Announcing a Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol 25. No 2 Communication technology and social life: Jonathan Paul Marshall and Tanya Notley "Communication technology and social life: Transformation and continuity, order and disorder", pp.127-37. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12084 Alexandra Crosby and Tanya Notley "Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua", pp138-54. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12085 Heather A. Horst and Erin B. Taylor "The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic", pp 155-170. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12086 Inge Kral "Shifting perceptions, shifting identities: Communication technologies and the altered social, cultural and linguistic ecology in a remote indigenous context", 171-189. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12087 Jonathan Paul Marshall "The social (dis)organisation of software: Failure and disorder in information society", pp190-206. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12088 Makiko Nishitani "Kinship, gender, and communication technologies: Family dramas in the Tongan diaspora", pp 207-222. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12089 Borut Telban and Daniela Vávrová "Ringing the living and the dead: Mobile phones in a Sepik society", 223-38. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12090 Petronella Vaarzon-Morel "Pointing the Phone: Transforming Technologies and Social Relations among Warlpiri", 239-55. DOI: 10.1111/taja.12091 For anyone who is interested there is a related collection of papers, more aimed at social life on the internet, at Global Media Journal Australian Edition http://www.hca.uws.edu.au/gmjau/?issues=volume-7-issue-1-2013 Notely, Marshall, & Salazar "Guest Editorial" Crystal Abidin "Cyber-BFFs: Assessing women's 'perceived interconnectedness' in Singapore's commercial lifestyle blog industry". Rebekah Cupitt "Phantasms collide: Navigating video-mediated communication in the Swedish workplace". Elaine Lally "Creative interactions and improvable digital objects in cloud-based musical collaboration". Theresa Lynn Petray "Self-writing a movement and contesting indigeneity: Being an Aboriginal activist on social media". Rhian Morgan "Death in Space and the Piracy Debate: Negotiating ethics and ontology in Entropia Universe". Tanya Notley, Juan Salazar & Alexandra Crosby "Online video translation and subtitling: examining emerging practices and their implications for media activism in South East Asia". Jonathan Paul Marshall "The Mess of Information and the Order of Doubt". UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.