Julian Dibbell, author of Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot (Basic, 2006), and My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (Henry Holt, 1999), will speak in the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series during the 2009 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), on Friday, May 23, 2009, at 4:30 pm, in Ohio State Room, in Downtown Chicago Marriott. Dibbell’s lecture is entitled, “Kittens, Kittens, and the Crisis of Online-Cultural Propriety: An Exercise in Memetic Literacy. The Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series is sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (http://www.cccsir.org ) and supported by the International Communication Association (ICA, http://www.icahdq.org ). The lecture series is designed to bring leading Internet thinkers to the ICA Conference to promote Internet research to foster collaborations with communication researchers. For questions and comments about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen@uni.edu .