The following conference is not solely on the Internet, but there is a strand on social movements and the Internet, which some subscribers might be interested in? The Social and Cultural Movements Group, Edge Hill College, UK 2nd International Conference: Imaging Social Movements Thursday 1st July to Saturday 3rd July 2004 Call for Papers Following the success of its 2002 conference: Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians, the Social Movements Group is organising a 2nd International Conference for Summer 2004, exploring the theme of the construction of images, representations and articulations of social movements. The effectiveness of social movements has always relied not only upon the political activity and its theoretical conception, but also upon its cultural representation and aesthetics. The changing media, cultural and technological landscape has transformed the means and media by which social movements can create and contest their 'image', and how others create and contest images of them. This conference aims to bring together social movement researchers across the social sciences and humanities in considering questions of conception, process and outcomes in the imaging social movements - past, present and future. Proposed indicative strands include: Social Movements and the Internet Social Movements and Popular Film The Mechanics of Representation Narratives/Literatures and Social Movements Media construction of Opposition The Documentary Tradition Performance Social Movements and Popular TV We welcome traditional papers, posters and less traditional audio-visual presentations. Send proposals with abstract of 150-200 words by 31st January 2004 to Roger Spalding/Lee Salter Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP. UK Email: salterl@edgehill.ac.uk Web site: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/ -- Lee Salter School of Law, Governance and International Relations London Metropolitan University, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2AD