The journal Information, Communication & Society will be giving its first webcast on Monday 29th March with Stephen Coleman, Visiting Professor in e-Democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute, discussing his article 'Connecting Parliament to the Public via the Internet: Two Case Studies of Online Consultations' This will be followed by a response from Dr Damian Tambini, Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University. Stephen Coleman will take part in a discussion with the Information, Communication & Society Journal Editor, Brian Loader and an invited audience at the Oxford Internet Institute, which will be broadcast on the internet via - www.infosoc.co.uk <http://www.infosoc.co.uk> The presentation will start at 17:00 GMT. Viewers having questions for Stephen may forward them to webcast@oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:webcast@oii.ox.ac.uk> (please also include your name and contact information) and Stephen will answer as many of them as possible during the webcast Stephen Coleman's article is due to be published in Information, Communication & Society 7:1, a Taylor & Francis journal, and the article will be available to download prior to the webcast at www.infosoc.co.uk <http://www.infosoc.co.uk> TIMES AND DATES Monday 29th March 2004 1700 - 1800 [GMT] 1800 - 1900 [Central European Time] 1100 - 1200 [US Eastern Standard Time] 0800 - 0900 [US Western Standard Time] 2130 - 2230 [Indian Standard Time] 0400 - 0500 [New Zealand Time - 30 March] Brian D. Loader, Editor, Information, Communication & Society, CIRA, University of Teesside, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley TS1 3BA, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1642 342348 Fax: +44 (0) 1642 342711 b.d.loader@tees.ac.uk www.infosoc.co.uk