FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 5 May 2010 M/C - Media and Culture is proud to present issue two in volume thirteen of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ 'ambient' - Edited by Luke Jaaniste Ambience is all around us. Wherever we are. Conditioned as we are as being-in-the-world, we are always surrounded. A surrounding that affords meaningful pathways and places of action and thought, that is intelligently geared up with us. The fundamental surroundings might be the earth itself, upon which multiple worlds, spaces, zones, nets, webs, districts, precincts and the like occupy our lives, as we occupy them. Ambience can be contrasted with salience. What is salient is what is of immediate interest and attention. Before us right now, taken up. Hopefully, dear reader, these words you are reading have particular salience for you. Right now. But when something is taken up in our field of attention and action, there is so much that remains, always already there, in the background, in the periphery, in the ether, in the air. So when Brian Eno famously coined the term 'ambient music' in the 1970s - and triggered off a whole raft of terms like ambient video, ambient art, ambient architecture, ambient tv, ambient media, ambient marketing, ambient journalism, ambient computing, ambient screens, ambient poetics and ambient literature - he was doing something a little odd. Making ambience salient. In his music and in his discourse about it. Ambience has been palpably in place, since the dawn of time, but as way of talking about the world is helps gear us towards the all-around and how so much of being human is conditioned and affected by our surrounds, in a age when place and place-making has changed in dramatic ways, locally and globally. In this issue, we ask: what ideas and interaction take place in ambience? =========================================================================== Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2010/11: 'deaf': article deadline 30 Apr. 2010, release date 30 June 2010 'waste': article deadline 25 June 2010, release date 25 Aug. 2010 'pig': article deadline 20 Aug. 2010, release date 20 Oct. 2010 'coalition': article deadline 15 Oct. 2010, release date 15 Dec. 2010 'doubt': article deadline 21 Jan. 2011, release date 23 Mar. 2011 'diaspora': article deadline 4 Mar. 2011, release date 4 May 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal 13.2 is now online: <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. Previous issues of M/C Journal on various topics are also still available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit M/C Journal and M/C Reviews at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All contributors are available for media contacts: mc@media-culture.org.au. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M/C Journal Vol. 13, No. 2 (2010) - 'ambient' Table of Contents http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/issue/view/ambient Editorial -------- The Ambience of Ambience Luke Oliver Jaaniste Feature -------- Ambient Thinking: Or, Sweating over Theory Alison Bartlett Articles -------- Ambient Anomie in the Virtualised Landscape? Autonomy, Surveillance and Flows in the 2020 Streetscape Bruce Arnold, Margalit Levin From TV to Twitter: How Ambient News Became Ambient Journalism Alfred Hermida Oblique Strategies for Ambient Journalism Alex Burns The Constant Murmur of Data Pau Waelder Populating the Ambient Space of Texts: The Intimate Graffiti of Doodles. Proposals Toward a Theory David Allen Ensminger “A little bit more mysterious…”: Ambience and Art in the Dark Natalia Radywyl Faith Tweets: Ambient Religious Communication and Microblogging Rituals Pauline Hope Cheong An Ambience of Power? Challenges Inherent in the Role of the Public Transport Transit Officer Christine Teague, Lelia Green, David Leith -- M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://produsage.org/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns@qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J