I am organizing a session at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference June 29-July 2 in Tampere, Finland. I invite both grad students and faculty to submit papers; the session listing is posted below. If you wish to submit to the session, email a 150-word abstracts of your paper, or full papers to me; papers are due by Jan. 31. For more information about the conference, see the Crossroads web site at www.crossroads2002.com. I see this within the context of working towards or discussing the nature of a 'critical Internet Studies' per the round table talk at the conference in Minneapolis. -------------------- Doing Cultural Studies in Cyberspace Considerations of communication technologies in modern cultures have been instrumental in rise and development of Cultural Studies. Thus far, however, the scholarly response within Cultural Studies to analyzing Internet technologies has not been as strong or systematic as with (for example) television. Although a great deal of Internet- focused research has been multidisciplinary, a Cultural Studies approach has really not been achieved despite the fact that a recent wave of critical work aimed at demystifying the role of capitalism in controlling innovation, distribution, and discourse in regards to new media technologies can perhaps be seen as a beginning. What does Cultural Studies have to say (and to do) regarding the growing presence of Internet technologies in the everyday lives of many people in communities around the world? Papers that explore the contextualities and contingencies of Internet use and those that explore the role of Cultural Studies in rearticulating 'cyberculture studies' or 'cyberspace' in general are invited for participation in this panel. Organiser: Jonathan Lillie The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Mass Communication 129 Windsor Cir. Chapel Hill North Carolina, USA 27516 E-mail: jlillie@email.unc.edu