NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY SPECIAL ISSUES AND THEMED SECTIONS CALL FOR PROPOSALS New Media & Society (NM&S) is soliciting proposals for forthcoming special issues or themed sections. A themed section on multimedia was published in 2000, another on cultural attitudes and information technology in 2001 and one on the internet in China will appear in the June 2002 issue. The journal editors invite proposals for forthcoming special issues and themed sections, starting with 2003. NM&S aims to publish one special issue or themed section per year, preferably in the June or September issue. Each themed section should consist of about three to four article-length contributions and an editorial by the guest editor. Any topic suitable for an article in NM&S is appropriate; however, preference will be given to topics not yet extensively addressed in the journal. Proposals should include a brief description of the topic (c. 300 words). When contributions to the special issue or themed section are to be selected from a conference or other scholarly meeting, please provide details of the event. If contributors to the proposed special issue or themed section have already been selected, please provide short biographical notes about the authors and abstracts of their contributions. Similar notes should also be provided for the person proposing the theme issue, indicating his or her expertise on the topic. For the theme selected for 2003, manuscripts should be available for double-blind peer review (following normal journal procedure) by October 2002. Manuscripts should then be revised and ready for production by mid-December 2002 for the June 2003 issue and mid-March 2003 for the September 2003 issue. The guest editor is responsible for soliciting and processing the reviews of articles, and for recommending manuscripts for publication. The final decision regarding publication of manuscripts, however, rests with the editors of NM&S. The guest editor will be expected to prepare an editorial introducing the themed section. Proposals for special issues and themed sections may be submitted by email to any of the four editors of NM&S (addresses below) and should be received no later than 30 March 2002. Proposed guest editors will be notified of the editors' decision by 30 April 2002. NM&S Editors Nicholas W. Jankowski N.Jankowski@maw.kun.nl Steve Jones sjones@uic.edu Leah Lievrouw llievrou@ucla.edu Roger Silverstone r.silverstone@lse.ac.uk