk reduction 88-104 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/81 Alice Mattoni ICTs in national and transnational mobilizations 105-124 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/82 Pedro Pereira Neto Internet-driven changes in environmental NGO action 125-133 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/83 Alberto Pepe Socio-epistemic analysis of scientific knowledge production in little science research 134-145 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/84 Andraž Petrovc(ic( Reconfiguring socialities: The personal networks of ICT users and Social Cohesion 146-166 http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/85 -- --------------- Christian Fuchs Associate Professor eTheory Research Group ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at/fuchs/ Blog: http://christianfuchs.wordpress.com Co-Editor of tripleC - open access online journal on cognition, communication and cooperation for a global sustainable information society http://triple-c.at New Book: Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. 408 Pages. http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html