This discussion on disciplinarity has been very interesting so far, and I just know its going to feed into a small presentation I have to give here at my university tomorrow (entitled "tips on publishing" - what do *I* know about that - but if they dont mind hearing me, of course I'll talk;-)) . So thanks all (I'll make sure to acknowledge "the list"). The problem of inter/cross/trans disciplinarity - when this issue becomes a battlefield - in the case of promotion, tenure, getting a phd etc in the US (so I am being very US centric and self-centric here) is accentuated in relation to publishing.... where you publish etc - and some publications in some disciplines dont allow the saying and asking of certain types of questions and critiques (again I'm simplifying and being extremely polite...) - which is why of course those of us who do more than token feminist and cultural studies type work (however much I may mumble and grumble about some kinds of appropriation of these - these are still some of the only academic spaces that even allow certain kinds of conversations) sometimes have an interesting time in relation definitions of disciplinarity. Now with "Internet studies" being "interdisciplinary" however - I find less resistance (again depending on the kind of *questions* one asks in relation to the Internet...this resistance is less or more) - perhaps because the Internet "sells" (in relation to the corporate world, I mean) better than critiques coming from various counter-mainstream locations? So when we talk about ethics of inter/trans/cross etc disciplinarity in relation to Internet studies - what are we selling? r Radhika Gajjala _______________________ http://www.cyberdiva.org