The soon to be launched online peer-reviewed journal, NMEDIAC:The Journal of New Media & Culture, is accepting paper submissions for its first and second issues. NMEDIAC has adopted the mission of publishing peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of New Media apparatuses. In relation to previous work, NMEDIAC hopes to provide an intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media are theorized and rigorously explored within both global and local contingencies of the present and past. Therefore, papers that take Cultural Studies and 'critical Internet Studies' approaches to analyzing new media are encouraged. The submission deadline for the first issue is January 1, 2002. All submissions received after that will be considered for subsequent issues. Papers should be submitted in APA style by email in .doc, .pdf, .html, or another format to Jonathan Lillie at: jlillie@email.unc.edu Audiovisual new media art or presentations may be submitted or proposed at any time. Preference is placed on pieces that are submitted along with, or incorporate, scholarly work or that emphasize general or specific themes within new media studies, such as new media as experienced culture. A special issue on new media art is in the works, and we invite preliminary ideas for audiovisual pieces or papers on this broad topic to also be submitted. Please visit the NMEDIAC web site for further information and for the launch of the journal on January 15, 2002: http://ibiblio.org/nmediac